In all Things, Love: Escaping the Church Schism Cycle

By Jimmie Davis Compton Jr

The American church is fracturing exactly as it did sixteen hundred years ago, and history shows a way through.

Inside American congregations today, three groups increasingly stand at odds: Christian nationalists convinced the nation itself must be reclaimed for Christ, Christian activists convinced the church must lead the fight for justice, and carnal Christians quietly disengaging from both, worn down by the conflict. In All Things, Love names this fracture honestly, then does something few books on the subject attempt. It turns to history for an answer.

Drawing striking, well researched parallels to the church schisms of the fourth and fifth centuries A.D., Pastor Jimmie Compton shows that the American church is not facing an unprecedented crisis. It is facing a familiar one, and the early church's response offers both a caution and a guide. In All Things, Love makes the case for a path back to unity, grounded not in choosing a side of the current cultural battle, but in returning to the primacy of Jesus's kingdom message.

Written by a pastor who has spent a career inside both the theological and human sides of church conflict. Jimmie Compton served over thirty years as Senior Pastor of Hope Bible Fellowship Church in Detroit. He holds a master's degree in Pastoral Counseling from Ashland Theological Seminary and worked as a licensed therapist for twenty five years. His service with the Detroit Police Chaplain Corps and Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries, combined with a six year research project into Early African Church History now taught as a two year curriculum at Hope Institute, gives this book a vantage point few authors bring to the subject.

This book is for:
Pastors and church leaders currently navigating division within their own congregations
Christians troubled by the growing polarization between Christian nationalist, activist, and complacent factions within American churches
Readers interested in early church history and the schisms of the fourth and fifth centuries
Seminary students, church counselors, and denominational leaders seeking frameworks for unity amid cultural division

If you are watching your own church community pull apart along these very lines, In All Things, Love offers something rare. Not another side to take, but a way through.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0940123088
• ISBN13: 9780940123083
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Infoware
• Length: 68 Pages
• Weight: 0.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.0" x 8.0"