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Renew Your Congregation: Healing the Sick, Raising the Dead (TCP Leadership Series)
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #242162 in Books
- Published on: 2007-11
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 135 pages
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Church renewal as seen from the trenches
Renew Your Congregation: Healing the Sick, Raising the Dead (TCP Leadership Series)
The publisher labels Dr. William McConnell's writing style as "folksy." That's because he tells stories about all the folks in his church, all of his Kentucky kin and his third cousin's sick cat. The book is about real churches and real people. Bill focuses on renewing, revitalizing mainline churches--especially those that have histories. I know some of the preachers he quotes, some of them have family in our church and I know his parishioners. These are real leaders in the trenches. Leaders of mainline churches will find this enjoyable reading and a helpful resource. I'm not going to sell my library of Barna, Stanley, Wagner, Malphurs, Easum, or Drucker, but Bill fills in gaps for the mainline church pastor who finds the stories of the mega-churches or independent churches not quite fitting their situation. Dr. McConnell's approach to conflict management in board meetings is amusing and insightful. What preacher--regardless of church size or brand--won't identify with: "One of my major mistakes was mistaking tired for done. What I probably needed was not relocation, but a vacation."
Deep but not Dense
What I appreciate about this book is that it is deep but not dense. It contains valuable insights about church transformation that are readily accessible to the reader. It is a perfect book for a leadership group in a local church or a group of pastors to read and discuss together. Bill gives you something to think about as well as something to act on. This book is hopeful and helpful at the same time. It gives you a sense that church transformation is challenging but not impossible. Bill is somehow simultaneously irreverent yet also caring towards the local church and that is a healthy combination.
Well written
Very useful. Well written in a very readable format. The somewhat dry, sometimes self deprecating humor kept the discourse lively and never became pontifical.
