Fusion by Nelson Searcy saved my butt

I’ve been reading the book Fusion by Nelson Searcy and it is very good. It talks about the assimilation process of churches and gives some very practical insight and advice on narrowing the back door of your church. It has a lot of good stuff in it, and it has a lot of stuff that you can begin to use in your church right now. We’re definitely going to be implementing a lot of the stuff in our church when we begin meeting publicly. I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in fortifying their assimilation/first impressions/guest services in their church. Go buy it if you don’t already have it.

Tonight I was very thankful that I purchased it, because as the title of this post says, the book saved my butt. I headed out to my daughter’s track meet this evening and I grabbed the book to read in between her events. When I got to the track, the temperature was about 38 degrees and the wind was blowing about 20mph. So needless to say it was very cold. I sat down on the frozen metal bleachers and the chill shot right through me. The wind was blowing and I was shivering. After about 5 minutes I knew I was not going to get any reading done because of the wind and I was shaking too much to hold the book still. I thought I would go into hypothermia and quite possibly die.

Rather than hold the book, I sat on it. The 180 some pages were enough to raise me up off the frozen bleacher and increase my body temperature by a couple degrees. So Nelson, if you happen to read this post, I just want to thank you from the bottom of my butt for writing Fusion, because it saved my life.