This book has helped put words to ideas that I had been pondering over for a long time. It helped me realise that I was not alone in thinking things could be better.
The author, Francis Chan, left a church that he had helped grow from a group that met in his home to a church with thousands of members. He had got disillusioned with what the church had become and took his wife and family on an adventure round the world to see how church is done in other places. He spoke to people from China, India and a few other places and realised that that other Christians had managed to put ideas about what the church should be like into practise.
This might be a book about how far the author’s experience of a mega church was from the biblical accounts of the early church but it still possible for it to provide food for thought for those whose only experience is small or even smaller than small churches.