If your church's spiritual condition demands that you explore causative factors other than those you already suspect, Becoming a Healthy Church may not be as helpful as you would like. Even so, Stephen Macchia's book raises safe, but essential and meaningful questions about your church's health. Preaching at its best rises to the occasion of the time. As the world passes through such a significant event as the turn of the millennium, preachers have a rare opportunity to help people make meaningful spiritual adjustment. Seize the season.
Transition times prompt people to think serious thoughts.
Emotions will intensify with the countdown. Killinger shares biblical themes that connect with people's feelings. Sermons are included. Preaching the future reign of God creates a sense of his work in the now. The church needs to recapture the biblical concept of kingdom as God's reign on earth.