BUILDING A STRATEGIC CHURCH
By David Beer
Kingsway. 224 pages. £7.99
ISBN 978-1-84291-288-1
David Beer is now serving as the regional leader of Purpose Driven Church Europe. As the title suggests, he has written this book to help churches become more ‘strategic’.
One of the things that put me off this book right from the start is that he never clearly defines what this means — even in an opening chapter entitled ‘Why be Strategic?’ Instead he simply states that it involves a number of important principles — such as ‘Strong Leadership’, ‘Team Spirit’, ‘Relational Structures’, ‘Application Preaching’, and ‘Involvement in the Local Community’ — which then become the headings for the rest of the chapters.
