Healing the Heart of Your Church

I see a great deal of value in this book. As a the new pastor of a once large church that has suffered greatly over the past twenty years it has really helped me think about how to move forward. I am not convinced that spending to much time in the past is a good idea, but then again it is thought provoking and worth the read. I am struggling, through prayer, how to use what I have found in these pages. You will need to be the judge on how you apply what is offered in the book, but again it will make you think. I do not want to suffer the same fate that pastors have at this church over the past two decades. So I am researching christian materials that might help me. So far, this one has at least helped me to think deeply about how our past does so influence our present. There is enough in these pages to warrant buying the book.

In this book Dr. Quick shares his heart for healing churches that have missed what Christ has been trying to tell them. As he illustrates from scripture and his own experience: if you don't learn what God is trying to tell you, he is going to keep telling you louder and louder (and probably through more and more pain). So if your church is going through pain, and you don't understand why (or even if you do), I strongly encourage you to get this book, and begin the process of understanding what Christ is trying to say to your church! We have had the privilege of going through the process laid out in healing the heart of your church, in our local assembly which was facing many of the issues that are talked about in his book. We have also had the great privilege of doing this with Dr. Ken Quick who happened to have come to Christ through our church 30 years ago. We are not done, but it has been amazing to see Christ at work in our church, and in the many relationships that have been damaged.

"Healing the Heart of Your Church" is a book for pastors written by a pastor's pastor. Author Ken Quick has extensive pastoral experience and now equips pastors in his role as a seminary professor. The ministry philosophy that Quick offers in "Healing the Heart of Your Church" has been field-tested in his churches, in the churches of his graduate students, and in the churches that Quick consults with. The heart of Quick's work is his penetrating analysis of Christ's messages to the seven churches in Revelation 2-3. Building upon his exegetical work in this passage of Scripture, Quick develops a model that helps Christians to understand God's design for the church, diagnose systemic problems in the church, and prescribe church-specific solutions. Because the core truths are founded upon Scripture, the book not only helps to heal hurting church families, it also can be used as preventative medicine to avoid church hurts. Pastors and lay leaders alike can benefit from "Healing the Heart of Your Church." Reviewer: Bob Kellemen, Ph.D., is the author of "Soul Physicians," "Spiritual Friends," "Biblical Psychology," "Martin Luther's Pastoral Counseling," and the forthcoming "Sacred Companions: A History of Soul Care and Spiritual Direction."