Saturday, February 07, 2004

The Prevailing Church by Randy Pope

This book was recommended to me by an experienced church planter so I bought it. It seems it might be useful since I will be working on a church planting project next semester as part of my college placement.

The author is the pastor of the Perimeter Church in Duluth, Georgia and has a successful track record of planting churches.

I have to confess to some skepticism regarding books like this. Such books seem to adopt a pragmatic approach to ministry rather than a theologically grounded one. I have been assured that this is different. I hope in the next few days to comment on the contents as I read more, and perhaps raising questions or alternative views. We’ll see how it goes. At the end I hope to publish an overview.

Chapter 1


The basis of the book title is Matthew 16:18 which says,

“And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome [or prevail against] it.” (NIV)

This verse serves as a basis to contrast the “prevailing” church and the “precautious” church. The latter has a maintenance mindset, the former a growing one. Pope’s fundamental question is “Is our church consciously seeking to be prevailing?” (p.26)

This is an attractive start. But I have to restrain myself a little. It strikes me that we would be better to understand what the church is before launching off into examining what we are doing. More time spent interpreting the intention of Jesus in its context would be useful. Perhaps this will become clearer as time goes on.

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