Unhappy with your church?

Do you feel disgruntled about your church (or has it just been a while since you felt gruntled)? Are you tending to the uninvolved and dissatisfied end of church life? Does the idea of shaking off church structures, tiresome meetings and lackluster ways of operating, increasingly appeal?

Then let me recommend 'Why we love the Church' by Kevin DeYoung & Ted Kluck (Moody Publishers 2009). Two men on a mission to get you to love the church again (that includes the people in it by the way, all of them!) After all they say, 'Who wants a friend who rolls his eyes and sighs every time your wife enters the room? Apparently, some people imagine Jesus want friends like that. They roll their eyes and sigh over the church. (p12)

WWLTC is no whitewash of the church's faults but as they say, 'We sympathise with some of the frustration. But we also hope to show that the frustration is sometimes out of proportion to the offense and at other times misguided' (p15).