The Challenge of Church Growth
Author: Wilbert R. Shenk
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2001-02-12
Total Pages: 111
ISBN-13: 1579105807
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Author: Wilbert R. Shenk
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2001-02-12
Total Pages: 111
ISBN-13: 1579105807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Elmer L. Towns
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780842304085
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ruben Lee Speaks
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Published: 199?
Total Pages: 59
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mark A. Noll
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2022-03-15
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 1467464627
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the Christianity Today Book of the Year Award (1995) “The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.” So begins this award-winning intellectual history and critique of the evangelical movement by one of evangelicalism’s most respected historians. Unsparing in his indictment, Mark Noll asks why the largest single group of religious Americans—who enjoy increasing wealth, status, and political influence—have contributed so little to rigorous intellectual scholarship. While nourishing believers in the simple truths of the gospel, why have so many evangelicals failed to sustain a serious intellectual life and abandoned the universities, the arts, and other realms of “high” culture? Over twenty-five years since its original publication, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind has turned out to be prescient and perennially relevant. In a new preface, Noll lays out his ongoing personal frustrations with this situation, and in a new afterword he assesses the state of the scandal—showing how white evangelicals’ embrace of Trumpism, their deepening distrust of science, and their frequent forays into conspiratorial thinking have coexisted with surprisingly robust scholarship from many with strong evangelical connections.
Author: Zach Zehnder
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Published: 2020-09-08
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ISBN-13: 9781951022099
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeing Challenge is a 40-day study designed to help you grow in your relationship with God. Many people want to be greater followers of Jesus, and they want some handles on the process. It doesn't start with rules-it starts with a relationship. The best way to grow in our relationship with God is to learn from Jesus, the one who had a perfect relationship with Him. Jesus' love and life demonstrate habits that point us to God and transform our lives. Are you ready?
Author: Robert E. Logan
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 1990-01-01
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 1441236716
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on God's vision for churches in Matthew 28:18-20, this book presents sound methods for making disciples, winning the lost for Christ, and planting new churches.
Author: Gary L. McIntosh
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2009-09-01
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1441210857
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAll local churches experience a predictable life cycle of growth and decline. But if a church is on a downward trend, how can it turn around? Taking Your Church to the Next Level explains the impact of age and size on churches and outlines the improvements that must be made at each point for a church to remain fruitful and faithful to its mission. McIntosh deftly describes the cycles of fruitfulness and the importance of continual improvement to diminish destructive forces that keep a congregation from its mission. Church leaders, pastors, and all who care about the church and desire to see it experience biblical growth will benefit from the sage wisdom offered in these pages.
Author: Will Mancini
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2020-12-01
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 1493427806
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChurch growth models have often been long on promises and short on disciple-making. We continue to watch consistent church attendance shrink, and our desire to reach the lost is infected with a need for self-validation by growing our numbers at any cost. If we believe that God wants his church to grow, where do we go from here? What is the future of the church? Drawing from his 20 years and 15,000 hours of consulting, author Will Mancini shares with pastors and ministry leaders the single most important insight he has learned about church growth. With plenty of salient stories and based solidly on the disciple-making methods found in Scripture, Future Church exposes the church's greatest challenge today, and offers 7 transforming laws of real church growth so that we can faithfully and joyfully fulfill Jesus's Great Commission.
Author: Jason A. Fout
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Published: 2019-11
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780880284783
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of a Gold Medal - 2020 Illumination Book Awards Crucial reading for everyone committed to evangelism and church growth. -Michael B. Curry, Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church As most mainline Christian denominations struggle with declining numbers, the Church of England in the Diocese of London is bucking the trend. In one of the most diverse, multi-faith, urban, and pluralistic cities in the world, London churches are growing and thriving against the odds, proclaiming the gospel afresh, and meeting the needs of their communities in creative, innovative, and life-changing ways. Based on more than six years of study, Jason A. Fout offers lessons from London, a road map to growth and revitalization for American churches-big and small, historic and newly started, evangelical and Anglo-Catholic. This remarkable guide offers practical tools as well as insight and inspiration for all who care about the future of the church.
Author: Reggie McNeal
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2009-03-23
Total Pages: 183
ISBN-13: 0470503815
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this provocative book, author, consultant, and church leadership developer Reggie McNeal debunks these and other old assumptions and provides an overall strategy to help church leaders move forward in an entirely different and much more effective way. In The Present Future, McNeal identifies the six most important realities that church leaders must address including: recapturing the spirit of Christianity and replacing "church growth" with a wider vision of kingdom growth; developing disciples instead of church members; fostering the rise of a new apostolic leadership; focusing on spiritual formation rather than church programs; and shifting from prediction and planning to preparation for the challenges of an uncertain world. McNeal contends that by changing the questions church leaders ask themselves about their congregations and their plans, they can frame the core issues and approach the future with new eyes, new purpose, and new ideas.