David Wasserman served the church in a time that used to be interesting, difficult, and made development for the dominion. yet he additionally observed church leaders who didn't pay attention, snigger jointly, or love sufficient of God's international and other people. This truth is undesirable for the gospel--yet there is wish. it really is coming within the kind of leaders who're taking the time to hear conscientiously, staying humble and funny approximately themselves, and dealing tougher than ever to embrace a piece extra of God's love, justice, and peace. Listen extra, snicker usually, Love Always bargains recommendation to destiny church leaders from the ramblings and reflections of 1 who observed firsthand the embattlements, wanderings, and unravelings of an establishment attempting to remodel itself for a brand new time in God's grace.

"Listen extra, snort frequently, Love Always isn't just the modis operandi of the writer, it's also a reflective selection of pithy editorials, soul-stirring sermons, and generative questions on best and loving in tumultuous instances. It serves as a useful compendium, culled from years of pastoral management, of wit and knowledge that's bound to enlighten and brighten up not only church councils but additionally any leaders looking to be more beneficial fans of Christ on the planet He nonetheless involves save."
--Sue Westfall, Director, Macedonian Ministry, Atlanta, GA

"Dave organizes feedback from a large swath of his profession to aid church councils think of their current-day roles. Reflections finishing every one bankruptcy supply nutrients for notion. In a time of reformation for the church and its leaders, you have to have an excellent feel of the place now we have been in order that we will be able to navigate the longer term properly and well."
--Sallie Watson, Missional Presbyter/Stated Clerk, Presbytery of Santa Fe, Albuquerque, NM

"Dave Wasserman's brief essays written for church leaders are either effortless to learn and proposal frightening. each one bankruptcy, full of knowledge cast from the author's adventure within the trenches, serves as an invaluable consultant for church councils and classes. Readers also will locate this publication a useful asset in changing into extra intentional approximately their religion and repair to the church. The name says all of it. Heed that advice."
--Ted Walkenhorst, Ruling Elder, Presbyterian Church united states, Philadelphia, PA

"The layout of Dave's ebook takes us past examining the forged insights of a church chief to enticing us in wrestling with the problems nonetheless dealing with the church."
--John M. Nelsen, pastor, college Presbyterian Church, El Paso, TX

David Wasserman served as a minister within the Presbyterian Church for thirty-nine years, twenty-five of them in Michigan, Oklahoma, Texas, and Arizona. He has led paintings groups in any respect degrees of the Presbyterian Church (USA) and statewide ecumenical meetings of church buildings (OK and TX). he's the writer of Azure Wind: classes for Ministry from less than Sail (2006).