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Summary: The emporer has no clothes
Review: If implemented, the ideas in this book could radically reduce problems in churches such as deception, molestation of children by clergy, unhealthy sectarian barriers, unhealthy dependence on leaders to think for others, unhealthy loading of responsibilities on pastors that should be distributed to ordinary believers.If you are looking for a book that just bashes "spiritual abuse" or the traditional institutional church, this book is not for you. If you want to get a balanced view of what biblical leadership should be, this book is excellent food for thought...
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Summary: The emporer has no clothes
Review: If implemented, the ideas in this book could radically reduce problems in churches such as deception, molestation of children by clergy, unhealthy sectarian barriers, unhealthy dependence on leaders to think for others, unhealthy loading of responsibilities on pastors that should be distributed to ordinary believers. If you are looking for a book that just bashes "spiritual abuse" or the traditional institutional church, this book is not for you. If you want to get a balanced view of what biblical leadership should be, this book is excellent food for thought...
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Summary: What I once thought was Biblical
Review: It may be quite a startle for many believers to realize that most of our church authority structures are closer akin to corporate America than anything that can be found from the New Testament. Such is one of the themes found in "Who is Your Covering?". The author takes dead aim at the many unscriptural patterns of authority rampant in modern Christendom and contrasts them to the life and simplicity of the Biblical record. He breathes fresh life into the many passages that have commonly been used to support unbiblical leadership models. This book has done serious damage to my 20th century evangelical mindset. All my arguments for supporting what I once thought was Biblical have been completely deflated. Instead, I now have a new appreciation for how this issue of "covering" directly effects the visible, practical headship of Christ in His church.
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Summary: Earth-Shattering Presentation on Church Leadership
Review: This book devastates the modern understanding of church leadership. With Biblical scholarship, it shows how the modern pastoral role and denominational system is unscriptural and harmful. And it takes a very fresh look at what leadership and authority were in the first-century church. This is must reading for anyone who has been hurt by the present church authority structures.
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Summary: One of the Best Emerging Church Books
Review: This book should be a required read for all emerging churches. Viola is ahead of his time in this seminal critique of traditional leadership. What I found refreshing was that it wasn't the same old trite teaching about what leadership should be, "leaders are servants, not controllers." That is obvious and no one would disagree. Instead of stating the obvious, this book probes the root very deep on what leadership is and isn't. Surprisingly, the book makes a compelling case that leadership in the early church was shared by all of the believing community. I believe the emerging church is in danger of falling into the same trap that the Jesus Movement fell into three decades earlier. That is why I feel this book is required reading. Who is Your Covering?, along with Viola's Rethinking the Wineskin and Pagan Christianity, should be on everyone's reading list who is part of the emerging church discussion.
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Summary: "Covering..." gives the reader brutal truth
Review: When you come out of the first chapter, you realize how wrong you were. After being singed by the flames of chapter two, all your arguments have gone up in smoke! Three leaves you on your face to deal with God and ask for the humility to be able to do this thing called "church". Chapter four dissolves any ideas you had about a new "house-church" movement, and five gives us the vehicle with which to accomplish that which God has called His Body to. Why is this book important for you to get and read? It will completely obliterate any thoughts you had about starting a new "house-church", and you will be forced to truly "count the cost" before starting one. The Lord's way is a "costly but glorious quest".
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