Jossey-Bass, 2005, 237 pp., $23.95,
www.josseybass.com
After reading the title of this book, I couldn’t wait to tear into it. As I read, it tore into me. It is not another emergent/leftbehind/leaves me behind/time for change book. Well, actually, it is; but there is so much more to this book. Some will see it as controversial, some revolutionary, and some threatening. However it may strike you, know this: Mr. Cole’s book on the organic church and the Church Multiplication Association is filled with truths that cannot be ignored. It says to the church, “If you want to win this world to Christ, you are going to have to sit in the smoking section.” It is a powerful reality check and an attempt to evaluate the definition of the body of Christ.
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Rick McNeely, director of music and worship arts at Lebanon Presbyterian Church in Lebanon, Ohio
