Eating the Elephant : Leading the Established Church to Growth

Eating the Elephant : Leading the Established Church to Growth by Thom S. Rainer. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780974230603.

How Does an Established Church Grow? Many church leaders have attempted the "latest" approach to growing a church, only to find the methodology is ineffective and the church members are divided. Sometimes the methodology is wrong. Sometimes the methodology is right but the pace and the timing are wrong. Internationally-recognized authorities Thom Rainer and Chuck Lawless have written Eating the Elephant to show that a church can change and grow if you move at a pace that fits the churchs situation, if you eat the elephant one bite at a time. "Unfortunately," the authors write, "many traditional churches have been divided and demoralized by attempts to move the church too quickly toward relevancy. Is there a way to implement change without destroying the church in the process? We believe there is." For most of Americas church leaders, thats an invitation to tie on your napkin and pull up a chair.