The Center for the Study of World Christian Revitalization Movements

           Why do all the blurbs on the backs of new books about church vitality sound the same? It is hard to filter out the overblown hype and find the real value. Among all the “How I built a great church” books a few really do stand out, however. In the glut of recent books, these six are especially meaty:     Simple Church: Returning to God’s Process for Making Disciples, by Thom S. Rainer and Eric Geiger (Broadman and Holman, 2006; 257 pp.). Most churches are over-programmed but/or have no operational definition of discipleship and no workable process for actually…