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When Churches Remember
Why God Commands His People to Preserve What He Has Done
Read it. Preach it. Take your team through it.
A biblical and practical call for churches to preserve testimonies of God's faithfulness so future generations can know what He has done.
- 14 chapters
- 181-page PDF
- About 3 hours to read
By Kraig Kleeman, founder of The Zoé Life
The Core Premise
God knows something about us that we routinely underestimate: we forget.
Why This Matters
Scripture is full of stones, feasts, and retold stories because God knew His people would forget. Churches forget too. This book shows pastors how to keep spiritual memory alive and hand it to the next generation.
What You'll Discover
- Why God commands His people to remember
- Why forgetting is more dangerous than it looks
- How success can make a church forget
- The pastor as keeper of spiritual memory
- How to give the next generation something to remember
From the Book
What begins as grace can be retold as achievement.
The destination proved God's faithfulness. But so did the road.
What we repeatedly remember shapes what we repeatedly desire.
Preaching & Teaching Kit
Free during previewA sermon series that brands itself for your church
Upload your church logo and "When Churches Remember" rebuilds itself in your colors: the guide, the slides and every handout, in seconds. No designer, no reformatting. Add it for $39 and take the book from your study to your pulpit, your leaders and your small groups.
- Auto-branded: upload your logo and every piece takes on your church's colors
- 5-week preaching guide, with one-message and class versions
- 73-slide series deck, with your logo on the title slide
- 3 team handouts, ready to print in your colors
- Free team link for your staff and group leaders
- The whole kit as one ZIP download
- Week 1The God Who Commands Us to Remember
- Week 2Build the Stones Before You Leave the River
- Week 3When Churches Forget
- Week 4Becoming a Remembering Church
- Week 5Give the Next Generation a Memory
Try your church colors
Pick a pair, or your own main color. The slides on this page recolor right away.
In the kit, you upload your logo and we pull your real colors for the slides, guide and handouts. See how it works
The slides
Four of the 73 slides in the deck, from Week 1. Pick a color above and they change with it.
Title slide. Your church logo sits in the corner.
Week opener, with the sermon title and Scripture.
Key line, the book's own words, quoted exactly.
Small-group questions to close the week.
Every handout, ready to print
Real first pages from the kit. One for the preacher, two for your leaders, one for everyone.
For the preacherPreaching guide: Preaching & Teaching GuideA five-week sermon series from the book plus series slides, with a one-message version and a class version.
For your leadership teamStaff Discussion GuideQuestions for each of the five Parts, for leadership teams reading the book together.
For your leadership teamWhat Does Your Church Remember?Chapter 9's memory audit on one sheet, for a small group of trusted leaders.
For your congregation and groupsChurch Memory MapA worksheet for gathering your church's own stones, from Chapters 4 and 12.
Free sample
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