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By Ted Haggard

If you are an analytical person like I am, you will love this book. Ted Haggard is an apostle to the church of America and has a healthy, strong church that gives authority to everything he says. Reading his philosophies and convictions about church ministry has been invaluable to me. It has stirred up thought processes and ideas in my mind and heart about the way we do church currently and the way my generation will do church in the future.
My favorite part of this book was how Haggard systematically went through every major area of ministry in the church, explaining how his church has structured that particular area. I grew passionate about each category as I genuinely felt the passion that Haggard feels for it. It was obvious to me that he loves his job as a senior pastor and absolutely loves his staff and congregation.
This book has definitely impacted my thinking about how to structure a church as well as encouraged me to dream about how we can become more like Christ and better serve people through our local churches. If you value hearing from men of God who have been successful in their personal relationship with God as well as in their family and ministry, you cannot pass up this book. It is a little older, written in 2001, but it's message is just as pertinent today as it was 5 years ago. I am convinced after reading this book that the counsel of Ted Haggard can make the difference on whether you simply do ministry or are a minister of the life of God in the lives of the people around you. This one is going on my book shelf as a must read for up and coming leaders after me.