Change Your Church for Good
Brad Powell
Thomas Nelson, 2010, 300 pp., $19.99
If you assume most people detest and resist change, this book will make you very uncomfortable. Yet if you confess the insanity of doing what you’ve been doing and hoping for something different, you’ll immediately recognize the value of this book.
Change is about challenging all the irrelevant things most churches practice. It’s about probing the disdain most people hold toward the church. It’s about the terminal conditions found in most churches that Powell describes as “dead.” Powell pulls no punches and takes pride in writing with brutal honesty, but he readily admits this honesty is long overdue.
Change is hard to read because it isn’t long before you recognize the church’s need for change; but toward the end of the book, Powell brings a word of hope that change is attainable and well worth the hard work.
