3 Books About Loving Your Neighbor for Your Summer Reading List

What’s on your summer reading list? Summer is a great time to intentionally connect with your neighbors, and there are many books and other resources on the importance of being present in our neighborhoods and loving our neighbors! Here are three suggestions to add to your summer reading list:

Joining God, Remaking Church, Changing the World: The New Shape of the Church in Our Time by Alan J. Roxburgh

In this book, Roxburgh invites us to “to follow the Spirit into our neighborhoods, re-engage with the mission of God, and re-imagine the whole enterprise of church.” It provides a helpful overview of the foundational posture and parameters of our Go Local initiatives.  

The Bees of Rainbow Falls: Finding Faith, Imagination, and Delight in Your neighborhood  by Preston Pouteaux

This book “reminds us that we matter to our community, that goodness is found all around us, and that new life emerges out of the small and sublime.” As a pastor and a beekeeper, Pouteaux inspires and challenges us to step out our front doors and join God in our neighborhoods.

Don't Invite Them to Church: Moving from a Come and See to a Go and Be Church by Karen Wilk

This guidebook is designed to “help you, your small group, or your church get started in neighborhood ministry and missional living. It includes ideas for group meetings, practices to help you develop a better spiritual life, and real-life ideas for reaching out to your neighborhood. If you really want to know your neighbors and love them like Jesus would, don't invite them to church. BE the church.”

Which books on living missionally in your neighborhoods have you been reading? Drop a comment and let us know!

Karen Wilk is Resonate Global Mission’s Go Local Catalyzer