Church leaders have preached for generations that the church is not a building - the Church is people. But then every activity and ministry effort is building-reliant. Even outreach efforts are basically nothing more than gimmicks designed to get new people into the building. How can people actually be the Church when they are so busy going to the church? Stop thinking about church as a box.
Pastors, church staff, ministry leaders, church members. Read this book. Do it now; do not wait. There is a rapidly changing world evolving outside our church building doors, walls, traditions and religious trappings. We remain inside; these buildings, walls, traditions and trappings holding in this tremendously powerful love of Jesus. Why? why friends, why?
This is one those 'somebody said it in their out loud voice' books. Having been a part of the church for many decades, I've experienced most of the scenarios that Bo describes. This short read is an essential introduction to church leaders everywhere to wrestle and pray through the realities of change in and around the global church.