How does a restaurant or hotel earn a five-star rating? Is it the people? The location? The service? The amenities? In most cases, it is all of this and more: an overall sense that the customer is to be valued, honored and treated well. Jesus' life was like that: a sacrificial offering of love for those He loved and cared about. In "The Five-Star Church", pastor/ how to transform your church based on Jesus' model of servant hood. With humor and fresh insight, they provide tangible steps on how to build a church whose number one goal is to serve God and others-the mark of a five-star church.
STAN TOLER is senior pastor of Trinity Church of the Nazarene in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and hosts the television program "Mission Today." For the past ten years he has taught seminars for INJOY Group, a leadership development institute. Toler has written over 45 books, including his best-sellers' God Has Never Failed Me, But He's Sure Scared Me to Death a Few Times, The Five-Star Church and, his latest book,The Buzzards Are Circling, but God's Not Finished with Me Yet.
ALAN E. NELSON, Ed.D. pastored 20 years, is the former executive editor of Rev! magazine, and has authored 14 books (www.alanenelson.com). He is the founder of KidLead (www.kidlead.com), a non-profit organization dedicated to identifying and developing leaders while they’re moldable. Alan and his family live near Monterey, CA.