Christian Resource Centre

Friendly and helpful.
You can call to see if they have a book in stock and if they don’t they will order it

The Christian Resource Centre is filled with, as you know, Christian books, tracts, Bibles, fiction and non-​fiction, gifts, DVDs and CDs.
What you probably don’t know is that a guy operates out of an office here a few times a week and has an amazing outreach to the homeless of Auckland City. He teaches them, feeds them and sometimes helps them find work. On the day I went here with some friends, we met this guy (who’s name I can’t quite recall) and he told us all about what he does and the impact he has. He also offered to pray for my friend who was travelling to Thailand the following weekend. It’s that sort of love for humanity that makes you realize this guy is the genuine article and walks out his faith. It challenged and inspired me.
Hope you bump into him. If you don’t, there’s some great stuff to look at here and enjoy. Don’t expect to be blown away my the décor, but these guys have been around for a 150 years, so they are probably due for some redecorating.

The Christian Resource Centre sell mostly orthodox Christian books, under a banner of sections — bibles (of course), a wide range of children’s books, (and some not too heavy handed of the faith, eg. picture story books of C.S. Lewis’ Narnia tales), biographies, (even Oprah has cashed in on writing one about her take on Christianity by the looks of it), plus lots more.
They also stocked quite a range of CD’s and DVD’s on the shelves, none that particularly caught my eye, but there is obviously a market out there for that stuff. A few bookmarks and crucifix’s with aphorisms that you probably would give as a gift.
The lady behind the counter was friendly and unobtrusive with my browsing when I was in for the first time recently. I was a bit disappointed to not find any reprints of ancient Christian texts, such as the Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Truth, etc, or texts on theology, even some information on comparative religion has a market and would have been nice to see.