Last week, Zondervan asked bloggers to review the book A Multi-site Church Roadtrip, and I jumped at the opportunity. Although I’m not a huge book reader I have been wanting to read a book on the subject of multi-site churches, and this was a great opportunity. So it was a win-win opportunity: a got a free book on a subject I wanted to learn about and they got a free book review.
Overall, I highly recommend this book for any executive pastoral team/staff who are currently leading a multi-site church, who are interested in transforming their church into being multi-site, and who are not interested in transforming their church at all. Why? Because this book provides great information and examples for any church to use; not just for multi-site churches. For instance, in chapter 4, the authors state various examples of church locations. These locations can be used for any church even if it is their only location.
I enjoyed three aspects of the book the most. First, the authors were strategically determined to present the information as if they and the reader were on a road trip as the title suggests. It’s like a big cross country trip to 15 different multi-site churches without having to visit each physical location and to be cramped in a vehicle with 3 men.
I also enjoyed that each church example was explained as a story. Each church’s history was presented from its founding to how multi-site became a part of the vision to how each church implemented their own specific strategy for becoming a multi-site church to what the vision is for the church’s future. I love stories, and each church’s story was presented well.
Finally, I enjoyed how the authors illustrated that each church had their own strategy for being multi-site; therefore, proving that for any church to become a multi-site church, then it doesn’t have to sacrifice its identity to become vanilla or cookie-cutter in essence.
