Being a Christian is not just about future salvation and a personal relationship with Jesus. In this enthralling book Chick ill explores how followers of Jesus can also grow in the community of believers while constructively engaging with the culture of our times. Packed with stories and illustrations, this book explores how Christians can live life to the best.

Chick Yuill

MOVING IN THE RIGHT CIRCLES

Walking in the company of Jesus

Growing in the community of believers

Engaging with the culture of the times

Looking to the coming of the King

Foreword

Of Tuareg fires, whole life and a Scottish rebel

Up, up and away?

The rock concert

The real deal

The resurrection adventure

The right place to begin

Going Deeper

1. Invitation

Starting from the wrong place

Going back to the beginning

Time change

Good news

Kingdom come

About turn

Centre point

2. Crucifixion

Couldn't we do without the cross?

Why did Jesus have to die?

What's the purpose of the cross?

Why are we called to carry the cross?

No deals

No limits

No loss

3. Imitation

What do we make of the Gospels?

What do the Gospels make of us?

Becoming a disciple

Becoming like Jesus

Displaying the likeness

4. Incarnation

A great try

A great hymn

A great lesson

5. A worshipping community

Church – who needs it?

The new community

The new humanity

The central ceremony

Remembering our roots

Receiving grace

Recognizing the risen Jesus

Relating to each other

Returning creation to God

Reaching for the future

The bonds of family

6. A dying community

Today is dying day

Dying to maintenance and rising to mission

Dying to invitation and rising to incarnation

Dying to membership and rising to discipleship

Dying to closed shop and rising to open house

7. A learning community

Listening to the Master

Learning together

The learning cycle

Meaning-filled rituals

Mentoring relationships

Monologues and responses

The bottom line

8. A witnessing community

A church for all eternity

The multiracial welcome of grace

The multicoloured wisdom of God

The multidimensional witness of the church

A church for our time

9. Engaging intelligently

Unprecedented upheaval

Unresolved opposites

Unsettling changes

10. Engaging Christianly

Sturdy crafts or supple fish

Seeking deep spirituality

Avoiding narrow piety

Demonstrating generous integrity

11. What will be, will be

The expectation of victory: changing the song

The motivation of our efforts: the reign of God

The foundation of our hope: the resurrection of Jesus

The consummation of the kingdom: the return of the King

The Good Book Stall

As Jesus prepared to ascend into heaven, and return to His father, he gave what is known as the ‘Great Commission’. He told the disciples to ‘go and make disciples of all nations’, despite this discipleship is one of the weaknesses of all denominations with it easier to make converts than disciples. In Moving In The Right Circles Chick Yuill attempts to help the church correct this, using the image of four concentric circles that need to be in place for us to be able to grow and act effectively as Christians. These four circles cover the areas of our personal life as a Christian, our membership of a congregation, our engagement with the culture around us, and how we prepare for Christ's return. This though is the weakness of the book – it is too individual focussed. The subtitle of the book is Embrace the Discipleship Adventure and sums up the idea that the book is for individual Christians who want to grow more, to be (to use an illustration from the book) disciples not members. But what if you are in a congregation that has not got it yet or realises there is a problem and wants to move from people being members to disciples? As the former Education and Training team leader for the church I attend I found little to help the church change how it did things, to help people ‘embrace the discipleship adventure’ as part of the body, to put the four circles of authentic Christian life in place. There is also the problem of Yuill's theology that comes from his time as a leader in the Salvation Army with its Armianistic foundation which, especially in his teaching on the Second Coming as well as other theological points, may put people off. Even with these problems I agree with the comment by Rob Parsons that this is an ‘important book’ and would encourage people to push past the points of disagreement and think through the challenges raised.

Moving in the Right Circles

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