Excommunicated

<p>More than forty years ago Danny Burnley was formally disassociated — excommunicated — from his home church. His “crime”? As a young deacon he went to the pastor and asked him to prayerfully consider holding a reconciliation service to help heal the ongoing friction that existed between the pastor and the deacons.<br />        Dismissal from his church’s fellowship was “the worst thing and the best thing” that had ever happened to him. It was the worst thing because it was like a divorce that tore apart a family but it was the best thing because it ignited in Burnley a God-given desire to help struggling churches which he has been busy doing for the last four decades.<br />        In <em>Excommunicated: 11 Steps to Church Revitalization</em> Burnley offers the lessons he has learned in helping churches battle against ineffectiveness. Through his ministry he has helped bring churches back from the brink of closure.</p>