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Title: Decent Small Group Primer
Review: Dreisbach offers a decent model for small groups that creative church leadership could adapt. I think his handling of "traditional" church wasn't as well thought out as it could have been. I selected the book knowing I was reading something profoundly different from some of the other church leadership books I had been reading. I would have much rather he just outlined this as a "House Church" model and marketed the book as such. Sure we can make the claim that the early churches in the New Testament were house churches but that was because Christianity was so new. The church building was a product of the need for a house of worship that evolved from the house church.My advice to church leaders considering the book? Take the basics that are presented here and give thoughtful study to the paradigms that are presented. I felt those were helpful. The rest is just rehashed material. You'd be better off buying a book like "Can We Do That?" by Andy Stanley and Ed Young
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