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Read About the Rose

10/28/2021

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Who needs to read Think Red?

I believe everyone who follows Jesus and shares his passion for the Church will enjoy reading Think Red. However, when I wrote the book I kept thinking about Christians, like myself, who are frustrated and bored with the status quo of consumer–based religion. There are a lot of church leaders, young and old alike, who are looking for a way to break down the old restrictive paradigms of church growth and create new expressions of Christ–like community.

Think Red has a variety of anecdotal stories . . . is there one story you enjoy telling more than others?

The context of our story is Louisville, Kentucky—the home of horse races and bourbon. I heard a news reporter ask our Mayor once which bourbon he liked best. (In our town that is a politically loaded question.) He responded like a good politician, “My favorite bourbon is the one in my hand.” That’s the way I feel about the stories I tell—The one I’m telling at the moment is always my favorite! But if I were forced to choose one story over all the others, it’s the story I tell in the introduction about the rose I discovered at the corner of 18th and Baird Street. That story sets the tone for the rest of the book.

I hope people enjoy reading the stories in Think Red as much as I enjoy telling them. But more importantly, I hope the stories inspire others to create whimsical Jesus stories of their own.
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    ​Larry Stoess is an author, public speaker, and urban church planter. He loves telling stories about how dreaming with God will empower people to make old and broken things new again. Larry and a band of friends founded the Church of the Promise in Louisville's Portland neighborhood; The Table, a pay-what-you-can community café; and Promise Housing Plus, a non-profit construction company. He has written about their experience of dreaming with God in his new book: Think Red.

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