“You have a decision to make. One way or another you will have to choose. Not whether your church dies, but how. And why. Upon that decision rests your church’s health and future.”
Jack Reese
At the Blue Hole: Elegy for a Church on the Edge (Eerdmans, 2021)
“Few in the church write with such penetrating insight and courageous honesty.”
Wesley Granberg-Michaelson
ACCLAIM for At the Blue Hole
“riveting” —Richard Hughes
“masterful” —Rubel Shelly
“courageous” —Brian McLaren
“personal and prophetic” —Max Lucado
“honest and humble” —Rick Atchley
“a prophetic call to come back to Jesus” —Elaine Heath
“rich in detail, told with humor and deep affection” —Monte Cox
“compelling, relentless, urgent” —Leonard Allen
“eloquent, a stirring call to faithfulness”—Douglas Foster
“captivating and at times chilling” —Charles Rix
“impeccable scholarship and vivid storytelling” —Randy Harris
“engaging and thoughtful, easy to read and hard to put down” —Rick Marrs
“resources for the rebirth of dying congregations” —Newell Williams
“the voice of a prophet, the mind of a historian, the heart of a pastor” —Ken Cukrowski
“this book will help us get our bearings and chart our future” —Royce Money
“great insight, extraordinary creativity, surprising resources”—Tom Olbricht
“this is the book you and your church need”—Sean Palmer
“an essential read” —Dan Bouchelle