As Grace
Fellowship Church grows and plans for the future I am eager to read outside my
normal diet of books and authors in order to harvest wisdom where it can be
found. That is what led me to take a look at Bill Easum and Bell
Tenny-Brittian’s new work.
In
my mind the most helpful chapter was the sixteenth of the seventeen included.
That chapter on Staffing Basics gave some good advice. There were a
few other nuggets sprinkled here and there throughout the book, but not as much as I
had hoped.
The
major flaw of the work was a theological one. That error was stated in various
ways throughout:
“No matter what size it is, the number one reason a church plateaus or declines s because of staffing issues.”
Sigh.
And here I thought it might have something to do with the sovereignty of God
and whether or not the Word of God is ably preached.
At
a foundational level, this is just another book that operates under the false
assumption that Big=blessed and that the way to get Big is to manage well. For
a far more helpful paradigm under which to understand church, read David Wells’
No Place for Truth.
(This book was provided courtesy
of Graf-Martin Communications and BakerBooks in exchange for an
honest review.)
