David Mathis has written a review of The Trellis and the Vine by Colin Marshall and Tony Payne. You can read it at The Briefing.

Here's how he summarizes the book's overarching metaphor:

The vine of Christian ministry is people; the trellis is the various organizational structures that exist for the health of the vine. So vine work is “the work of watering and planting and helping people to grow in Christ”, while trellis work has to do with “rosters, property and building issues, committees, finances, budgets, overseeing the church office, planning and running events” (p. 9). The warning the authors offer repeatedly is that our tendency in Christian ministry is to let the trellis work take over the vine work (p. 9).

And here's his takeaway at the end:

I think you should engage with The Trellis and the Vine for yourself. Don't expect ministry secrets; Marshall and Payne admit that they offer “no new special technique, no magic bullet, and no guaranteed path to ministry success and stardom” (p. 151).

But beware: this is a dangerous book. Experiencing this mind-shift may mean radical changes in your church (like closing down some long-beloved programmed ministry) in order to make time for discipleship: “It may mean a revolution in the way the church staff see their ministry—not as service-providers, or managers, but as trainers” (p. 156).