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From the inside flap of the book jacket:

Most pastors hunger to lead a healthy, thriving passionate church. But for many, the challenges of leadership are anything but a joy. Approaches and programs that used to work do not anymore. The very landscape of the church and of culture have blurred beyond recognition.

Pastors Mike Green and Walt Kallestad were intimately familiar with the challenges and each began a search for lasting, satisfying answers. Their search resulted in LifeShapes - eight biblical truths that transformed their churches and the lives of the people in them!

LifeShapes is based on eight memorable shapes that represent life-changing principles. These simple shapes form a framework for every believer to understand their relationship to Christ, to each other, and ultimately lead to church growth as people make disciples who can also make disciples!

About the Author(s):

Michael Breen is Senior Pastor of St. Thomas Church in Sheffield, England. Creator of LifeShapes, Michael recently moved to the U.S. to teach Fuller Theological Seminary in Fullerton, California and to serve on the staff of Community Church of Joy in Glendale, Arizona.

Walt Kallestad is Senior Pastor of Community Church of Joy in Glendale, Arizona, a church with more than 12,000 members. He is a contemporary of Bill Hybels and Rick Warren. He has authored two books: Turn Your Church Inside Out (Augsburg Fortress, 2001) and The Entrepreneurial Faith (Waterbrook, 2004).