What Jesus Started

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Author: Ellen Vaughn
ISBN: 9781802544442

The World-Changing Power of the Local Church

Ellen Vaughn

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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.

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

Joni Eareckson Tada Joni and Friends International Disability Center

"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.”

John Stonestreet President, the Colson Center for Christian Worldview