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Title: 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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