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Simple Church hits No. 1 on Church & Ministry chart
LifeWay President Thom S. Rainer is co-author
The book also was named the 2007 Christianity Today Book Award winner in the Church/Pastoral Leadership category.
The magazine’s judging panel said, “This very practical book addresses a big gap in most evangelical churches: the lack of a functional process for actually making disciples (not just incorporating church attenders).”
Simple Church also recently was named by Outreach magazine as the Best Outreach Leadership Training Resource of 2007.
Written by LifeWay President Thom S. Rainer and Eric Geiger, executive pastor of Christ Fellowship in Miami, Simple Church clearly calls for Christians to return to the simple Gospel-sharing methods of Jesus. No elaborate, multilevel outreach strategies required.
Based on case studies of 400 American churches, the book shows how the process for making disciples has quite often become too complex. Simple churches are thriving by taking four ideas to heart: clarity, movement, alignment and focus.
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