{"product_id":"2940044389601","title":"Like A Bridge","description":"\u003cp\u003eJames Bridger, divorced, jobless \u0026amp; hopeless, depends on a life mentor's help to rebuild his life in 1980's Tucson; first doing real estate ‘trashouts’ \u0026amp; then as a realtor. Growing professional contacts become a myriad of ‘recovering church-abused Christians’ networked apart from their churches and led by Jim. He wonders if his volatile faith history was a sign of things to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJim's 60's Bishop, CA. roots are littered by expulsion from his home church and an experiment in a Jesus movement commune. Another church spilt over conservation, commerce and conflicting cultures drives Jim and young wife, Beth, away from their frustrated families and into a 70's missional, mountain church plant. Their Tucson move to what Jim hoped was a stable community church was anything but.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Higher Calling’ grew beyond any organized church system while Jim's lead team triumvirate realized they were more than a community service organization. Through their 90's journey, Jim's friends and family remind him that his words don’t match his actions. Facing his own clay feet… and those of his network intimates… Jim realizes he must integrate both sides of himself (the churchman \u0026amp; missional leader), as well as his church\/movement culture.\u003cbr\u003eJim senses his running from flawed church systems and leaders is a hollow solution. As real life crises challenge his closest friends and their families he knows he must face the tension between his need for organic community and organized systems.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Roger Garth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47122032886000,"sku":"2940044389601","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940044389601_p0.jpg?v=1763959952","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940044389601","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}