This brief and expensively priced book comes from the pens of a Professor of Theology in the University of Kent and the former Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia. Targeted specifically at church leaders, it seeks to contribute to arresting the decline of churchgoing in Britain by some fresh thinking about strategic church leadership. The university experience of both authors, though different from each other, is not incidental to this volume, for it is argued that certain management skills developed within that institutional framework are effectively applicable to church life. Although the Church cannot be handled as though it had not distinctive institutional features, strategy is important, and the concluding chapters on strategic planning, ownership and outcomes wind up a discussion which begins with ‘Strategic Leaders in the Acts of the Apostles’.

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