TY - BOOK AU - Tucker,Ruth TI - Left behind in a megachurch world: how God works through ordinary churches SN - 0801012694 (cloth) AV - BV637.8 .T83 2006 U1 - 250.973 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Grand Rapids, Mich. PB - Baker Books KW - Small churches N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-217) and index; Introduction: Left behind with purpose -- Personal reflections on left-behind churches -- The Wal-Mart gospel blues -- The precipice-driven pastor -- A left-behind theology -- Burnout in the parsonage and parish -- Megachurch mania -- Literature, seminars, and theory of church growth -- Left behind with a woman's touch -- Left behind in community -- Left behind with a sense of humor -- The messiness of the left-behind church -- Spiritual memories of the church in the valley -- The church in the valley of the shadow of death -- New life for the left-behind church ER -