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title: "Offsite Review: Community is Messy by Heather Zempel"
description: "As someone that is part of a large mega-church.  And who is getting ready to head off to dinner with my small group.  This books (Community is Messy: The Perils and Promise of Small Group Ministry..."
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date: 2012-12-19
modified: 2012-12-19
author: "Adam Shields"
categories: ["Off Site Reviews"]
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# Offsite Review: Community is Messy by Heather Zempel

[![Community is Messy: The Perils and Promise of Small Group Ministry Heather Zempel](https://bookwi.se/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/51ZxcJ2AcuL-199x300.jpg)](http://erb.kingdomnow.org/heather-zempel-community-is-messy-review/)As someone that is part of a large mega-church.  And who is getting ready to head off to dinner with my small group.  This books (Community is Messy: The Perils and Promise of Small Group Ministry by Heather Zempel) sounds like it would be right up my alley.  Reviewed by Sam Edgin over all [Englewood Review of Books](http://erb.kingdomnow.org/heather-zempel-community-is-messy-review/). (Quote is from the last 1/3 of the review)

> This may be exactly what you need to jump-start your ministry. Zempel lays out solid ideas for creating a small group culture that is thriving and prepared to deal with the most uncomfortable messes Christians can conjure up. She thrives here: in fearlessly confronting what so many like to ignore ““ that its probably more difficult to live the right way with a bunch of other Christians than it is to do just about anything else. As the Church is corporately beginning to dance with a Christian life that acknowledges its problems and flaunts its failures, perhaps Zempel is just the voice needed to help construct realistic discipleship.

[Read the whole review at Englewood Review of Books](http://erb.kingdomnow.org/heather-zempel-community-is-messy-review/)