Ten Stupid Things That Keep Churches from Growing
How Leaders Can Overcome Costly Mistakes
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Based on interviews with pastors of growing churches, as well as personal experience, this book identifies the most common mistakes pastors make that keep otherwise healthy churches from reaping the harvest God has prepared. Each chapter spotlights a common mistake, gives real-life examples, uses a generous dose of humor, and provides a practical course of action to recover from the error. The book draws from the experience of Seacoast Church as well as pastors such as Craig Groeschel, Chris Hodges, Perry Nobel, Mark Batterson, Dave Ferguson, Scott Chapman, Dino Rizzo, Ron Hamilton, and Dave Browning, Church leaders will be encouraged to realize that they are not the only ones who struggle, and that turning their situation around may not be as daunting a task as they think. This is a field guide for the common pastor based on actual churches of all sizes.
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Short review: This is a book for pastors. If you are not a pastor, you probably won't really want to read this book. But it is funny, direct and to the point and worth reading if you are a pastor. Most of the 10 things really are things that should be avoided, but are also common in the church. There is a bias toward growth as a purpose for church. So if you are not a church growth oriented pastor, you probably want to skip this one.
The last chapter is very good. It is really about how you as pastor should approach church growth and your job. In many ways I wish it would have been first, but I think the author assumes that you needed to read the 10 stupid things before the last chapter or you would probably not get the weight of responsibility that is on the pastor, and at the same time forget that it is really the responsibility of the Holy Spirit to grow the church.