This book may also help revitalize our congregational role of choosing and sending young people into preparation for ministry. We need to produce more pastors than our churches can use. Numerous denominations are reaching beyond themselves to find pastors. Esau s writing is clear, encouraging, and understanding. Most church leaders need to work more effectively at being enablers of others, of discerning the gifts of the Spirit in the congregation, and releasing those gifts by engaging persons in the work of the church.
Most pastors are too controlling, too inflexible, too much in charge.
They can better be an understanding coach. The pastor should maximize the potential of the congregation as a team to actualize the presence of Christ. Esau emphasizes this balance. The involvement of the congregation in the worship service, too often minimized, is given importance in this book. The pastor needs to seek to remove the performer-spectator pattern of many churches.