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What Jesus Started
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What Jesus Started

The World-Changing Power of the Local Church

Ellen Vaughn
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Be reinvigorated by the power of the gospel through compelling stories of God’s ongoing work through his people around the world.

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Reignite your faith in the power of the gospel through remarkable stories of God’s work in the global church. Discover how the church that Jesus started over 2,000 years ago continues today: around the world, in your church and in your life!

Join bestselling storyteller Ellen Vaughn on a global journey to uncover compelling accounts of the gospel’s power in everyday life. You’ll be reinvigorated as you see, with fresh eyes, God’s present work in the world through his people. 

Vaughn invites you into the stories of a former would-be suicide bomber who now pastors in Turkey, Christians in war-weary Ukraine bringing hope to their neighbours, a Rwandan pastor who forgave the man who killed his family, and many more. 

As you encounter each story, you will…

  • Be re-energised by the power of the gospel to transform lives
  • Marvel at the work of the Spirit in the church from the book of Acts to the present day
  • Experience renewed excitement for your local community as you ask God who he would have you be and what he would have you do in your church

Through this powerful book, ordinary brothers and sisters in Christ from the East and Global South refresh and remind you of what is true and good about the gospel and God’s people.

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Contents

  • PART 1: What Jesus Started

    1. Whispers from the East
    2. Fishbowls and First-Century Faith
    3. Not a Religion
    4. The Church That Jesus Started
    5. The Community That Helps the Desperate
    6. The Ultimate Half-Time Guy
    7. The Electric Church
    8. Minarets or Crosses? The Church That Advances
    9. The Generous Church and Strawberries in the Desert
    10. The Antioch Church
    11. The Church That Is Out on the Streets with the People
    12. The Church That Sows Seed in Hard Soil
    13. The Community of Reconciliation
    14. The Church That Comforts the Afflicted
    15. The Church That Does Good While Weary
    16. The Countercultural Church
    17. The Bloodied Church, Unbroken

    PART 2: What About Us?

    18. Idols in the West
    19. Comfortable or Comforted?
    20. Control or Trust?
    21. Inconvenient Christianity
    22. Go to Church!
    23. The End of the Story

Specification

Contributors Ellen Vaughn
ISBN 9781802544442
Format Hardback with jacket
First published September 2026
Dimensions 135mm x 216mm x 15mm
Weight 0.26 kg
Language English
Pages 208
Publisher The Good Book Company
Endorsements

Alistair Begg

Bible Teacher, Truth For Life; Previous Senior Pastor, Parkside Church, Cleveland; Author, Pray Big and The Christian Manifesto

“Clear, compelling, and exciting. Ellen provides a much-needed reminder that local churches living in and by the power of God are the way He displays His glory and goodness to a broken world.”

Joni Eareckson Tada

Joni and Friends International Disability Center

“Relaying the true-life accounts of simple believers who labor in small, dark corners of the earth, Ellen shows us once again how ‘weakness and humility’ open the way for God to perform His most powerful, kingdom-shaping work. The faith-forging stories you will read in this exceptional book will stir you—as they’ve stirred me—to roll up our sleeves and do the hard, modest labor that will impact our communities for Christ.”

John Stonestreet

President, the Colson Center for Christian Worldview

"The apostle Paul said that God’s promises are ‘yes’ and ‘amen.’ One of His promises was to build the church, and, as Ellen Vaughn describes in these pages, He has. The stories she tells should inspire and encourage us to be the church where He has placed us, resting in the promise that ‘the gates of hell shall not prevail,’ but the church certainly will.”

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