Reviews and Endorsements

When the Church was a Family “well resourced and easy to read… should be required reading in seminary classes”

“I do not know of a single resource on the New Testament and the contemporary importance of community and family that is so well resourced and easy to read as Hellerman’s When the Church was a Family.  But this book is not simply a detailed factual and biblical analysis of Western individualism and biblical community.  Its pages brim with deeply moving, hope-filled points and insightful practical application.  This book should be required reading in seminary classes on the nature of the church and by pastoral staffs who wish to develop community among their people.” 

- JP Moreland, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Talbot School of Theology, and author of Kingdom Triangle.