Introduction: Left behind with purpose
Personal reflections on left-behind churches
The Wal-Mart gospel blues
The precipice-driven pastor
Burnout in the parsonage and parish
Literature, seminars, and theory of church growth
Left behind with a woman's touch
Left behind with a sense of humor
The messiness of the left-behind church
Spiritual memories of the church in the valley
The church in the valley of the shadow of death
New life for the left-behind church.