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A Word from Malcolm
Building Healthy Churches in East Asia
“In every aspect, our overall unhealthiness led to a very bleak situation in our church. Therefore, I decided to set aside everything in order to study each LeaderSource course diligently, take detailed notes, take advantage of every learning opportunity, and take immediate action after learning. I started with self-repentance, strictly comparing myself to the content of each learning and identifying where I was unhealthy and needed change and adjustment. When I learned about the 5Cs and the Four Dynamics, I was overjoyed ‒ it was like receiving timely rain! I felt that there was a way out for the church. For years, I had been looking for a way for the church to be revived, increase in numbers, and improve. I had no methods, direction, or vision, but now the “5Cs/4Ds” gave me a path, guiding me on how to build healthy lives and ministries. I now knew how to build, transform, and renew.”
The Fourth Watch
We’re having a special introductory sale on Malcolm’s brand new book, The Fourth Watch! For a limited time, this book will be available for $2.99 on Kindle and for $5.55 in paperback.
If you have walked with God for any length of time, you have known seasons of suffering. The storm came when you did not expect it. The fire burned hotter than you thought you could bear. The wilderness stretched on far longer than you thought you could endure. In the silence, you may have wondered whether God had forgotten you.
This book is for those seasons.
Much of the Church today has been taught to expect a Christian life of victory, blessing and comfort, in which suffering is a problem to be solved. But Scripture presents suffering as normal, designed by God and full of His purpose. It is part of the path on which we come to know Him deeply. The cross comes before the crown, and the darkness before the glory.
If you are in the fourth watch of your own night – tired, overwhelmed and uncertain – this book invites you into a deeper walk with God through the hardest times of your life.
The answer to every storm is Christ in the middle of it, whether or not He delivers us from it. He is in you by His Holy Spirit, and He is for you. Look at Him.
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