Foreword by John MacArthur. Do pastors and church leaders today really need a wake-up call to return to the apostolic priorities of preaching and prayer as the primary means to accomplish church growth? In an age in which the church has become infatuated with pragmatism, success models, sociological methodologies, management techniques and marketing, the answer is a resounding "Yes." The goal of this book is to exhort and encourage pastors and church leaders to escape the full court press of expediency and to restart as offense of biblical priorities and methods. The church will not impact society until she regains her love for preaching and a no-compromise commitment to sound, biblical exposition.

The value of this MENTOR title (first published in 1996 and revised in 2009) is that it not only shows us where the problems are but gives us a healthy reminder of the essentiality of prayer and preaching.

David Eby has pastored independent and Presbyterian churches in the US for 34 years. He and his wife of 40 years are now missionaries in Uganda. David teaches at Westminster Theological College and is the Dean of Westminster Theological Seminary in Kampala, which he helped to establish in 2007. He has studied hundreds of volumes of literature of the church growth movement, is committed to training East African pastors in biblical church growth to lead healthy, God-centered, grace-saturated, Christ-exalting churches through gospel-driven preaching.