Zechariah: God's Big Plan for struggling Christians by Tim Chester

Zechariah: God's Big Plan for struggling Christians by Tim Chester

Christians struggle. We struggle with ridicule and being ignored in a 'day of small things'; with opposition to the message that Jesus is the only way to God; with our own failures and the devil's accusations that make us question whether God accepts us. False teachers, false religion, and false priorities plague and distract us.

In Zechariah's day, Israel had returned from exile, but home was certainly not all they had hoped for. Zechariah's task was to bring comforting words to the struggling people of God.

These six Bible studies open up Zechariah's reassuring and revitalizing message for God's discouraged people, including God's great international building project; His solution to sin; His promised Shepherd-King; His great Day of judgment and salvation.

Constantly focusing on what these things mean practically for Christians today, this course aims to help Christians live a life shaped, not by 'these days', but by 'that day' when God's big plan comes to glorious fruition.

Tim Chester is a church planter and Bible teacher with a Ph.D. from the University of Wales. He is the codirector of The Porterbrook Network, which helps people and churches rediscover mission, and the director of the Northern Training Institute, which offers comprehensive theological and missional training to church leaders. He is one of the co-leaders of the Crowded House, a network of church-planting organizations. Good News to the Poor, The Message of Prayer, Whole Church, and You Can Change are some of his writings. His family and he live in Sheffield, England.