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People and churches across America are discovering that their secular friends and neighbors have been unknowingly waiting for the chance to experience the good God. Blue Ocean Faith is a network of churches that have seen thousands of secular people - from Harvard deans to public housing residents - connect with God. Blue Ocean founder Dave Schmelzer details six profound paradigm shifts that unlock a depth of connection to God that's new for many churchgoers and that's unprecedented for their secular neighbors. Embracing centered-set faith, becoming solus Jesus, and taking a third-way approach to LGBTQ congregants are among the game-changers that empower this rich life of faith. Rather than retreating from or drawing lines against our increasingly secular world, people of faith can join Jesus - as followers like Saint Francis of Assisi have done for millennia - in joyfully entering the world around them with profound wonder and an equally-profound offer of a life that really is life.



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Dave Schmelzer

Dave Schmelzer is the senior pastor at Vineyard Christian Fellowship of Greater Boston. A former playwright, Dave graduated from Stanford University with a degree in literature and later received his M.A. in theology from Fuller Theological Seminary. He lives outside of Boston with his wife, Grace, and their children.



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