If Tim Keller and Sinclair Ferguson both like a book, I’d better check it out! These days I always read the email twice of the new theological book endorsed by the big names that I can’t miss. “Everything has changed! We need to reinvent the church to keep up. It shifted to books on how to be missional in a post-Christian culture. I became like the pastor David Hansen writes about in The Art of Pastoring: “Closets, desk drawers and file cabinets were filled with dittos of church growth teaching materials, church surveys and proposals … The movements he followed actually had little if any effect on his ministry, except in a fatal way: ultimately perhaps he confused following Christian movements with following Christ.” I shelled out the registration fees and gathered binders on my shelf promising results. It used to be conferences and books that promised the answer that would transform our church. I’m always tempted to look for the secret ingredient I’m missing.
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