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Author: Norma Cook Everist
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published:
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9781451415209
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this volume of fresh thinking about life in a Christian community, 21 theologians attest to Christ-centered communities and offer new views of church as an essential healer.
Author: Norma Cook Everist
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780800634780
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this volume of fresh thinking about life in the Christian community, 21 theologians attest to a Christ-centered community and offer new views of church as an essential healer.
Author: Gregg Okesson
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 2020-04-21
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 1493422383
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow can Christians witness to the complexity of our world? Gregg Okesson shows that local congregations are the primary means of public witness in and for the world. As Christians move back and forth between their churches and their neighborhoods, workplaces, and other public spaces, they weave a thick gospel witness. This introduction to public missiology explains how local congregations can thicken their witness in the public realms where they live, work, and play. Real-life examples from around the world help readers envision approaches to public witness and social change.
Author: Collin Hansen
Publisher: Crossway
Published: 2021-07-28
Total Pages: 149
ISBN-13: 1433579596
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A Christian without a church is a Christian in trouble." Since a global pandemic abruptly closed places of worship, many Christians have skipped church life, even neglecting virtual services. But this was a trend even before COVID-19. Polarizing issues, including political and racial strife, convinced some people to pull away from the church and one another. Now it's time to recommit to gathering as brothers and sisters in Christ. In Rediscover Church, Collin Hansen and Jonathan Leeman discuss why church is essential for believers and God's mission. Through biblical references and personal stories, they show readers God's true intention for corporate gathering: to spiritually strengthen members as individuals and the body of Christ. In an age of church-shopping and livestreamed services, rediscover why the future of the church relies on believers gathering regularly as the family of God. Published in partnership with the Gospel Coalition and 9Marks.
Author: Thom S. Rainer
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Published: 2010-10-01
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 080544937X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy do so many young adults (18 to 22) leave the church, and what will it take to bring them back? This important question is examined and duly answered in Essential Church?, a follow-up to Thom S. Rainer’s best-selling Simple Church cowritten this time with his son, research expert Sam Rainer. The book is based on a study of one-thousand so-called "church dropouts" who were interviewed about why they left. Their answers are quite surprising, having less to do with "losing their religion" and more about the desire for a community that isn’t made stale by simply maintaining the status quo. In turn, the Rainers offer churches four concrete solutions toward making their worship community an essential part these young people’s lives again: Simplify - develop a clear structure and process for making disciples. Deepen - provide strong biblical teaching and preaching. Expect - let members know the need for commitment to the congregation. Multiply - emphasize evangelism, outward focus, and starting new churches.
Author: Norma Cook Everist
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Published: 2004-11-01
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 1426788126
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYou love your work. You love the people--most of the time. They respect you, most of the time. You work together with colleagues, staff, and laity, with energy and enthusiasm, most of the time. But then something goes wrong: a word spoken in anger, a misunderstanding, and things turn sour. What do you do? How do you deal with conflict, whether it be long or short-term, low or high intensity? Conflict is a part of the human predicament, yet it need not define or control your ministry. This book is designed to help the reader ask certain key questions about the nature and scope of the conflict they are experiencing and, based on the answers to those questions, move beyond conflict. The author lays out the variety of responses to conflict, running the gamut from avoidance to accommodation to compromise to collaboration. Written with the real needs of congregations in mind, this book will serve as a reliable guide to all who wish to move through conflict into a more effective and authentic fulfillment of their calling.
Author: Robin Greenwood
Publisher: SPCK
Published: 2013-08-01
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 0281069360
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeing Church offers ideas and strategies, based on real experience and detailed reflection, on processes that offer support and challenge to church leaders and especially clergy, whether parish clergy, or diocesan advisers, or bishops.
Author: Mary R. Sawyer
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2003-07-24
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781563383663
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the state of the American Christian community from a cross-cultural perspective.
Author: Charles H. Cosgrove
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 0687081521
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf church is like a family, it fights like one too! As in any family, conflict in the church family is natural and inevitable. But the way the church family handles its fights can make or break ministry. By using stories and examples of real problems at actual churches, Cosgrove and Hatfield have applied family-systems theory to help us identify the hidden structural boundaries in any group relationship. They show how the dynamics and 'family rules' operating in the informal family-like church system powerfully influence how church members relate to each other.
