A New Model of the Authentic Church

About the Book

In American church culture, worldly benchmarks of achievement have all but blinded us to the true purpose of the body of Christ. A New Model of the Authentic Church may be one of the most significant books written on the American church in decades. It not only offers a scholarly analysis of the current state of the church, but provides practical solutions.

The book offers a brilliantly well-developed model for how to make church work more effectively. If implemented, it would provide a much needed paradigm shift in how we do church in America. The book’s main contribution is that it provides a workable framework not only on how to birth new missionally minded churches, but how to reform existing ones back to the Authentic Church of the gospels.

If its principles are taken and applied, the book could alter the landscape of the American church, which will be a breath of fresh theological air to a church that has lost its way in the new millennium.

The purpose of this book is not to just challenge and change the status quo; its goal is to bring a real, lasting transformation to how we do church. The aspiration in writing this book is for it to be seen and read not just as a critical assessment of the condition of the American church, but as a practical blueprint that will provide much renewed hope and purpose to the contemporary American church, the bride of Christ.

About the Author

Robert Fuggi received his Juris Doctor from Regent University School of Law and his Master of Divinity and Master of Theology from Princeton Theological Seminary. He is currently a candidate for PhD at Regent University School of Divinity. A trial lawyer certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey, he’s successfully litigated hundreds of trials from wrongful death to institutional abuse.

His high-profile cases have been featured in the Daily News, The Washington Post, The Press of Atlantic City, The Trentonian, The Asbury Park Press, The Observer, among others. Robert Fuggi has been honored as one of the National Trial Lawyers Top 100.

As the founding pastor of Toms River Community Church, Robert Fuggi proactively models the change he desires to see in the American church.

He started the School of Biblical Studies and Theological Inquiry for pastoral and lay students. He also founded a highly active community outreach program for the homeless, which is one of the largest in his community.

Robert Fuggi and his wife, Lana, live in New Jersey. They have three children: Robby, Danny, and Christian.