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Author: Thom S. Rainer
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Published: 2011-06
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0805447997
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Now in paperback, this multi-awarded national best seller shares a clear message from case studies of 400 North American congregations: church is done best when it's kept simple.
Author: Tony Dale
Publisher: Karis Publishing
Published: 2000-09
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780971804012
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this book the authors explore some dynamic trends in society and church that are pushing believers into simpler ways of doing church. -- from back cover.
Author: Robert Morris
Publisher: WaterBrook Press
Published: 2012-08-21
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0307729737
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Discusses what makes a strong church and offers practical advice for cultivating a healthy spiritual community.
Author: Ed Stetzer
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1433669307
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →It is time to take heart and rework the scorecard. --
Author: V. David Garrison
Publisher: WIGTake Resources
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780974756202
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →David Garrison, PhD University of Chicago, defines Church Planting Movements as rapidly multiplying indigenous churches planting churches that sweep across a people group or population segment. Garrison's Church Planting Movements: How God Is Redeeming a Lost World signaled a breakthrough in missionary church planting. After the publication of Garrison's book in 2004 it became impossible to talk about missions without referencing Church Planting Movements. Church Planting Movements examines more than two-dozen movements of multiplying churches on five continents. After presenting these case studies, Garrison identifies ten universal elements present in each movement. He then broadens the circle of examination to identify a further ten common characteristics, factors identified in most, but not all, of the movements. He concludes his examination with a list of "Seven Deadly Sins," i.e. harmful practices that stifle or impede Church Planting Movements. Important for evangelical readers, the author returns to his findings to see how they stand up to the light of Scripture. What he discovers is that Church Planting Movements are much more consistent with the New Testament lay-led house-church movements that swept rapidly through the Mediterranean world in the face of hostile opposition than today's more sedentary professional institutionalized Christianity. Learn more about Church Planting Movements from the book's website: www.ChurchPlantingMovements.com.
Author: Thom S. Rainer
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 0805448861
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This text extends the teachings of bestseller "Simple Church," guiding readers to joyfully balance God, time, relationships, and money through clarity, movement, focus, and alignment.
Author: Dave Browning
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 0310285674
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Learn how a "less is more" approach to church can equip believers for eternal influence. Church innovator Dave Browning unpacks the six elements of a new equation for church development. These concepts---minimality, intentionality, reality, multility, velocity, and scalability---provide a realistic plan for streamlining church while maximizing impact.
Author: Larry Osborne
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2008-12-30
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 031031299X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Why closing the back door of your church is even more important than opening the front door wider. In Sticky Church, author and pastor Larry Osborne offers a time-tested strategy for doing so: sermon-based small groups that dig deeper into the weekend message and tightly velcro members to the ministry. It's a strategy that enabled Osborne's congregation to grow from a handful of people to one of the larger churches in the nation—without any marketing or special programming. Sticky Church tells the inspiring story of North Coast Church's phenomenal growth and offers practical tips for launching your own sermon-based small group ministry. Topics include: Why stickiness is so important Why most of our discipleship models don't work very well Why small groups always make a church more honest and transparent What makes groups grow deeper and sticker over time Sticky Church is an ideal book for church leaders who want to start or retool their small group ministry—and velcro their congregation to the Bible and each other.
Author: Scott W. Sunquist
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2019-07-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0830852387
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Is a church just something we create to serve our purposes or to maintain old traditions? Or is it something more vital, more meaningful, and more powerful? In this introduction to the nature of the local church, historian and missionary Scott Sunquist brings us a portrait of the church in motion, clarifying the two primary purposes of the church: worship and witness.
Author: Chris Creech
Publisher:
Published: 2019-10
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781602250109
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Every year, thousands of pastors are forced from their ministries, many never to return. Studies reveal that forced terminations, once having occurred in a local church, often repeat themselves in the same church, demonstrating a pattern of dysfunction and difficulty within those fellowships. In Toxic Church, Creech examines how the patterns of family dysfunction find their way into the life of the local church, often producing severe conflict, causing division, enabling sin, and even ending the ministry of the pastor and possibly even the local church. Creech outlines a plan for recognizing dysfunction within the church family, diagnosing the root causes of that dysfunction and taking steps to protect the church and the pastor from what many now call the epidemic caused by toxic churches and the clergy killers within them.
