Seven Dangers Facing Your Church

Faithful, encouraging, convicting, needed. Sanchez's Seven Dangers is all this and more. He demonstrates how Jesus' words to these seven ancient churches are as relevant to our churches and our hearts as ever. | A convicting, challenging, and comforting exposition of Christ's message to the seven churches in Revelation. Juan Sanchez combines careful exegesis with incisive pastoral application. The message given to the seven churches needs to be heard afresh today, and Sanchez's book reminds us why these words are so needed in our cultural moment. | Every church in every age needs to hear the voice of Jesus speaking to it. In these seven letters in Revelation there is encouragement, challenge, rebuke and exhortation—all from the lips of Jesus himself. Juan has done a great job of making the voice of our ascended Saviour and Master clear, vibrant and relevant for the age in which we live. May God give us ears to hear what the Spirit is saying to the church! | In Seven dangers facing your church, Juan Sanchez is not afraid to confront us with uncomfortable truths from the lips of Jesus about what it means to be church. His commitment to understanding what Jesus was saying to the first readers, combined with stunning insights into how we do exactly the same, make this a challenging read. Juan then goes further—with the experience of a pastor and a heart to win people, not arguments—he takes us to the cross, he calls us to repent, he shows us how to change.And his book is infused with evidence of how this teaching has changed him—even the fact that Jesus message to the church is printed at the start of each chapter. He is not out to impress us with clever quotes and arty poems. He simply seeks to show us what Jesus says about our church is all that matters. Simple but profound, this book provides a great spiritual health check of the life of our church. | In this book, Juan Sanchez opens the arsenal of the Spirit and uses the sword of the word of God to address the perennial concerns of the church. Seven Dangers is soul-searching and splicing and strengthening—I recommend reading it with a pen in your hand and some friends by your side. | This is a timely book given the times we are living in. Dr. Sanchez looks at Jesus’ assessment of the seven churches in the book of Revelation with biblical understanding and insightful applications. The author is a pastor with an academic mind, which allows him to search the Scriptures and bring them to the level of a serious student of the Bible in a clear and an engaging way from beginning to end. If you want to understand the condition of those churches to which these letters were addressed, and the dangers every church has faced in the last two thousand years, this book is for you. | I’ve heard (and preached) many sermons on Revelation’s “seven churches” but this book brought them alive to me in a new way with a rare combination of precise biblical exposition and precise practical application. It reminded me again of the abiding relevance and cultural timelessness of the Scriptures. May God use this book to awaken us to the fearful dangers inside as well as outside the church, but also point us to the Lord of the church as our only and all-sufficient hope for the future. | Combining careful exposition and practical application out of an experienced pastor's heart, this challenging book brings the text alive with penetrating parallels to our contemporary context. Unsettling and liberating in equal measure, its message deserves to be read and pondered by every church leader and member. Above all, its central focus is consistently on the gospel and on the Lord Jesus Christ himself, the head of his church, who is the only answer to our current predicaments. I warmly commend it. | Juan Sanchez makes wonderfully clear the call of Christ to the churches in Revelation, and he helps open our ears to hear that call in the church today. This book doesn’t minimize Scripture’s life-and-death warnings, and it keeps before us the amazing promises of Christ’s presence and power. All this comes in the voice of a wise, experienced, Scripture-saturated pastor/preacher. I read his words with great thanksgiving for the gift of this strengthening exhortation to the church. | Juan Sanchez is Preaching Pastor of High Pointe Baptist Church in Austin, Texas. He is a member of The Gospel Coalition Council, and an influential leader in the Reformed movement in Latin America. Juan earned a Masters of Divinity and a Masters in Theology from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY. Juan and his wife Jeanine have five daughters.