Building a Bottom-Up Church - A guide to developing an authentic Christian community. The "Top-Down" structured faith and church is the root of many of the problems that the worldwide church now faces. It redefines Christianity in a way which, while being based on the Bible, actually distances people from God. The alternative is what the author calls the "Bottom-Up" church, which is when faith is based on the gospel, not church-culture or Orthodoxy. This book describes how to build a bottom-up church step by step, which involves building a gospel-based faith, applying that faith in...