Your rural church is special. It is different. Your church has its own particular traditions and its own distinctive personality. All rural churches, however, will have one important element in common: they will all eventually need to deal with one or more of these five common ailments: Prayerlessness Lack of Biblical Preaching One-size-fits-all Stagnation Tolerance toward Sin This book will equip you, the concerned pastor, lay leader, or church member to diagnose and treat these ailments."