Book Review Blurb: The Mentoring Church

Book Review Score – 10 out of 10

Book Title: The Mentoring Church: How Pastors and Congregations Cultivate Leaders by Phil A. Newton (published by Kregel Publications, 2017)

I have greatly benefitted from this author’s writing in the past (e.g., Elders in the Life of the Church). What you will discover when you read this book is a “how to” manual for developing leaders in the church. What you will benefit from is a biblical exposition of how the early church mentored its men. What you will enjoy is seeing the leadership development strategies of key leaders throughout church history (e.g. Zwingli, Calvin, Spener, Gano, Spurgeon, Bonhoeffer). What will speak to your heart is Chapter 2 when the leadership development ministry of Jesus is unpacked. What will provoke many good questions for your church staff and leadership team going forward are Chapters 10-13 where different church models of how they train leaders are explained.

I would highly commend this church to elders and deacons who are needing or looking to be more proactive in developing male leaders in their church.

I would like to thank Kregel Publications for giving me a copy of this book to read, review and apply to my current ministry.