More About The Book
Powered for Purpose: The Barnabas Effect is a biblically based work intended to help Christians trace God’s mission and purpose throughout His Word. It is written to help followers recognize that the story also chronicles the interference of a spiritual enemy who wants to plunder the resources God has so carefully hidden in His children.
Goals of the book are to:
- Remind the Christian church of the origin of spiritual inheritance and the mission and resources attached to it.
- Expose the enemy of God’s purpose who actively seeks to thwart it by attacking God’s people.
- Ignite a passion within the church for awakening gifts, talents, and energies intended for Kingdom purposes.
- Explore biblical models intended to discover, protect, and nurture the purposes God has placed in people through strategies coined as “The Barnabas Effect”.
- Encourage the modern church to pursue the purposes God has placed in people so that beautiful gifts, talents, and abilities can grow and be nourished for a higher yield of Kingdom fruit.
What is the Barnabas Effect?
“The Barnabas Effect is an effect realized when a person has experiences that ignite or revive potential and connect him to purpose. It is achieved through processes like intentional mining, resuscitation, advocacy, investment, facilitation, and encouragement.”
Let’s explore this simple, but powerful model in Powered for Purpose: The Barnabas Effect.
Who should read this book?
- Church leaders, ministry teams, and Christian growth groups.
- Christians who want to encourage each other to produce more fruit for the Kingdom.
- Christians who find their efforts under spiritual attack.
- Anyone who wants to pursue a more purposeful, Kingdom-driven life.
Why this book matters:
“Countless Christians with innumerable gifts and talents are displaced from their true purposes or they fall latent in accomplishing them. More ominously, unthinkable numbers of others have never even met the God who designed them and gave them their beautiful gifts. It is no stretch of the truth to state that perhaps the greatest mission of the contemporary church is to take back what Satan wants to plunder. Thankfully, retrieval is possible with the cache of wisdom God has provided in His Word.”
