<p>This book tells the story of Pastor Steve Palmer and his church in the small Northwest Michigan town of Hartlin.&nbsp; They face many of the same challenges that we all do to become the people God has called them and us to become.&nbsp; St. Thomas Church is both fiction and non-fiction.&nbsp; Because the people and many of the places in this book are completely made-up but the message of these parables apply to all of us at one time or another.</p><p>This Novel can best be called a pre-church growth book.&nbsp; It does not offer strategies to grow your church but is meant to be used as a mirror in personal devotions and as a small group study to ask where am I or we in relationship to where we ought to be.&nbsp; This book does not promote anything goes mentality but instead promotes being God&rsquo;s hands feet and mouth to the world outside our doors not just on Sunday but every second of every day of every moment.</p><p>This book does this by telling several short stories and then asking questions that are meant to promote discussion and hopefully action (and if needed change).&nbsp; Now go forth and change your world.</p>