Gaining By Losing: Why the Future Belongs to Churches that Send

J.D. Greear

Jul 2015 · Sold by Zondervan

About this ebook

People are leaving the church J.D. Greear pastors. Big givers. Key volunteers. Some of his best leaders and friends. And that’s exactly how he wants it to be.

When Jesus gave his disciples the Great Commission, he revealed that the key for reaching the world with the gospel is found in sending, not gathering. Though many churches focus time and energy on attracting people and counting numbers, the real mission of the church isn’t how many people you can gather. It’s about training up disciples and then sending them out. The true measure of success for a church should be its sending capacity, not its seating capacity.

But there is a cost to this. To see ministry multiply, we must release the seeds God has placed in our hands. And to do that, we must ask ourselves whether we are concerned more with building our kingdom or God’s.

In Gaining By Losing, J.D. Greear unpacks ten plumb lines that you can use to reorient your church’s priorities around God’s mission to reach a lost world. The good news is that you don’t need to choose between gathering or sending. Effective churches can, and must, do both.

Ratings and reviews

I was talking to a pastor friend about God calling me to preach but I'm just waiting for His time and he gave me this book. After the first couple pages I made sure to grab a notebook and pen to write down some of what JD said but also I had so many ideas that were inspired by his writing! I recommend this book to anyone in ministry because it talks about how the very core of the church should be to make disciples and send them out. So if all leaders were on the same page that would be ideal for every church. I dont read much but this was a page turner!!

This book is simple yet very convicting and applicable

About the author

J.D. Greear is pastor of The Summit Church in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, and the 62nd president of the Southern Baptist Convention. The Summit Church has been ranked by Outreach Magazine as one of the fastest-growing churches in the United States, with a weekly attendance of over 10,000. Greear has a Ph.D. in systematic theology from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the author of many books, including Gaining by Losing, Jesus Continued, and Not God Enough. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife, Veronica, and their four children.