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Summary: Roy Jackson, Former Senior Warden, Christ Episcopal Church
Review: For three years, I was a vestryperson of Christ Episcopal Church in Overland Park, Kansas. (1997-2000) The last two years of this service was spent as the senior member of the vestry, known in the Episcopal Church as Senior Warden. The Senior Warden's responsibility is to lead the twelve person vestry as well as work closely with the clergy on all church matters , both secular and spiritual. For the past decade, our church has witnessed phenominal growth, due primarily to the increased spiritual vitality of the church and strong leadership of our senior pastor,Ron McCrary. In the past few years, we have prayed about and researched ways to serve our growing church community. We had become basically a program based church. Although small groups were a part of our church family, programs, which catered to the masses and which the staff implemented were thought to be the foundation for meeting the congregation's needs. I believed strong progams was the answer to meeting the spiritual needs of a growing church. I had my doubts about the effectiveness of small groups and was not a proponent of cell based ministry. Several months ago, Ron McCrary gave me a copy of the Cell Based Church and asked me to read it and tell him what I thought. Reluctantly I began the book, not initially expecting anything that would change my mind about cell ministry. After the first chapter, I discovered that I was underlining, highlighting and making notes in the margins. The reason was that so much of what I was reading seemed to have relevance to our church and had specific relevance to many of the people that I knew personally in our parish. By the time I finished the book, I had become a cell based ministry convert. Not only did many of Billy Hornsby's ideas seem to have great potential and benefit for our church, the "proof of the pudding" evidence, from other churches doing cell base ministry, convinced me that we had to change our church's ministerial philosophy from program based to cell based. Our clergy and vestry agreed recently to convert our ministry philosophy and stategy to a cell based approach. We are now in the embryonic stages of that conversion. We have known for some time that God is truly blessing our church. We also know that He has now sent us Billy Hornsby with his exciting ideas and proven stategies in order that we may really take our responsibility in doing God's work to the next level. The Cell Driven Church is a "Must Read" for any church leader. Roy Jackson
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Summary: You MUST read "The Cell-Driven Church!"
Review: The "Cell-Driven Church" is full of practical insights into the "nuts and bolts" of the cell model. It is easy to read and moves along quickly. I found great illustrations and testimonies of people on the front-lines of cell leadership. Also, the "Cajun" jokes are really funny and effectively placed!! I highly reccommend this book to anyone interested in the cell church concept.
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