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74 (58). What Fox demonstrates throughout his eighth chapter is that programs in a church should exist to serve a specific purpose and will most-likely tarry for only a season (56). The purpose will be for the needs of the people in the church. His critique of age-organized church programs is that they too often drive the church when it should be the people driving the church (52). Again, in certain contradiction to NCFIC, Fox does not suggest that “any church that offers a Sunday school program is outside the will of God and therefore disobedient” (55). He does offer, though, that too many churches are deceiving themselves thinking that these programs are the best way to reach the children of the congregation (55). The collection of illustrations and philosophical discourses do not tell how to establish a family-integrated church model in an existing church or in a church plant. Readers should keep in mind that Fox’s book is descriptive and not prescriptive. Fox shares his experience, and that of Antioch Community Church, as an example of what God can do when the hearts of the people are aligned and unified (138). As with any text, readers should be cautioned against reading this treatise as a handbook for planting a family-integrated church and rather identify the key components that allowed the leadership of the church to best meet the needs of the congregation and apply certain practices accordingly. Church leaders will need to consider differences in context, demographics, and resources before presenting Antioch’s journey as the means to transition and grow their church. Fox’s book is saturated with Scripture references. Eighteen of the twenty chapters of his book provide reference to Scripture in some way. Fox’s presentation of direct scriptural support for a family-integrated church, however, could have been stronger. Scriptural support for worshipping together as a family would have strengthened the text and would have made the text more useful for pastors and church leaders seeking the same type of changes Antioch Community Church experienced. Lorrie Francis, Ph.D. Adjunct Instructor, Lancaster Bible College with W. Ryan Steenburg, Ph.D.
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