Brad Powell, pastor of NorthRidge Church in Plymouth, Michigan,Change Your Church for Good is best enjoyed if you start in chapter four. The opening chapters sound like a lot of other church growth/leadership books with little new information.
Powell is able to redirect and move into some practical advice for church leaders that will prove effective if used over the long haul.Most churches have become too focused on inside their walls and become to inward looking. What churches haven’t remembered is “the church isn’t a building, a program, a board, a committee, or any other such thing. The church is people, the family of God.”
Throughout the entire book, Powell looks at what many churches have become and does a great job of showing that this is not what God intended for His church. Even if the church has become stale and inward, there is still hope for them of changing and becoming a powerful force for Christ’s kingdom. Brad Powell reminds readers that the church really is the hope for the world. Churches need to help people make the connection to God to others and to ministry.
