Discover Your Windows

Unmasks the hidden "worldviews" that stand in the way of congregationalvitality and mission.

They are problems withwhich every pastor is familiar: dwindling attendance in Sunday school classes; highlevels of gossip and dissatisfaction; widespread apathy; weak financial support;inability to reach out to the unchurched. These and similar difficulties confoundcongregational leaders every day. Why are they often so difficult to address? Why dothe programs put in place to remove these problems sometimes wind up adding to them?It is because these are not the problems themselves, but rather their symptoms.

If you wish to get to the real problem, you have to address theunderlying assumptions, perspectives, and attitudes that cause these symptoms. Youhave to root out the false, unbiblical worldviews that lie at the heart of theproblem. Discovering those worldviews is what Kent R. Hunter's proposalDiscover Your Windows is all about.

Throughyears of working with individual congregations, and in the process of conductingnearly 15,000 interviews with individual church members, he has discovered theunderlying perspectives that prevent churches from becoming the centers of witnessand ministry God calls them to be. In this new book he summarizes what he haslearned into 10 destructive worldviews, and demonstrates the biblical alternative.For example, to the prevalent yet false worldview that the main purpose ofChristians in the church is to provide a place of fellowship and share God's lovewith each other, he posits the biblical worldview that the main purpose ofChristians in the church is to make disciples of Jesus Christ.Read less