Lamb or Beast

Introduction This critical review of Total Church by Steve Timmis and Tim Chester is written from the perspective of someone who personally experienced the practical and theological outworking of the ideas proposed in the book. Having attended Grace Church Boroughbridge, a church previously pastored by Tim Chester. I was exposed to a church culture shaped heavily by the authors’ ecclesiology. The first major red flag was bad hermeneutics of “what does that verse mean to you”