Name: Jonny Morrison | Prodigal Gospel
Start: 2024-07-16T18:00:00-06:00
End: 2024-07-16T19:30:00-06:00
Location: The King's English Bookshop

Jonny Morrison is co-lead pastor at Missio Dei in Salt Lake City. He'll be discussing and signing his book: Prodigal Gospel!
About this Event

Jonny Morrison is co-lead pastor at Missio Dei in Salt Lake City. He'll be discussing and signing his book: Prodigal Gospel: Getting Lost and Found Again in the Good News. This in-person event is open to the public and will take place at the bookshop.

Registration is required for this free event. Reserve your spot on Eventbrite here.

Copies of the book will be available to purchase at the event. You may also pre-order your signed copy of Prodigal Gospel to pick up at the event by either calling the store at 801-484-9100 or ordering online. If you cannot make this event, signed copies of Prodigal Gospel may be ordered from our website. Please specify in the comments if you would like your copy personalized. Places in the signing line are reserved for those who purchase a copy from The King's English.

About the book:

The good news is bigger and better than we imagined.

Is the gospel good news for us today? Many Christians--especially young Christians stepping into a world and a church devastated by division, scandal, and abuse--are asking this question and deciding it simply isn't. For many, it seems like our faith has little to offer the world around us. Our gospel has become too small--it looks nothing like the Jesus who embodies good news in the flesh.

How do we recover this gospel? When we turn to the parable of the prodigal son--a story of elaborate parties, upside-down kingdoms, and reunited families--we can hear in Jesus' own words a clear presentation of what he is doing, of a truth that is bigger and better than we've imagined. In these pages, author and pastor Jonny Morrison invites us on a journey to help us find ourselves and Jesus in the welcoming arms of this familiar parable, zooming out to show how this story shapes the entire story of Scripture. Along the way we discover the radically inclusive power of the gospel that upends religions, disrupts empires, heals the wounded, and empowers the marginalized. This is, after all, Jesus' news to tell, and when we truly listen to him tell it, we can be found again in the surprising, disarming, challenging gospel that is truly good news.