Total Church Life: How to Be a First Century Church

A Crucial Guide to knowing and nurturing the 12 vital signs of a healthy church. In this diagnostic manual for ministry, Dr. Darrell Robinson describes the vital signs of the Body of Christ through twelve components of a healthy church. As well as presenting his Total Church Strategy, Total Church Life also features: + Specific, proven strategies for church health and growth + Encouraging true stories of church growth and success + Universal growth principles that work in every size and type of church, regardless of culture, ethnicity, style, context, or location + Diagnostic study questions at the end of each chapter. Dr. Darrell Robinson is Vice President for the Evangelism Section of the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention.

The author obviously loves the Lord and His people. Interesting! The grace of God given us so we come behind in no gift waiting for Jesus. I corinthians 1:7 If we are to be like the First Century Church...not coming behind in any gift, if we neglect and mock any gift of the blessed Holy Spirit, who longs to be Himself among us and minister to us in all His fullness, we grieve Him, we quench Him, and I sadly submit that we are 21st Century Laodicean, not a First Century church.

If you have a small Church or a "Mega-Church", this book is for you! We are currently using it in a men's small group study and the classes are continually growing. the chapters are challenging and the study questions at the end of each chapter are very in depth and keep with the theme of each chapter. If you get this book, you won't be disappointed.