This is a book for pacesetters -- Church leaders who desire to help their churches break free of the things that turn them in on themselves and keep them from being outward-looking and outward-moving communities of Jesus Christ. (His biblical) principles, if followed, transform individual lives and then lead to a movement within a Church to change the whole congregation," writes John Guest in the foreword.. . . . "I have never been as excited about any book concerning Church growth as when I read this book .
Thus it is a book not merely for pastors, but for the whole body of Christ.
It offers one an unparalleled challenge to be evaluated, revitalized, and then used by God for the work of ministry.
This is a book written to help change churches by changing the individuals who read it.
In his own discovery of the power and presence of God he discovered the tendency of the Church to live by its own power and resources.
It traces the author\'s own growing awareness of the problem of ingrownness in his calling as a pastor, seminary professor, and evangelist/missionary.
Outgrowing the Ingrown Church is a masterful mix of biblical principle, objective analysis, and personal experience.
And that is why this book was written.
It must, therefore, be combated with the norms of Scripture.
It can destroy the vital spiritual health of a church.
But ingrownness is a pathology.
It is the "norm" for contemporary evangelical and Protestant churches.
The Ingrown Church is a common phenomenon.
This is a book for pacesetters -- Church leaders who desire to help their churches break free of the things that turn them in on themselves and keep them from being outward-looking and outward-moving communities of Jesus Christ
