I AM a Follower

Short review: The basic thesis is simple. The church should be teaching people how to follow Jesus, not how to be leaders. I like Sweet. He is one of the smartest, widest read Christian thinkers out there. His books are always very quotable and I almost always think his thesis is basically right. But he needs an editor to cut out some of the fluff (30-50 pages here). And I think he has a tendency to over play the point. But I really do think that he is right about this. His prescription is that we need to be more focused on intentional discipleship within community, on the process of becoming sanctified and not on the event of salvation, and more on the organic nature of Christianity and less on the technology/organization of the church (those are all my words, not his).

My longer review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/follower/