Shrink: Faithful Ministry in a Church-Growth Culture (Biblia.com)

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Among followers of Jesus, great is often the enemy of good. The drive to be great—to be a success by the standards of the world—often crowds out the qualities of goodness, virtue, and faithfulness that should define the central focus of Christian leadership. In the culture of today’s church, successful leadership is often judged by what works, while persistent faithfulness takes a back seat. If...

the activist church’s focus is on the impact the church may have on the culture. Hauerwas and Willimon remind us that “the church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.”3 The focus of the church is on being the peculiar people of God, embodying a different social reality. The second ditch is the conversionist church. Convinced that no amount of tinkering with societal structures can counter the effect of human sin, the conversionist church tries to save as many souls as

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