"Love, Acceptance & Forgiveness" by Pastor Jerry Cook

How can YOU be a healing force in the lives of those in bondage to addictions?

In this long-time bestseller now revised and update, authors Pastor Jerry Cook and Stanley C. Baldwin suggest that it is only when believers admit their own brokenness that they can love, accept and forgive those who are hurting around them and put out the welcome mat to their community. They offer clear teaching about the Church in a hurting world; and as veteran leaders who practice these principles, they speak from experience, not theory. Through touching true stories and practical guidelines for connecting with fallen, sinful people, Cook and Baldwin announce the good news. The church is not broken and it is the broken people who can change the world.

From the Back Cover:

How Can the Church Be a Healing Force in the World?

As Christians, we need to understand who the church should be in this hurting world: people who are redeemed, filled with the Holy Spirit and equipped to serve to meet needs everywhere in Jesus’ name.  That concept of the church will affect everything from the way the pastor preaches to the way the building is designed. 

It will direct the church away from the “professionals” and into the hands of laypeople. And as these laypeople step into roles of service and admit their own brokenness, they will find that they can love, accept and forgive those who are hurting around them and put out the "welcome mat" in their community. Love, Acceptance and Forgiveness is a book full of hope and help for everyone — pastors, homemakers, taxi drivers, executives, blue collar, white collar, no collar [ex-addicts, ex-alcoholics] — who wants to adopt a vision for individual ministry in the church.