{"product_id":"book-2duc","title":"Hand to the Plow","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYou've been sitting in the pew long enough. It's time to pick up the plow.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat if the reason the church isn't multiplying disciples has nothing to do with money, buildings, or better programs, and everything to do with the fact that nobody ever showed you \u003cem\u003ehow to follow the Jesus Pattern of disciple-making\u003c\/em\u003e?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is for the \u003cstrong\u003ebusiness owner\u003c\/strong\u003e whose conversations at the water cooler feel like more than small talk, but who has never been shown what to do next. The \u003cstrong\u003estay-at-home mom\u003c\/strong\u003e whose neighborhood looks more like a mission field every day, but who doesn't know how to step into it. The \u003cstrong\u003eyoung adult\u003c\/strong\u003e who is completely done with a version of Christianity that asks them to \u003cem\u003ecome to church\u003c\/em\u003e but rarely trains them to \u003cem\u003ebe\u003c\/em\u003e the church.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's for the \u003cstrong\u003eburned-out volunteer\u003c\/strong\u003e who has served faithfully for years and still feels like something essential is missing. The \u003cstrong\u003ebivocational elder\u003c\/strong\u003e doing ministry in the marketplace every single day without a title or a paycheck. And it is absolutely for that \u003cstrong\u003e72-year-old woman\u003c\/strong\u003e who has more wisdom, more relational capital, and more love than she gives herself credit for, who just needs someone to tell her that she already has \u003cem\u003eeverything she needs\u003c\/em\u003e to do what Jesus asked her to do.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Western church has done a remarkable job of producing sincere, faithful, devoted believers. And a far less impressive job producing disciple-makers. The result? Pews full of people waiting for someone else to do what Jesus commissioned \u003cem\u003eall of us\u003c\/em\u003e to do. The Acts Gap is real, and it is not a passion problem. It is a pathway problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eHand to the Plow\u003c\/em\u003e, Kevin Beasley hands you the ancient pathway\u003c\/strong\u003e, the one Jesus walked with twelve ordinary, unimpressive, unqualified people on the dusty roads of Galilee. The one Paul carried from city to city, leaving multiplying communities of faith everywhere he went. The one the early church practiced so naturally, so organically, with such breathtaking effectiveness that within three centuries the entire known world had been touched by it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INAudio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":67953474208048,"sku":"BD2duc","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/2duc-Square-cover.webp?v=1791311893","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-2duc","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}