REVITALIZE Your Church Through Gospel Recovery

by Alvin L. Reid

Across America churches struggle to relate to a changing culture. Many face decline and possible extinction. ReVITALize offers biblical, historical, and practical wisdom for leaders who seek a revitalized church. Using the analogy of the human body for the body of Christ, the reader will see how to lead a local church to renewed health and vitality.

88 pages, Paperback

First published February 26, 2013

About the author

DR. ALVIN L. REID, best known for his student-given nickname “Doc,” has been a professor for over 20 years, over 17 of them spent at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina.

He has written over a dozen books, most on subjects like evangelism, spiritual awakenings, missional Christianity, and student ministry, and has taught young leaders on four continents and on scores of college campuses from the University of North Carolina to Harvard.

Reviews

[James Collins · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good Practical Advice
"Revitalize" is an encouraging book for pastors and ministry leaders. Each chapter is based on the acrostic VITAL:
Vision - See and recover the Gospel.
Ingestion - Feed yourself and your people on the Word with Gospel eyes.
Traction - Get moving by stepping out of the church building to missional living.
Alignment - Lead your church to line up everything she is about with clear standards.
Leverage - Be encouraged by others.
There is some good practical advice in this book. If you are looking to breathe new life into a dying church, check out "Revitalize."

[Rev James · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great encouragement

This book has been a great encouragement to me and has strengthened me in church renewal. I pray that I can find others to a a part is in church renewal

[David · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book made some very good points and offered some powerful insights to revitalizing a church.. The primary focus of this book was preaching the gospel. The author uses illustrations of revivals (the true meaning of revitalization) and how they occured. Every single example began with a pastor returning to preaching how to get saved and making certain of one's salvation. Good points and well presented.

There is some good advice here for pastors seeking to wake up their churches.

However, the book is not overly organized and at times comes across like a conversation where a pastor tends to ramble from time to time. I found no issues to disagree with, but occasionally, the formatting of the type and the boxed examples just weren't printed professionally and seemed offset.

Still, a decent, short book with some good advice.

[Jeff Dowdy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great short read with plenty of insights for trying to turn around a declining church. The premise of the need for gospel witness from the pulpit, biblical expositional preaching, and prayer is crucial to understanding revival movements. The book challenges the status quo of many churches and encourages pastors to seek the Lord for Revival. The book needs some editing as there are an abundance of typos.

[Dan Hendon · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was an incredible read. It was practical and not too academic to process and it didn't feel like it dragged on. I couldn't put it down!

[Dan Hendon · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was an incredible read. It was practical and not too academic to process and it didn't feel like it dragged on. I couldn't put it down!