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The simple revolution is here From the iPod design to Google s uncluttered homepage, simple ideas are changing the world.Multi awarded 1 national bestseller Simple Church guides Christians back to the simple gospel sharing methods of Jesus No bells or whistles required Based on case studies of 400 American churches, Thom Rainer and Eric Geiger prove the disciple making process is often too complex Simple churches thrive by taking four ideas to heart Clarity Movement Alignment Focus Simple Church examines each idea, clearly showing why it is time to simplify. Best Download Simple Church [ Author ] Thom S. Rainer [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr While I appreciate the concept of the book, it is self defeating in its length The heart of the message of Simple Church is to clarify, move, align, and focus on what discipleship at your church looks like This book could have been a pamphlet.I read the whole first chapter I skipped a few sentences in the 2nd chapter I skipped paragraphs in the 3rd And I only read b...Do we need another stat filled book offering churches another way to organize themselves in order to maximize their effectiveness, reachpeople, heighten fellowship, stir excitement, encourage evangelism, and all the rest It would be nice if we had no use for such works but the fact is, we do Thom Rainer and Eric Geiger have collaborated to bring to us a work that is by no means e...Read with caution This book will not just be another church leader or methodology book, it will challenge you to reconsider how and what you do at churches period The challenge in this book are you making a busy group of people or ...The premise of this book is sound, and certainly one that all church leaders clergy and laypeople alike need to hearthat for your church to be healthy, it needs to be specifically and consciously organized around a simple process that moves people further and further along their walk with God.Support for the premise is, again and again, shown in the empirical results of the authors research While the results aren t always as immediately persuasive as the text implies, simple, process The premise of this book is sound, and certainly one that all church leaders clergy and laypeople alike need to hearthat for your church to be healthy, it needs to be specifically and consciously organized around a simple process that moves people further and further along their walk with God.Support for the premise is, again and again, shown in the empirical results of the authors research While the results aren t alway...This book reaches the right conclusions mostly but instead of getting there from a biblical exegetical basis, they do so on the basis of extensive research This is interesting as a secondary source but I d suggest starting with The Trellis and the Vine first Frankly, I didn t really enjoy this I d rather be motivated to follow a discipleship pattern from Scripture than research It feels like this is the evangelical answer to Jim Collins Good to Great The problem is that the church is This book reaches the right conclusions mostly but instead of getting there from a biblical exegetical basis, they do so on the basis of extensive research This is interesting as a secondary source but I d suggest starting with The Trellis and the Vine first Frankly, I didn t really enjoy this I d rather be motivated to follow a discipleship pattern from Scripture than research It feels like this is the evangelical answer to Jim Collins Good to Great The problem is that the church is not a business and I have no interest in seeing it run like one or do something on the basis of what someone s research project says Further, church growth is not a matter of adopting some 4 step process or formula If the goal is to align church processes with biblical principles, the...This book revolutionized my view of church ministry Loved it A must for every pastorThom Rainer and Eric Geiger s book attempts to persuade the reader to contemplate church as simple With the plethora of mission, vision, and strategic statements, the church leadership as well as the average parishioner can easily get lost in various messages in the church Appealing to Apple Computer s simplistic approach, Rainer and Geiger share that simple is not only in, they also show that this approach is effective With research from various churches Rainer and Geiger propose that Thom Rainer and Eric Geiger s book attempts to persuade the reader to contemplate church as simple With the plethora of mission, vision, and strategic statements, the church leadership as well as the average parishioner can easily get lost in various messages in the church Appealing to Apple Computer s simplistic approach, Rainer and Ge...While the book had good and valid points, I feel it could have been much shorter as there was lots of repetition I also believe they gave no attention to other issues that I think have damaged the church, such as an increased focus on music and decreased emphasis on expository preaching.This book could have been a fourth as long and still just as effective because the message is very simple every church should give some thought to a clearly defined and Christ centered process of discipleship When a person comes into the church as a newcomer guest, they should be able to figure out where the entry point into the church family is At our church this first step is attending the worship service in order to come and see God at work Whatever the next few steps are small groups, This book could have been a fourth as long and still just as effective because the message is very simple every church should give some thought to a clearly defined and Christ centered process of discipleship When a person comes into the church as a newcomer guest, they should be able to figure out where the entry point into the church family i...I had a difficult time deciding how to rate this book I think the basic idea presented focus your church s ministry on the process of spiritual growth and get rid of the stuff that doesn t fit that focus is fantastic and could help most churches if properly understood and applied However, the writing is at times painfully repetitive you can tell it was cowritten by two preachers , and the book would ve been just as good at 50 or 75% the length More substantively, it bothered me that the a I had a difficult time deciding how to rate this book I think the basic idea presented focus your church s ministry on the process of spiritual growth and get rid of the stuff that doesn t fit that focus is fantastic and could help most churches if properly understood and applied However, the writing is at times painfully repetitive you can tell it was cowritten by two preachers , and the book would ve been just as good at 50 or 75% the length More substantively, it bothered me that the authors seemed to be thinking exclusively of large churches The ideas would be useful to a church of any size, so I wish they had giventhought to illustrations and applications appropriate to a smaller church On top of this, as I read it struck me several times that the authors were viewing discipleship sanctification spiritual formation as an individualistic process I would love to hear how someone with acorporate c...

Simple Church
  • English
  • 14 March 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 272 pages
  • 0805443908
  • Thom S. Rainer
  • Simple Church