A book written based on the assumption and corresponding research that complexity in churches is not beneficial to the life of the church. Paring down to the basics (see Google’s search page vs. Yahoo’s search page) and focusing everything about the church on a few principles seems to make churches grow better (i.e. deeper). These principles are three-fold: loving God, loving others, loving the world. Seems easy enough, but putting it into practice in a complex organization full of ministers doing “good works” is much more difficult.
2 Responses to “Simple Church, Thom S. Rainer & Eric Geiger”
Matthew Irvine on June 6th, 2008 11:27 pm:
Our ministerial staff went through that book, and I read it at the same time. We keep talking about application, but we haven’t put the wheels on the ground yet.
Kyle and I both read this book. Really good! Rainer has written some other good stuff too!