Misfits Welcome: Find Yourself in Jesus and Bring the World Along for the Ride
By (Author) Matthew Barnett
Thomas Nelson Publishers
Thomas Nelson Publishers
27th January 2015
United States
General
Non Fiction
253
Hardback
240
Width 147mm, Height 220mm, Spine 25mm
330g
Being a misfit does not disqualify you from a dynamic life-it prepares you for it.Matthew Barnett knows a thing or two about misfits. As founder of the Dream Center in Los Angeles, a 24-hour church that ministers to 35,000 hurting people a week, Barnett has seen a little of everything. Gangsters, addicts, orphans, taggers, cutters, the sick, the suffering, the hopeless . . . all the misfits of the world come through the church's doors in search of hope.But when Barnett first arrived in LA, it was he who felt like the misfit. In Misfits Welcome, Pastor Barnett shares the simple, life-changing lesson he has learned from twenty years of ministering to the forgotten: Being a misfit prepares you to do the work of the Lord. Misfits Welcome is not just about embracing the misfits around us-it is about embracing the misfits within us, and channeling our inner misfit for the glory of God.
Matthew Barnett is pastor of Angelus Temple and the Dream Center in Los Angeles, CA, the first of 150 Dream Centers launched around the world. He is also the bestselling author of The Church That Never Sleeps and The Cause Within You. Barnett is married with two children.