Uniting Church & Home: A Blueprint for Rebuilding Church Community

This is a very practical, to the point, why and how-to book about building the local church ministry around God's plan for the family. Wallace writes "Strong households are the core of strongs churches, and strong churches are the foundation for outreach to others." He lays out a plan for raising your children in the faith that truly passes on the rich heritage of Christianity. In a generation that has gone crazy trying to make the church run like a business rather than a community of the redeemed in covenant relationship to Christ and each other, this book is a breath of fresh air. Wallace lays out a four-part vision for building families in the context of the church as family. Rejecting age-segregated, individualized Christianity, If you like this book, check out R. C. Sproul Jr.'s book Family Practice, where he argues for a similar idea but more clearly covenantal. After you have read these then get a copy of Douglas Wilson's Mother Kirk.

Over the past few years, my husband and I have been growing in our uncomfortableness with the way our church and most churches have organized themselves. Without understanding why, or what it was we were sensing, we began to discover that what we were growing to want and believe in, was something very different than what contemporary churches were offering. We treasure our family, and wanted to find a way to worship, learn and grow together, not just at home, but in our church as well. The segration of ages was disturbing to us because of what we were seeing happen. We couldn't put a finger on it, but something didn't feel right. After reading this book, we were so encouraged! Most people didn't understand what we tried to explain to them because they had never felt like anything was wrong with the current way of doing things. And unfortunately, most still don't. This book clearly lays out the very things we had been trying to understand, and gives great biblical insight into why we need to become churches that are uniting families, and not pulling them away from each other.I could never even begin to explain how much reading this book meant to us, or how much it taught us. Our prayer now, is that someone, somewhere in our community will be receptive to the ideas in the book, and desire to become a church that doesn't segregate, but joins families together in worship and learning.Eric Wallace has written a tremendous book that I hope you will read!

What a blessing to find a book that verbalizes the very things we have been feeling for so many years! The household approach to worship, teaching and ministery is exactly what is needed to bring our families back to living out their faith together in a manner that witnesses to the world.It was with such relief that we read this book. Churches need to support the role of the families, and families in turn need to support the church. When these two are working to build each other up, a beautiful relationship that doesn't pull the family away from each other, but toward each other will result.I wholeheartedly recommend this book to any family, household and pastor that senses a need for a different kind of balance between church and home, one that brings the family together AND stimulates the life of their church, all while eliminating segregation between the ages and encourages biblical roles and responsibilities.

Uniting Church and Home presents an old and honorable formula for today's families and churches to learn anew--truly structuring the modern-day church to strengthen families instead of undermining them. Eric Wallace lays the groundwork for understanding what paradigm shift needs to be made and how to do it. I recommend that all pastors read this. I also recommend that every family looking for answers to why "church" seems to be more of a hindrance than a help read this book. Be prepared to have your thinking challenged. Having come from a church that has made the blueprint work, I know that it can make a wonderful difference in the life of church and family.

Eric Wallace has hit upon a deep heart-desire of many Christian families to be a part of a real functioning body of fellow believers who value the family as a unit rather than divide it into component parts. In this day of fractured families, Eric has pointed the way clearly for the church and families to be united in their life and mission. This is a vital message for all Christians! The next generation depends upon it! Must reading!