Am about half way finished with this book and so far am enjoying it.  May encourage me to read the Purpose Driven Church.

A couple things worth noting:

1. In talking about the role of volunteers in the youth ministry I loved this comment:
"Volunteers won't stay involved with a youth ministry for an extended amount of time if they don't have significant responsibilities."

While this is targeted to the youth ministry I think it is correct about ANY ministry.  If the worker can't/doesn't get a sense of ownership, then they won't hang around.  This is the difference between poor delegation and great delegation.  If a leaders idea of delegation is that the 'lower' worker has to seek permission about 80% of what they do, then they won't feel ownership.  A leader should really trust their 'workers' to make the right decision 95% of the time, and understand that the 5% of the time they don't is usually small enough to be overcome.

2. In a section talking about discipleship, the author talks about how his initial structure was about relationships and teaching.  But he noticed that wasn't working.  So he added a part to discipleship that involves personal spiritual habits.  Basically teach them to live the life when nobody is watching.  Teach them to have the habits of a Christian, from their own decision and not the decision of their parents or church leadership.

This book is soooo related to every church ministry and not just the youth ministry.  Glad I am reading it!