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95 Questions To Shape The Future Of Your Church
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Book Synopsis 95 Questions to Shape the Future of Your Church by : Thomas G. Bandy
Download or read book 95 Questions to Shape the Future of Your Church written by Thomas G. Bandy and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 95 Questions to Shape the Future of Your Church is a comprehensive commentary on systemic change for the church. It combines the spirit of Luther’s 95 Theses with depth of insight akin to Luther’s reformation catechism. This book will be essential for every congregational, denominational, and seminary bookshelf. Church leaders and members all yearn for a new Reformation that will realign Christian congregations with God’s mission. This book frames the right questions, and focuses the right answers. It helps church leaders do the hard work of assessment and planning. The next Reformation will be an extraordinarily practical endeavor. Leaders need to apply the tactics that will leverage the greatest change, and guide the church deeper into the mystery of Christ and further in companionship with Christ. We want to be faithful. Now we know how to be faithful.
Book Synopsis Applied Christian Ethics by : Matthew Lon Weaver
Download or read book Applied Christian Ethics written by Matthew Lon Weaver and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applied Christian Ethics addresses selected themes in Christian social ethics. Part one shows the roots of contributors in the realist school; part two focuses on different levels of the significance of economics for social justice; and part three deals with both existential experience and government policy in war and peace issues.
Book Synopsis Dead Church Walking by : Jimmy Dorrell
Download or read book Dead Church Walking written by Jimmy Dorrell and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2012-01-04 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most everyone recognizes that the traditional Western way of doing church is in deep trouble and has been struggling for years to survive. While the successful rise of some new, non-traditional churches often take the sting out of the demise of the average church, the truth is that God still can renew congregations that have a rich history but are struggling to adjust in today's postmodern culture. In his new book, Dead Church Walking, author Jimmy Dorrell offers both Biblical and social principles with clear suggestions for congregations willing to significantly change to become a body of believers that proclaims God's kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. While there are no easy fixes, this book addresses underlying symptoms of broken models that often perpetuate terminal illness stopping the church from doing God's work on earth. Dorrell says our churches don't need new missions statements or re-structuring but a fresh wind of God's spirit. We don't need charismatic leaders but compassionate, Christ centered leaders. He shows us how to embrace change, overcome the obstacles to change, and focus on kingdom growth instead of church growth. This book is hopeful and encouraging, bringing fresh ideas to ignite the fire of churches and put them on the road to recovery.
Book Synopsis Mission Shaped Questions by : Steven J. L. Croft
Download or read book Mission Shaped Questions written by Steven J. L. Croft and published by Church House Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2004 Mission-shaped Church presented a challenge to church leaders. Now Mission-Shaped Questions addresses the big theological and practical issues that have arisen.Drawn from a range of Anglican and Methodist backgrounds, the highly-respected contributors take an incisive look at church and its future. They tackles questions such as:What exactly is church? Can we develop churches that can transform culture? Can we be mission-shaped and kingdom-focused too?These contributions are an essential read for anyone committed to the future of church and mission.
Book Synopsis The Present Future by : Reggie McNeal
Download or read book The Present Future written by Reggie McNeal and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-03-23 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 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.
Book Synopsis There's Hope for Your Church by : Gary L. McIntosh
Download or read book There's Hope for Your Church written by Gary L. McIntosh and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A startling 85% of churches in the US are plateaued or declining, a trend that has been building for the past fifty years. In the face of shrinking attendance and lagging spiritual growth, pastors and church leaders are understandably discouraged and demoralized. But the first step to turning things around is hope. Church health expert Gary McIntosh offers this hope by showing church leaders the first things they need to do to make a new start for their church. God can and does restore churches to new life, even as he restores individuals. The street-smart ideas and step-by-step instructions found in this book are ones that pastors and church leaders can put to use immediately in their churches to bring about solid growth and renewed hope for the future.
Book Synopsis Mission-shaped Church by : Graham Cray
Download or read book Mission-shaped Church written by Graham Cray and published by Church House Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Society in Britain has changed dramatically in the last 30 years, especially in terms of our understanding of community and how we relate to one another. One of the responses of the Church has been to plant new churches and create 'fresh expressions' of church; churches that relate to our changing context. With a new foreward by the Rt Revd Graham Cray, this detailed, practical and well-researched report: gives an overview of recent developments in church planting;describes varied and exciting 'fresh expressions' of church; offers practical help and advice; looks candidly at where lessons can be learned; proposes a framework and methodology for good, effective church planting; includes recommendations to make possible the visions of a vibrant future Church.Each chapter has a set of questions and challenges to help local parish churches engage with the issues.
Download or read book Church 3.0 written by Neil Cole and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-01-25 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expert practitioner answers to questions about the burgeoning organic church movement Neil Cole's best-selling book Organic Church described the fastest growing segment of contemporary Christianity-the so-called organic church. Now in this next-step book, he answers questions about how to deal with theological and organizational issues that come up. He talks about issues such has what to do with finances, children, heresy, leader training, and rituals and ordinances. Without the top-down structure of a denomination, even people who are proponents of this small, house-church model worry that they are not doing it right. Offers an important resource for anyone involved with or thinking of starting an organic or house church Addresses practical issues of theology, rituals, doctrinal heresy, how to handle children, finances, and other important questions Written by an acknowledged expert who is now and has been for over twenty years an organic church planter and practitioner A new Leadership Network title and follow-up to Organic Church Church 3.0 offers solid information about organic churches based on Cole's extensive experience in starting, nurturing, and mentoring in the organic church movement.
Download or read book The Present Future written by McNeal and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2003-10-03 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 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. Also available: The Present Future DVD Collection (978-0-7879-8673-5), Reggie McNeal's DVD presentation of the ideas and insights featured in his best-selling book.
Book Synopsis Rebooting.Church by : Walter Franklin Davis
Download or read book Rebooting.Church written by Walter Franklin Davis and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-07-10 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WELCOME TO THE FUTURE OF CHURCH! In the past, "Church" was Analog, Physical & Local. In the future, "Church" will be Digital, Virtual & Global! To Survive, Grow & Thrive in the 21st-Century, Your Church must "Reboot" to become a "Digital-Church.Your church is now serving in the new Christian Epoch of "Digital-Church," and Rebooting.Church is the Ultimate Guide to its Digital-Transformation! Written for Church-Leaders (Clergy, Staff, & Laity), as well as for all concerned Christians, Rebooting.Church explains in layman's terms how your church can transform itself by embracing change and technology to become more relevant to more people, and especially to Millennial and Post-Millennial generations. In it, you will find out why it is critical to your church's survival to change quickly if it is to successfully serve a new Digital-World filled with Un-Churched and Under-Churched Seekers, regardless of where they may live and when they may need it most.Rebooting.Church includes the following chapters:1. Welcome to a new Christian Epoch: Digital-Church2. 21st-Century Challenges & Opportunities3. Transformation - a Core Christian Competency4. The Magic of Digital-Transformation5. Digital-Transformation Technologies6. Digital Outreach & Engagement7. Seven Steps to Building a Digital-Church8. Summary, Takeaways & Action PlanThe book covers three primary goals for Church-Leaders: RE-THINK > RE-IMAGINE > RE-BOOT:1.RE-THINK: The first goal is to sound the alarm and provide a wake-up call for all churches and their leaders of the critical need to rethink their current perspectives concerning the new realities of the 21st-century, and for the need to create a "Technology Roadmap-to-Relevance" to help them better align with the high-velocity changes occurring in Technology and Culture that threaten to make church irrelevant at best, or ignored at worst.2.RE-IMAGINE: Its second goal is to reimagine the future of the church through bold, open-minded discussion about the importance of aggressively adopting both existing and future technologies with which churches might become more productive, efficient, and effective in meeting the needs of its members, and the larger world of the un-churched and under-churched "Seekers" beyond its walls.3.RE-BOOT: Its third purpose is to inform, inspire, and motivate church leaders to reboot their church by transforming their church through "Digital-Transformation" to better serve a 21st-century Digital-World. A reboot also means challenging the status-quo and any rigid thinking or blind adherence to tradition for tradition's sake that may be holding their church back from reaching more Seekers, and then to take immediate action to enact the Cultural and Technological changes necessary to more successfully fulfill the charter given to it by Christ as embodied in Matthew 28: 19-20 - also known as "The Great Commission".Church-Leaders, as well as rank-and-file church-members, should be thinking about the future of their church and strategically re-imagining its roles, activities, and how it relates to the new Digital-World it serves. This is the only way your church, and the "Christian Church" writ-large, will have the opportunity to remain relevant to that Digital-World. Why "relevant?" Because - "What is not relevant is not important, and what is not important, is ignored."Relevancy is important if churches are to reverse the declines in church participation and memberships that Gallup reports have fallen by 20% in just the past two decades. It's especially important if churches are to reach and attract post-Millennial "Digital-Natives" who have never known a non-digital world. Isn't it time for your church to "Reboot?"
Book Synopsis Common Worship: Times and Seasons President's Edition by : Common Worship
Download or read book Common Worship: Times and Seasons President's Edition written by Common Worship and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised, expanded edition of the Common Worship President’s Edition contains everything to celebrate Holy Communion Order One throughout the church year. It combines relevant material from the original President’s Edition with Eucharistic material from Times and Seasons, Festivals and Pastoral Services, and the Additional Collects.
Book Synopsis The Post-Quarantine Church by : Thom S. Rainer
Download or read book The Post-Quarantine Church written by Thom S. Rainer and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trustworthy and respected guide for pastors and church leadership in the post-quarantine world, providing hope and vision for the future of your congregation. From thousands of surveys of church leaders and in-person consultations, Thom Rainer and his Church Answers team have gathered the essential wisdom you will need to face the challenges and opportunities that the quarantine crisis creates for the local church, including: New and better ways to lead the gathered church A wide-open door for growing the digital church A moment to rethink the facilities New strategies for church growth . . . and much more! This book is, in effect, your personal church consultant, helping you plan and prepare for the future. In the midst of heartbreak, tragedy, and struggle due to Covid-19, here’s hope, wisdom, encouragement and vision. This book is valuable for those looking for local church and pastor resources to enhance church leadership, grow your church, and serve digital and online church communities in the post-quarantine world. As a former pastor and founder of Church Answers, Thom S. Rainer is intimately familiar with the ever-present demands that pastors face. He has spent a lifetime committed to the growth and health of the local church.
Download or read book Simple Church written by Thom S. Rainer and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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Book Synopsis Publishers' Trade List Annual, 1980 by : Bobbs-Merrill Educational Co
Download or read book Publishers' Trade List Annual, 1980 written by Bobbs-Merrill Educational Co and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Medical Century by : Charles Edmund Fisher
Download or read book Medical Century written by Charles Edmund Fisher and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis To Change the Church by : Ross Douthat
Download or read book To Change the Church written by Ross Douthat and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times columnist and one of America’s leading conservative thinkers considers Pope Francis’s efforts to change the church he governs in a book that is “must reading for every Christian who cares about the fate of the West and the future of global Christianity” (Rod Dreher, author of The Benedict Option). Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in 1936, today Pope Francis is the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Francis’s stewardship of the Church, while perceived as a revelation by many, has provoked division throughout the world. “If a conclave were to be held today,” one Roman source told The New Yorker, “Francis would be lucky to get ten votes.” In his “concise, rhetorically agile…adroit, perceptive, gripping account (The New York Times Book Review), Ross Douthat explains why the particular debate Francis has opened—over communion for the divorced and the remarried—is so dangerous: How it cuts to the heart of the larger argument over how Christianity should respond to the sexual revolution and modernity itself, how it promises or threatens to separate the church from its own deep past, and how it divides Catholicism along geographical and cultural lines. Douthat argues that the Francis era is a crucial experiment for all of Western civilization, which is facing resurgent external enemies (from ISIS to Putin) even as it struggles with its own internal divisions, its decadence, and self-doubt. Whether Francis or his critics are right won’t just determine whether he ends up as a hero or a tragic figure for Catholics. It will determine whether he’s a hero, or a gambler who’s betraying both his church and his civilization into the hands of its enemies. “A balanced look at the struggle for the future of Catholicism…To Change the Church is a fascinating look at the church under Pope Francis” (Kirkus Reviews). Engaging and provocative, this is “a pot-boiler of a history that examines a growing ecclesial crisis” (Washington Independent Review of Books).
