Change Your Church For Good: Leon's "Book of The Year" for Churchy Types
Change Your Church For Good (Revised Edition), Brad Powell; Thomas Nelson, 2010 This book was originally published as "Change Your Church For Good: The Art of Sacred Cow Tipping," and has been updated for a new generation of church leaders by author, pastor, blogger and church innovator, Brad Powell. Powell is the pastor of NorthRidge Church in Michigan, where he has been pastoring since 1990. Powell relates how he entered into what was then Temple Baptist Church with the realization that the church was dying and had become completely irrelevant to non-Christians, especially those who were coming of age in a Post-Christian society. Now NorthRidge is home to thousands of members on three campuses and was recently named the Midwest's "Fastest Growing Church." The transformation that Powell relates is one that has taken nearly 20 years, and was filled with obstacles, trials, tribulations, crises and eventually unbelievable joy, hope and unprecedented growth...