Honor is a word we don’t use all that often, especially when we think of our church relationships. But in our culture of self-promotion, Christians are called to demonstrate humility and approach worshipping God and interacting with our church communities from a posture of love and honor. The brand-new book Honor: Loving Your Church by Building One Another Up will challenge your thinking about this topic and compel you to take seriously Jesus’ instructions to put others above yourself.
Honor unpacks what it means to honor God rightly, honor one another selflessly, and honor our leaders—even when they aren’t perfect or we don’t agree with them. The book explores the unique characteristics that mark a God-honoring church and, in particular, how humility is foundational so that members don’t see themselves as the most important people in the room but rather submit to one another in love.
In his foreword for the book, Alistair writes, “Scripture requires church members to be ready to honor others—for us all to look more quickly to the interests and encouragement of those in our church than ourselves and to be ready to humbly submit to those the Lord has called to shepherd the local flock we are a part of.”
This brief but convicting book will invite you to consider what it might look like if every time you walked into church, your first thought was not “What am I going to get out of this?” but instead “Isn’t it amazing that God extended His grace to someone like me?” Honor will also help you see what it means for a congregation to honor God by making His glory and authority the orbital center of their worship, teaching, theology, community, and mission.
Honor is a book that Alistair says he found “clarifying, stimulating, encouraging, and challenging.”
