Sailboat Church: Helping Your Church Rethink Its Mission and Practice

Is your church a rowboat church or a sailboat church?



Rowboat churches depend largely on human effort. When church budgets shrink and membership declines, rowboat churches frantically row harder against a current, often frustrated and disappointed at their efforts. Sailboat churches, on the other hand, take up the oars, hoist sails, and rely on the Holy Spirit to guide them.



Arguing that churches should be "sailboats," Joan S. Gray encourages listeners to shift concern from the many daily, pr...