Left behind in a megachurch world : how God works through ordinary churches / [print]
Ruth A. Tucker.
- Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Books, (c)2006.
- 221 pages ; 23 cm.
Introduction: Left behind with purpose -- Personal reflections on left-behind churches -- The Wal-Mart gospel blues -- The precipice-driven pastor -- A left-behind theology -- Burnout in the parsonage and parish -- Megachurch mania -- Literature, seminars, and theory of church growth -- Left behind with a woman's touch -- Left behind in community -- Left behind with a sense of humor -- The messiness of the left-behind church -- Spiritual memories of the church in the valley -- The church in the valley of the shadow of death -- New life for the left-behind church.