Preston Tippen talks with Jack Eason about the time his church bought a strip club! You read that right… It went from cupcakes for strippers, to cleaning up the ‘dressing room’.

Then some of the church members became friends with the ladies. The church was on board with the project because they knew their efforts were reaching people who would never enter the doors of the church. Preston tells the rest of this amazing story of restoration in their community.

The mission at North Ridge Church is to relationally love people to Christ-centered wholeness.North Ridge Church Website: https://northridgefamily.org North Ridge Church Twitter: https://twitter.com/nrcfamily North Ridge Church Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/northridgefamily/timeline/

Preston Tippen is an adventurer – a person who enjoys or seeks adventure. He’d love to be an adventurer full-time, but has found that relationally loving people to Christ-centered wholeness as a pastor and Christ follower is adventuresome in its own right! To be on an adventure with Christ is his calling and his mission.

Learn more about Preston Tippen Website: about.me/prestontippen Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PTipp Instagram: https://www.linkedin.com/in/preston-tippen-50ab3196/

Grab your copy of Jack Eason's latest book TOGETHER: Abandoning Loneliness for the Power of Community at https://www.jackeason.org/books/#loneliness

Statistics show that, despite our connected world--and partly because of it--we are lonelier than ever. Social media tricks us into thinking that we are engaged in genuine friendships, except we never quite get beyond that feeling of being outside someone else's life and looking in every so often at what they choose to show the world. Instead of intimacy we get little more than what amounts to digital small talk. But there is a solution.

With plenty of good humor and practical advice, Jack Eason invites you to discover the benefits of doing life together with other brothers and sisters in Christ. Grounding his message in Scripture, Eason helps you

- learn the obstacles to real community

- reimagine what real friendship looks like

- discover a place of true belonging

- and more

If you're tired of feeling lonely, this encouraging and community-building book is just what you need.

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