Book Description

Small churches -beset by financial stress, societal disinterest, internal weariness, and unproductive patterns -have tended to hunker down and wistfully hope for a miracle. But there is another way. They can claim their identity, exert their power, and love their way toward the Kingdom. In the pages that follow, Christine O'Reilly and Peter Bush challenge small churches to put worshp of God in the center of their life together and to organize that worship out of the gifts that God has already put within their congregation. This is a powerful and affirming word for small churches, which, if taken seriously, could revolutionize congregational life.