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A powerful tool to review Baptist history, understand our present situation as Baptists, and guide us into the future as people of God. Personal, transparent and authentic insights to be shared, understood and embraced as we take next steps in local congregations and among believers in a 21st century world. --Edward Hammett, Author of Reaching People Under 30 While Keeping People Over 60 and Church and Clergy Coach for Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina Here is a compilation of history and formative aspects of the Fellowship. And, here also is a set of spiritual practices to enhance your prayerful support for our faith community. This is a wonderful resource for engaging our past, praying for our present and anticipating a rich future. --Bo Prosser, Coordinator of Organizational Relationships, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, Atlanta, GA This book is a treasure of information and insights, offering a mix of storytelling, history, and contemporary cultural challenges, while bringing together some of the best thinkers in spiritual formation to offer practical steps in our way forward. I look forward to sharing this book with small groups who want to better understand our Baptist identity and to reshape and deepen the way we understand discipleship, helping us become more aware of the practices that form us together into the people God is calling us to become. If you are like me and need to re-claim and own the faith we have inherited and to be encouraged to set off on a renewed adventure with God, this book is one I highly recommend. --Tommy Bratton, Minister of Christian Formation, First Baptist Church, Asheville, NC Taking readers on a deep dive into the richness of our story as a community of Cooperative Baptists, Terry Maples weaves history with hope. His gifts for seeing the spiritual dimensions in the story of our Fellowship's life together ought not to be missed. He is awake to what matters most in the life of faith. This book is an invitation to us all to do the same: to see and to sense that the Christ who has brought us safe thus far in our first 25 years is the same Christ who is leading us still. --Stephen Cook, Pastor, Second Baptist Church, Memphis, TN Terry and Gene have cast a vision for the still-unfolding story of CBF that takes seriously the formation part of Forming Together. It is a practical call - complete with some helpful guidance - to move beyond business as usual toward a renewed church culture where the emphasis is on spiritual practices that help followers live in the way of Jesus so that they become agents of healing and transformation for God's world. That's a movement I want to be a part of! Johnny Sears, Director, The Academy for Spiritual Formation & Emerging Ministries, The Upper Room, Nashville, TN Terry Maples and Gene Wilder provide an insightful history of the events, controversies, and divisions that led to the birth of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. More importantly the authors share the stories of freedom-loving Baptists who helped shape our identity. It's an identity shaped by the understanding that Jesus is Lord and that he is the lens through which we interpret scripture and interact with one another. CBF is about fellowship, missions, cooperating, community, forming, partnering, conversion, and so much more. This book challenges us to continue the process of conversion and notes the importance of our 'forming together' as we seek to become more like Jesus in all that we do. --David Turner, Pastor, Central Baptist Church, Richmond, VA

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