To be honest, I saw this book in a catalog from Group, and thought it was a humorous title, and picked it up thinking it may be more of a comical book than serious. While the book tends to bring a gentle sense of humor with it, the 10 chapters of this book are spot on.
Over the next few days, I think I would like to review each particular chapter in this book, and add my thoughts to the author’s thoughts. This book was written from the perspective of a Pastor in a multi-site congregation in Charleston, South Carolina. What I really liked about it was that it was not just from his perspective, but at the end of each chapter he asked a different Pastor/Minister to give his thoughts about that particular point.
Pastor’s contributing include Craig Groeschel, Pastor of LifeChurch.tv, Mark Batterson of National Community Church in Washington D.C., and Perry Noble of New Spring Church in South Carolina, who you can link to on the right. There are 7 others in the book as well, a different one for each chapter.
I’ll start the reviews of each chapter next week, but I thought I’d go ahead and give the chapter names so you could be thinking about them. In order, they are:
1. Trying to Do It All
2. Establishing the Wrong Role for the Pastor’s Family
3. Providing a Second-Rate Worship Experience
4. Settling for Low Quality in Children’s Ministry
5. Promoting Talent over Integrity
6. Clinging to a Bad Location
7. Copying Another Successful Church
8. Favoring Discipline over Reconciliation
9. Mixing Ministry and Business
10. Letting Committees Steer the Ship
I’ll try to begin this review Sunday afternoon or Monday. Till then, Roll Tide.