Church Next: Quantum Changes in How We Do Ministry

A 2001 Christianity Today Book of the Year!What will the church be next?CHANGE IS NOW. Competition from nontraditional and Eastern religions join with the pressures of both modernism and postmodernism to squeeze Christianity.While new church models have sprung up to meet these challenges, they each have strengths and limitations. Eddie Gibbs, a well-known church strategist and practitioner, candidly analyzes these models while proposing nine areas in which the church will need to transform to be biblically true to its message and its mission to the world.With vigor and insight Gibbs shows how we can move