Analysis Of Church Unique

Church Unique is a well-written book concerned with the development and implementation of a vision. Will Mancini writes with a passion and desire for leader to be able to see and communicate the God sized vision that God has for their church. Mancini mentions his one purpose in writing: “…to challenge you to find your Church Unique – that is, to live a vision that creates a stunningly unique, movement – oriented church” (xxii). There are many church growth models and fads available today, yet Mancini steers his readers away from such concepts and ideas. A vision must be specific to a certain context, thus it is unique to the context of the organization.
Church Unique is a post-modern approach to strategic planning and vision casting. The book
Comment: It makes sense to come to an understanding of ones passions and desires that will then translate to future goals. Therefore, one cannot look to other church, for they are accomplishing their call, rather all churches should be focused on their own call.

“Leaders today have not clearly discerned the uniqueness of their church” (9).
Comment: It seems that leaders look for the easiest and fastest way to do church. There seems to be a lack of time for one to sit down and begin working on vision casting. Vision casting takes time and hard
Comment: People need to be discipled in the basic disciplines of the Christian life. This will serve them we by providing a framework from which they can live and function from.

Disagree:

“Culture is the combined effect of the interacting values, thoughts, attitudes, and actions that define the life of your church” (7)
Comment: This seems, as Mancini notes, to be hard to define. This would be true and easy for small churches, but the large one get, it seems like it would be harder.
“Chuck Colson writes, ‘Modern, Christians, especially evangelicals, see the Christian faith primarily if not exclusively as the gospel of ‘Jesus and me’” (89).
Comment: This does not seem to be true currently. Since the book was written, in 2008, there has been a movement that focuses on the communal aspect of Christianity. It would a benefit for Mancini to update this in any further editions.

More Thought:

“Culture is the combined effects of the interacting values, thoughts, attitudes, and actions that define the life of your church”