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what church can be

an optimistic vision + some blueprints

Pastor and church planter Matthew Kruse's deeply loved hometown of Boston is a decidedly secular city where the gospel is primarily met with disinterest or disdain. The average Bostonian - wounded by one of the worst scandals in American church history and convinced that they have no need for "religion" - is out on church. And yet, by God's grace, Kruse has not only helped birth a beautiful and viable church that is thriving among the locals there, but he's also helped build a family of contextualized churches who are loving and leading New Englanders to the grace of the gospel.

In What Church Can Be, Kruse fuses theological exposition with personal memoir and a bevy of helpful blueprints into an optimistic and executable vision for leaders who are seeking to build healthy church cultures that foster gospel advance.

Matthew Kruse
- Mar 26, 2019
- 1 min read

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This excerpt is from our chapter on humility:

"My journey in planting and pastoring Seven Mile Road has been less like the scaling of some great mountain and more like Jesus taking me on a long hike straight down the side of a pyramid. Bad sermons, misreading of people’s character, false conversions, failed strategic initiatives, devastating transience, defiant teenagers, a difficult marriage: Christ has used them all to walk me and my ego to the basement apartment, that I might be finally useful to Him and His people."

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