Tell It Like It Is: Reclaiming the Practice of Testimony - Paperback

by Lillian Daniel (Author)

Lillian Daniel shares how her congregation re-appropriated the practice of testimony one Lenten season, a practice that would eventually revitalize their worship and transform their congregational culture. The experience strengthened lay leadership, fostered more intimate community, and drew the congregation closer to God. The book features the testimonies worshipers heard and reflections from both those who spoke and those who listened to these stories about God at work in the world.

Author Biography

Pastor, writer, and teacher, Lillian Daniel has served as senior minister of the First Congregational Church of Glen Ellyn, IL since 2004. She is an editor at large for the Christian Century Magazine and a contributing editor at Leadership Journal, and has taught preaching at Chicago Theological Seminary, the University of Chicago Divinity School and at her alma mater, Yale Divinity School. She is the author of When Spiritual But Not Religious Is Not Enough: Seeing God in Surprising Places, Even the Church andco-author of This Odd and Wondrous Calling: The Public and Private Lives of Two Ministers with Martin B. Copenhaver. You can visit her website at http: //www.lilliandaniel.com/.