Simple Church | Thom S. Rainer & Eric Geiger

Thom S. Rainer & Eric Geiger. Simple Church: Returning to God’s Process for Making Disciples. B&H, 2006. 257 pp.

Simple. It’s what everybody wants these days. Just ask Google with their 20-40 word homepage, Papa John’s with their streamlined menu, or Apple with their infamous single-button I-Pod. In an increasingly overcomplicated world, simple is in high demand.

However, according to Thom S. Rainer and Eric Geiger the ’simple revolution’ has also found its way into churches. Congregations once over-inflated with myriad programmes have now become streamlined disciple-making centres. At the same time, churches which are failing to make the switch are tending towards stagnation or decline.

Reviewed by Colin Adams.

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Simple Church | Thom S. Rainer & Eric Geiger

Thom S. Rainer & Eric Geiger. Simple Church: Returning to God’s Process for Making Disciples. B&H, 2006. 257 pp.

In a day when “how to” books are being published in every area of life, it is not surprising that churches and denominations should find ways to develop their own how to books about doing and being church. Thom Rainer (president and CEO of LifeWay Christian Resources and author of Breakout Churches) and Eric Geiger (executive pastor of Christ Fellowship in Miami) present this answer to how churches can be church.

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