Why Churches Die

Jan 14–15, 2008 - comments: 2

If you’re a frequent listener of For Faith & Family, you may remember our friend Ergun Caner from our past programs about Islam. Ergun was raised as a Sunni Muslim here in the US and converted to Christianity as a youth. Dr. Caner is a former student of Dr. Land’s and is currently the Dean of the Liberty Theological Seminary.

Ergun is here today to talk about his book, Why Churches Die. He says, “This is the purpose of this work. To identify the diseases that besiege local churches, excise the poisons, and bring church back to the biblical model… joyous and encouraging.” (p. 2)

Dr. Caner has a passion for sharing the gospel with people of other faiths. In fact, he spends much of his time debating Muslim, Buddhist and Hindi scholars. He’ll help us take a closer look at how we can learn to better communicate our faith to these people groups.

topic(s): Faith, Bible, Ministry

2 comments (post your own) feed

1 On Jan 16th, 2008, at 8:44pm, Rev. Eric Payne wrote:

I a prison chaplain at a NY State maximum security facility.  I caught part of the program featuring Dr. Caner.  I am interested to know if he has written any material regarding Islam.  I’ld be interested in obtaining that material for our reading shelf. Also, could your ministry send us a copy of his book Why Churches Die

Thank you,
Rev. Payne
Protestant Chaplain
Great Meadow Correctional Facility
Box 51, 11739 State Route No.22
Comstock, NY 12821

2 On Jan 17th, 2008, at 8:50am, Sulyn Wilkins wrote:

Dr. Caner has written other books, and some of these are available in our Family Bookstore online.  Please check there on our website, and you may find what you are looking for by searching under his name.  We do not carry any inventory of books in our office, thus we direct everyone to our online bookstore as noted above.  Thank you for contacting us.

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