Title: Merely a Southern Baptist apologetic
Product review: This book does a good job of showing how a healthy church must emphasize importance of the authority of God's Word and expounding on that Word. However, if you are not a Southern Baptist, you probably will not enjoy this book. I was hoping this book would be an aid for leaders across a broad spectrum of evangelical churches to assess their health and take practical steps in this area. Instead, about a third of the book is merely a defense of Southern Baptist theology. If your theology is not firmly rooted in Calvinism, then, according to this author, your church will not be very healthy. Some of the other chapters were pretty good on issues such as church membership, but because a third of the book centers on Southern Baptist theology as crucial for a healthy church, it makes the other chapters seem less credible.
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