Book Review: Community by Brad House

What was the church created to be? As Christian we believe that the church was created to be the agent God use to bring glory to his name by sending people out to proclaim the gospel. The church is also created to be a community, a gospel-centered community.

Community is what Brad House writes about in his book appropriately titled, Community, where he takes what he has learned from helping get community groups together at Mars Hill Church. He even talks about what a gospel-centered community is suppose to be and look like from a biblical prospective, which you cannot have a gospel-centered community without the Bible.

House also talks about why we need these community groups and what their primary functions are suppose to be. He gives several models for everyone to look at and ponder. In the appendix there are some plans to get a group started as well as job descriptions for a community group leader, coach, and even Community pastor/Pastor of Small Groups.

This book came out about the same time as Bill Clem's Disciple, which is a perfect companion to go with this book. If you want to start a community group or your church is starting to go in that direction, this book is one to read.

Thanks Crossway for letting me review this book.