The Minister's MBA: Essential Business Tools for Maximum Ministry Success by George S. BabbesMy rating: 1 of 5 stars
While the concept of the book is good (utilising principles from the business world for ministry), and the naming of chapter titles seemingly decent, however the content is quite a let down. I'm not familiar with who these authors are (perhaps because my primary area of interest in theology is ecclesiology), but my best guess is that a group of secular business people decided to band together to write a book and package it for the Christian ministers to buy it for a quick buck.
A case could perhaps be made that seminary does not prepare a young minister well to run a church operationally. However to have a book almost devoid of Scripture and expect ministers to use it as a guidebook is perhaps not too wise. A church is not built on intellect or business principles; its foundation has to be on the word of God. I only spotted 2 paragraphs in the beginning of the book that referred to something about Jesus' disciples and Matt 10:16 - quite interesting how a methodology can be developed from a single narrative of the bible. And further down in the book, how Joseph got sold into slavery in Gen. 37 is used as an example of the result of perceived inequity.
I cannot recommend this book.
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