Discover the tools to create a new kind of church and move frommerely surviving to thriving. Drawing on an extensive two-year field study of 200 churches froma variety of denominations and geographic regions, MilfredMinatrea--a missiologist, urban strategist and practioner inminister--presents the best practices for re-energizing Christianspirituality in a congregational setting. He provides readers withthe tools for assessing their congregation?s position on thecontinuum between maintenance and mission and for determining theactions that will move them toward becoming a missional community.He also outlines key strategies that successful churches have usedto become relevant in a postmodern society without losing what isdistinctly Christian in their spiritual practices. Milfred Minatrea (Irving, TX) is Director of the MissionalChurch Center for the Baptist General Convention of Texas.