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# Simple Church: Returning to God's Process for Making Disciples

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Review: Clear and profound - Simple Church provides a thoughtful, clear, and evidence-based approach to “How” the church manages, communicates, and executes a vision. I’m a couple of decades late to the game, but I am now glad to be playing.
Review: Great read - easy to read, short, and full of information necessary for today.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #39,187 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #19 in Christian Church Growth (Books) #50 in Evangelism #139 in Christian Discipleship (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (994) |
| Dimensions  | 6 x 0.83 x 9 inches |
| Edition  | New |
| ISBN-10  | 0805447997 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0805447996 |
| Item Weight  | 12.5 ounces |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 296 pages |
| Publication date  | June 1, 2011 |
| Publisher  | B&H Books |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Clear and profound
*by C***E on October 30, 2025*

Simple Church provides a thoughtful, clear, and evidence-based approach to “How” the church manages, communicates, and executes a vision. I’m a couple of decades late to the game, but I am now glad to be playing.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great read
*by J***R on December 15, 2025*

easy to read, short, and full of information necessary for today.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Slightly Helpful, but also Problematic
*by Z***H on November 9, 2018*

This is a book I struggled with. Overall, I love the general idea of the book: simplifying the ministry of the church to more effectively disciple people in their Christian walks. But there were a few elements which gave me pause: First, the emphasis upon research data. They touch on the fact that a healthy church is not about numbers, but about people living as God called them, but that acknowledgement is buried beneath chapter and chapters which point towards the size or numerical growth of a church as an indicator of whether or not it was healthy. I love research data, but there were also times when their research indicated that there were a decent amount of churches which did not meet their definition of "simple" yet were still thriving. This latter reality did not seem to be addressed. I would have appreciated at least a chapter or (minimally) a few pages discussing why this might "work." But most troubling, the emphasis upon data instead of an emphasis upon what a healthy spirituality looks like. Second, there is minimal scriptural support for the principles expressed in the book. This is the most troubling to me. While scripture is quoted and referenced (in some chapters more sparingly than others), upon a closer examination frequently the scripture doesn't actually support or advocate the point. It is used illustratively or to support a peripheral point supporting the main thesis of the chapter. All this adds up to a "sense" of scriptural support, but without there really being too much solid, scriptural exegesis supporting the points of the book. The research data supports it, but the scriptural support is weak (in this, I'm referring to what is communicated in the book; Rainer and Geiger are smart guys, and I'm sure they have more scriptural support than they actually communicated in the book). Third, I was sorely disappointed by the lack of an articulation of any sort of ecclesiology in the book. I think this flows from the first two problems mentioned above. Better scriptural support would have led them to summarize scripture in a theological manner, which would have led to at least a minimal articulation (a single chapter, at least) outlining primary biblical elements of a church. For what this book was arguing. With the subtitle "Returning to God's Process for Making Disciples" a failure to adequately point towards some biblical foundations for discipleship for a church (even if these would be general values) is a pretty huge oversight. This book is, at best, a book focusing on leadership principles for leading a religious organization. But the leadership principles advocated are more commercially based than scripturally founded. Lastly, the writers refer to themselves as "nerds" and the book as a "nerdy" book. As a "nerd" myself, I found the simplistic writing style of the book insulting and ultimately detrimental to the book's argument. The simplicity glossed over elements which needed a deeper treatment. I suspect the simple writing style was an attempt for the execution of the argument to match the title, but as a pastor who wanted to really dig his teeth into this idea, I was left with more questions than answers. The reason I really wrestle with recommending this book, and why (in the end) I gave it four stars instead of three, is that overall the book does advocate some good principles which actually have some scriptural merit. Unfortunately I think the book over-values its research data (an entirely different cultural and social problem in the West), and that undercuts how a leader should be truly evaluating his/her church: through eyes and values shaped by scriptures. Rainer and Geiger do not deny the latter (they actually advocate it in the postscript), but their practice in the book elevates data points over scriptural exegesis. Can it be a helpful book? Yes...but it need to be balanced with other books that do proper exegetical and ecclesiological book. This book would probably best be used after studying books that do the proper scriptural and theological work, because then the ideas contained in Simple Church could be critiqued and analyzed in light of the scriptural and exegetical work that has already been explored.

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