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Download or read book A Vision for Church Growth in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). written by and published by . This book was released on 2000* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mancini
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 : 9780470580394
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Church Unique written by Mancini and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2008-03-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by church consultant Will Mancinin expert on a new kind of visioning process to help churches develop a stunningly unique model of ministry that leads to redemptive movement. He guides churches away from an internal focus to emphasize participation in their community and surrounding culture. In this important book, Mancini offers an approach for rethinking what it means to lead with clarity as a visionary. Mancini explains that each church has a culture that reflects its particular values, thoughts, attitudes, and actions and shows how church leaders can unlock their church's individual DNA and unleash their congregation's one-of-a-kind potential.
Author : Krin Van Tatenhove
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 1611649161
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Neighborhood Church written by Krin Van Tatenhove and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we embody the values of love, grace, and justice? As faith communities, how can our collective embodiment of these values shine even brighter? The answers to these questions must always unfold right here, right now, exactly where God has planted us. Neighborhood Churchacts as a resource to inspire churches to become a vibrant and engaging community partner with the families and neighborhoods living around them. The need for transformation is acute. Congregational decline continues across all mainline denominations. The abandonment of the church by the millennial generation is ubiquitous; no denomination is escaping it. This is, in part, a consequence of disconnection from our communities. Van Tatenhove and Mueller believe that, parish by parish, we can reverse this trend. They dare to have an audacious hope for local congregations not only as signs of Gods kingdom but as life-giving institutions that anchor their neighborhoods. Drawing on their combined sixty years of parish experience, wisdom from Asset-Based Community Development, and compelling case stories, Van Tatenhove and Mueller do more than just call us to incarnational ministry. They give practical, essential tools that lead to communal conversion, develop the DNA of listening, spur fruitful partnerships, promote integrated space, and sustain long-term visions. They believe these tools will spark true revival and unleash the power of incarnational ministry.
Author : Brad Long
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310322960
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Growing the Church in the Power of the Holy Spirit written by Brad Long and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is something crucial missing from your congregation's programs? Beneath the surface of churches' programs and activities lies the fundamental question of how leaders and churches can be enabled to discern and obediently cooperate with the guidance of the Holy Spirit. This biblically grounded book asserts that many leaders overlook the necessary precondition of cooperating with the empowering will of the Holy Spirit before putting their plans into action. Growing the Church in the Power of the Holy Spirit is a highly practical guide for nurturing relations between believers and the Holy Spirit, a process facilitated by seven dynamics: Love that draws us into engagement Faith and obedience Receiving divine guidance Exercising spiritual discernment Welcoming the gifts and manifestations of the Holy Spirit Intercessory prayer that shapes the future Seeing and responding to kairos moments Advanced by the church leadership and brought into being by the Holy Spirit, these factors help congregations preach and teach, worship, heal, govern, make disciples of converts, and evangelize.
Author : G. Jeffrey MacDonald
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 1611649935
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Part-Time is Plenty written by G. Jeffrey MacDonald and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Churches experiencing numerical and financial decline may dread the day when they can no longer afford a full-time pastor. Freeing up funds that would go to a full-time salary sure would help the budgetmaybe even enough to turn things aroundbut is it even possible to run effective ministries with just a half- or quarter-time professional? Journalist and part-time pastor Jeffrey MacDonald says yeschurches can grow more vibrant than ever, tapping into latent energy and undiscovered gifts, revitalizing worship, and engaging in more effective ministry with the community.Readers get a much-needed playbook forhelping congregations to thrive with a part-time ministry model. They learn to see the model in a new light: to stop viewing part-time as a problem to be eradicated and to instead embrace it as a divine gift that facilitates a higher level of lay engagement, responsibility, playfulness, and creativity.
Author : R. Drew Smith
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 1611648459
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Urban Ministry Reconsidered written by R. Drew Smith and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian ministries often struggle to account for urbanization's growing force, complexities, and reachâ€"and to formulate theologically and sociologically appropriate responses. Urban Ministry Reconsidered features a collection of original essays by leading scholars and practitioners that explores current issues and challenges in urban communities. Together these articles consider how cultural and structural frameworks have led to new conceptualizations and configurations of urban ministry. In addition, they examine the degree to which the social, spiritual, and organizational priorities of urban ministries have been reconceived in response to these shifts.
Author : Tom Bennardo
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 031010100X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Honest Guide to Church Planting written by Tom Bennardo and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Church planting has become a cottage industry. National conferences, hip planting organizations, and all-in-one resource kits celebrate the thrill of pioneering a church and inspire visions of glorious victories. Yet few who respond to the call are warned what they'll actually encounter: the relentless opposition they'll endure; the eventual scattering of their entire core group; the failure of their tried-and-true, field-tested system. Here's the dirty little secret of church planting: the roadside is strewn with casualties. Many have closed their churches. Some left ministry permanently. Others abandoned the faith altogether. Church planting is at once the greatest and most grueling ministry work on earth. This book is for those toiling in the trenches, those about to bail out, and those considering jumping in. It's for the church planters laboring and struggling, seeing little movement, and wondering what they're doing wrong or why God is failing them. It's also for mother churches, planting organizations, and denominations, as a challenge to rethink and re-calibrate the way they approach and measure planting endeavors. The Honest Guide to Church Planting is a fresh and candid conversation about the challenges and joys of planting new churches. Tom Bennardo speaks the truth so that those involved in church planting can embrace a more accurate and realistic picture of what planting a church is really like; one that not only enables them to survive, but to thrive in this wondrous work.
Author : Frank Joseph Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780967699103
Total Pages : 607 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (991 download)
Download or read book The History of the Presbyterian Church in America written by Frank Joseph Smith and published by . This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Nixon
Publisher : The Pilgrim Press
ISBN 13 : 0829819428
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (298 download)
Download or read book We Refused to Lead a Dying Church! written by Paul Nixon and published by The Pilgrim Press. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Nixon does it again with this groundbreaking follow-up to his bestseller "I Refuse to Lead a Dying Church!" "We Refused to Lead a Dying Church!" shares the miracles of God’s transformative power in dying churches that decided to choose life with real examples of ordinary pastors and lay leaders who inspired church growth. Nixon shares the stories of fifteen churches from the United Church of Christ, United Methodist Church, and Presbyterian Church (USA) that decided giving up, dying, was not an option.
Author : Roger J. Gench
Publisher : Presbyterian Publishing Corp
ISBN 13 : 0664239684
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (642 download)
Download or read book Theology from the Trenches written by Roger J. Gench and published by Presbyterian Publishing Corp. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If God's way in the world can be described as cruciform and covenantal, so can the ministry to which we are summoned in urban settings. For urban churches are called to covenant with God and others at the intersection of the places where God is bringing life out to the death-tending ways of our urban realities." --from the introduction
Author : Samuel Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book An Essay on the Warrant, Nature, and Duties of the Office of the Ruling Elder, in the Presbyterian Church written by Samuel Miller and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cynthia M. Campbell
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664501242
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Renewing the Vision written by Cynthia M. Campbell and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The five themes around which Campbell organizes these essays and sermons--written by 20 Presbyterian Church (USA) scholars, pastors and church leaders--is organized Christology and preaching, the church and evangelism, missions and service, the authority and interpretation of Scripture, and ecumenism and the Reformed tradition.
Author : Louis B. Weeks
Publisher : Geneva Press
ISBN 13 : 1611641705
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)
Download or read book A Sustainable Presbyterian Future written by Louis B. Weeks and published by Geneva Press. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Louis Weeks examines the present state of the denomination and how congregations can grow in faith through the current time of transition in the church. He considers markers of Presbyterian identity, new ways of connecting and faith development, and defining qualities of the church. Recognizing that many congregations are changing in different ways, Weeks includes case studies of congregations and interviews with leaders of local congregations and denominational leaders to explore aspects of Presbyterian faith and life that are viable and necessary for the future.
Author : Milton J. Coalter
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664252434
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (524 download)
Download or read book The Pluralistic Vision written by Milton J. Coalter and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays in this valuable book examine the results of research on theological education in the twentieth century, spiritual formation among seminarians, and the changing nature of Presbyterian-related colleges. Several essays review Christian education among Presbyterians, focusing on the forming of curricula and publications from denominational presses. Through its examination of American Presbyterianism, the Presbyterian Presence series illuminates patterns of change in mainstream Protestantism and American religious and cultural life in the twentieth century.
Author : Charles Augustus Briggs
Publisher : New York, C. Scribner
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Presbyterianism written by Charles Augustus Briggs and published by New York, C. Scribner. This book was released on 1885 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph D. Small
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 1611640628
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Proclaiming the Great Ends of the Church written by Joseph D. Small and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2010-04-19 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prominent Presbyterian pastors and leaders address each of the Great Ends of the Church in sermons that both challenge and uplift readers. For decades the Great Ends of the Church, a historic listing of ways Presbyterians have understood the role of the church, has helped to establish church directions in mission and ministry. The Great Ends of the Church are (1) the proclamation of the gospel for the salvation of humankind; (2) the shelter, nurture, and spiritual fellowship of the children of God; (3) the maintenance of divine worship; (4) the preservation of the truth; (5) the promotion of social righteousness; and (6) the exhibition of the Kingdom of Heaven to the world. These sermons focus the church's understandings of its purpose and inspire us to dedicate ourselves to the church's work in the world. This is a book that every Presbyterian should know and is ideal for study by church groups and sessions.
Author : Milton J. Coalter
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664254117
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (541 download)
Download or read book Study Guide for the Re-Forming Tradition written by Milton J. Coalter and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical resource will assist individuals and adult groups in church school classes, sessions, and retreats by clarifying some of the major themes of each chapter inThe Re-forming Tradition: Presbyterians and Mainstream Protestantism. Study helps for the other volumes of The Presbyterian Presence: The Twentieth-Century Experience series are also included. The writers offer excellent suggestions to spur discussion and list additional resources for further study. Through its examination of American Presbyterianism, thePresbyterian Presenceseries illuminates patterns of change in mainstream Protestantism and American religious and cultural life in the twentieth century.
