The Second Reformation: Reshaping the Church for the 21st Century - A book review
I recently just finished reading The Second Reformation: Reshaping the Church for the 21st Century. I am currently involved in a church that has gone the path of being a complete cell church and so in turn I am very familiar with the concepts, terms and reasoning's behind this approach to Christianity.
So keeping that in mind, this book wasn't very revolutionary in terms of changing my thinking or approach to church. The one thing this book did do for me was show me a very well defended approach to why church should be done this way. I am a fairly strong cynic of the traditional church, mostly because it has largely failed the population for the last oh.. 1700 years. Sure some people's lives have been transformed, and many good things have come out it, but the amount of good it could have produced with a cell church format is perhaps unimaginable.
My main complaint about the book is that towards the end the book gets rather repetitive and feels that many sections are just filler to reach a certain word count. I do somewhat understand the need for this, as it takes the human brain a few times to get something to stick. But knowing the basic structure of how a cell church operates before opening the book, it got a bit old by the end.
I would highly recommend this book to anyone involved in any kind of church anywhere. It does not matter what level of leadership you're at, but if you are a pastor you cannot over look the importance of such a strong argument.
If you're wondering why the church has failed you as a person and are looking for some answers as to why. Pick up this book and read the first few chapters detailing the one winged church. Then go out and find a church that is structured in this way.
The process to changing over to a cell church is a long, hard road. But the rewards at the end are to numerous to count.
Pros:
Excellent defense of his view point.
Strategies to obtaining what he talks about.
Possibly life changing for the right person.
Easy read.
Underlined lots of great quotes.
Cons:
A tad repetitive at times.
9.5/10
So keeping that in mind, this book wasn't very revolutionary in terms of changing my thinking or approach to church. The one thing this book did do for me was show me a very well defended approach to why church should be done this way. I am a fairly strong cynic of the traditional church, mostly because it has largely failed the population for the last oh.. 1700 years. Sure some people's lives have been transformed, and many good things have come out it, but the amount of good it could have produced with a cell church format is perhaps unimaginable.
My main complaint about the book is that towards the end the book gets rather repetitive and feels that many sections are just filler to reach a certain word count. I do somewhat understand the need for this, as it takes the human brain a few times to get something to stick. But knowing the basic structure of how a cell church operates before opening the book, it got a bit old by the end.
I would highly recommend this book to anyone involved in any kind of church anywhere. It does not matter what level of leadership you're at, but if you are a pastor you cannot over look the importance of such a strong argument.
If you're wondering why the church has failed you as a person and are looking for some answers as to why. Pick up this book and read the first few chapters detailing the one winged church. Then go out and find a church that is structured in this way.
The process to changing over to a cell church is a long, hard road. But the rewards at the end are to numerous to count.
Pros:
Excellent defense of his view point.
Strategies to obtaining what he talks about.
Possibly life changing for the right person.
Easy read.
Underlined lots of great quotes.
Cons:
A tad repetitive at times.
9.5/10
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