The Peacemaking Pastor: A Biblical Guide to Resolving Church Conflict by Alfred PoirierMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
For readers who have read his colleague Ken Sande's The Peacemaker, this book's formatting would be bizarrely similar; they are after all president and chairman of Peacemaker Ministries. I respect Poirier's brave confession that his pastoral ministry "has been shaped by reformation theology and Presbyterian ecclesiology" and therefore cannot claim to write from a "broadly evangelical, much less ecumenical, perspective"(p15). I appreciate how in spite of his clear experience in the field of peacemaking and church conflict resolution, Poirier writes with a refreshing humble stroke of his pen.
Why the book overall is informative, I felt that a heavy dose of brevity would do it much good - cutting maybe 50-100 pages with better editing and removing repetitive content could make it a masterpiece in the church conflict/resolution category. Often I felt that going through the content was a chore and I struggled to remain engaged in the material. Maybe the content would work better in the form of a week-long seminar, but presented in its current textual form, it needs to be made far more concise and captivating.
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