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Book Review: Multi-Site Churches

Reviewed by Bobby Jamieson

Me reviewing this book is like a PETA employee reviewing a hunting manual.

Let me explain. I don't think churches should be multi-site. I think that the New Testament church's example, the meaning and use of the word ekklesia, and the nature of congregational authority all indicate that a church is by definition, and therefore should only be, a single assembly that meets in one place.

Book Review: Franchising McChurch

Reviewed by Jonathan Leeman

How do you review a book when you pretty much agree with everything it says? Book reviewers, after all, often feel the need to demonstrate that they can think critically and aren't entirely "taken in" by any one book. There's a temptation to comb through the haystack, looking for that one needle of disagreement. Inevitably, you find yourself falling into some kind of picayune pedantry.

Book Review: One Church, Many Congregations

Reviewed by Bobby Jamieson

A United Methodist publishing house asked two Baptists to write a book about how churches can revolutionize their ministries by becoming one church with many congregations. Kind of sounds like the beginning of a joke or maybe a logic puzzle, doesn't it?

Book Review: After the Baby Boomers

Reviewed by Matt McCullough

Sociologist Robert Wuthnow thinks the future of American religion could be in doubt "unless religious leaders take younger adults more seriously" (p. 17). And he teaches at Princeton, so obviously you should listen to him, right?

Book Review: unChristian

Reveiwed by Owen Strachan

"Christianity has an image problem."

So say researcher Dave Kinnaman and market innovator Gabe Lyons in the recently published unChristian. A Barna Group research project commissioned by Lyons and led by Kinnaman, unChristian seeks to address this "image problem" by speaking frankly to believers about young people who "admit their emotional and intellectual barriers go up when they are around Christians, and [who] reject Jesus because they feel rejected by Christians".

Book Review: Kindled Fire

Reviewed by Kevin McFadden

What can Spurgeon teach us about preaching? To answer this question, you could spend the rest of your life reading the many volumes from Spurgeon's pen. Or, you could pick up a book that combs through all that material and distills Spurgeon's thinking about preaching into a single volume.

Leaders are readers. But what do they read? Even leaders can drown under the recent flood of church literature, and can be pulled out to sea by the undertow of subtly unbiblical ideas. We want to help local church leaders keep an eye on the biblical shoreline with thoughtful critiques of today's most influential books on church life and leadership.

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"How do I know God's will for my life?" This has become one of the most vexing questions in popular Evangelicalism today - and the answers given by leading authors are often intriguing. We've critically reviewed some of the most popular and influential guidance books on the shelf. You might be surprised by what we found.

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We're all looking for help on how to do evangelism. So what's out there? Are all evangelistic tools equal? We critiqued and compared six of today's most popular evangelism courses to see which ones were most Biblically sound and practically useful. Go ahead - take 'em for a test drive.

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