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Author : Douglas C. Vest
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 1604772395
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Churchianity Lite written by Douglas C. Vest and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Glen Berteau
Publisher : Charisma Media
ISBN 13 : 1621362272
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (213 download)
Download or read book Christianity Lite written by Glen Berteau and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesus didn’t come to make our normal, selfish, sinful lives a little better. He came to radically transform life as we know it. This narrow way—the way of grace-inspired obedience—is the only way to find the real Jesus, real meaning, real hope, and a life where we’ll really live!
Author : Michael Spencer
Publisher : WaterBrook
ISBN 13 : 0307459187
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Mere Churchianity written by Michael Spencer and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you left the church in search of Jesus? Studies show that one in four young adults claim no formal religious affiliation, and church leaders have long known that this generation is largely missing on Sunday morning. Hundreds of thousands of “church leavers” have had a mentor and pastor, however, in Michael Spencer, known to blog readers as the Internet Monk. Spencer guided a vast online congregation in its search for a more honest and more immediate practice of Christian faith. Spencer discovered the truth that church officials often miss, which is that many who leave the church do so in an attempt to find Jesus. For years on his blog Spencer showed de-churched readers how to practice their faith without the distractions of religious institutions. Sadly, he died in 2010. But now that his last message is available in Mere Churchianity, you can benefit from the biblical wisdom and compassionate teaching that always have been hallmarks of his ministry. With Mere Churchianity, Spencer’s writing will continue to point the disenchanted and dispossessed to a Jesus-shaped spirituality. And along the way, his teachings show how you can find others who will go with you on the journey.
Author : Dick Staub
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470344032
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (73 download)
Download or read book The Culturally Savvy Christian written by Dick Staub and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-09-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Culturally Savvy Christian—his incisive critique of contemporary culture and religion—Dick Staub concludes that though it is influential, American popular culture is generally superficial (diversionary, mindless, and celebrity-driven) spiritually delusional (moralistic, therapeutic, and deistic) and soulless (sustained not by art, craft, and ideas, but by the mad pursuit of profit—propped up by marketing and technology). Similarly American Christianity has devolved into its own mindless, diversionary, and celebrity-driven superficiality. Because humans are created in God's image with spiritual, intellectual, creative, moral, and relational capacities, we long for more, yet the true seeker faces the lose-lose alternatives of a soul-numbing culture and a vacuous Christianity-lite. The renaissance we need in both faith and culture will originate in a deep spiritual renewal that restores God's image in us and creates a new breed of culturally savvy, thoughtful creatives who rekindle the spiritual, intellectual, and creative legacy of Christians as enrichers of culture.
Author : Mark D. Baker
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 1514000954
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Centered-Set Church written by Mark D. Baker and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there an alternative to the church's impulse to either obsess over boundaries or erase them completely? Building on the work of Paul Hiebert, Mark D. Baker provides a unique manual for understanding and applying the vision of a "centered" church, charting a new path for congregations and leaders to grow in authentic freedom and dynamic movement toward the true center: Jesus himself.
Author : Rev. Dr. Wendi Sargeant
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498204317
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)
Download or read book Christian Education and the Emerging Church written by Rev. Dr. Wendi Sargeant and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All signs point to Christian education having lost its theological location and prominence in the life of the Western Protestant church. The Emerging Church movement, as an intentionally postmodern approach to ministry in the contemporary context, may, however, offer insights to reinterpret Christian education. This significant movement in today's church gives Christian education a new interpretive framework that is theologically located at an intersection of doxology and doctrine. In her examination of postmodern faith formation, Wendi Sargeant explores the importance of the Christian worshipping community as the most appropriate setting for Christian education. Practitioners and students will benefit from the ready-to-use teaching and learning matrix, and all those with interest in the formation of faith in themselves and others will draw much from the way Sargeant situates worship as the basis for enhancing Christian formation and ethos.
Author : Andrew Fellows
Publisher : Inter-Varsity Press
ISBN 13 : 1789743443
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (897 download)
Download or read book Smuggling Jesus Back into the Church written by Andrew Fellows and published by Inter-Varsity Press. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What’s gone wrong with the church? If you’ve been feeling that something vital has gone missing from our spiritual lives, you’re not alone. But from scandals involving celebrity preachers, to busy programmes that have little sense of God and struggling to find time to pray, what is it that lies behind the church is crisis? Is it possible that we’ve forgotten to put Jesus at the centre of everything? And if so, what can do we about it? In Smuggling Jesus Back into Church Andrew Fellows shows us with a sharp eye how secularism has reshaped church culture, changing the way many Christians and churches live and worship without being noticed. Both provocative and practical, he challenges us to live with radical Christ-like distinctiveness - distinctiveness that requires both reformation by the church and revival by the Holy Spirit. Timely and prophetic, Smuggling Jesus Back into Church is essential reading for anyone concerned about the effects of secularism on Christianity and modern church culture, or for anyone who struggles with Church and wants to understand why. Filled with passion and vision, it will point you back towards Jesus and revitalise your understanding of what Christian discipleship should be. It’s time to remember what lies at the heart of our faith. It’s time to smuggle Jesus back into church and back into the centre of our lives.
Author : William T. McConnell
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1490837264
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Developing a Significant Church written by William T. McConnell and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014-07-21 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fifty years, a parade of writers has labored to show declining churches the route to new growth. Bill McConnell, from extensive experience and wise reflection, has written one of the most interesting and useful books of the type. As this book is read by church leadership teams (not by the pastor alone), it will catalyze the turnaround of several thousand local churches, at least. Dr. George G. Hunter III, Distinguished Professor of Evangelization, Asbury Theological Seminary Bill McConnell is a delightful writer, and this book is as easy to read as it is substantive in its content. It is intelligent, intuitive, and informed. There is no substitute for wisdom born of experience and perseverance, and that wisdom is found here. Full of practical insights and suggestions, this book also provides a window into Bills personal journey as a successful leader of congregational transformation. Dr. Dick Hamm, author, coach-consultant, partner of The Columbia Partnership, and past president and general minister of The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Although not textbooks, I wish Bill McConnells books could be required reading for all mainline denominational churches. As a successful pastor and an advisor to many churches, McConnell writes from a wealth of experience that is immensely practical and applicable. All church leaders and pastors who wish to move their churches forward toward a healthy and exciting future should get this book. Margo Woodworth, Retired Executive Director of Net Results, Inc. Dr. Bill McConnell is a native of Louisville, Kentucky, has served in the church for over forty years, and is a church transformation consultant and Christian leadership coach. He speaks in many venues around the nation on the subject of church transformation. He is a graduate of Eastern Kentucky University, Asbury Theological Seminary, and Kingsway Theological Seminary.
Author : Daniel L. Akin
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 080542590X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Perspectives on Church Government written by Daniel L. Akin and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2004 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The models of church government discussed are the Plural Elder-led Congregational model, the Single Elder-led Congregational model, the Democratic Congregational model, the Episcopal model, and the Presbyterian model.
Author : Glenn T. Stanton
Publisher : Worthy Books
ISBN 13 : 1546015167
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Myth of the Dying Church written by Glenn T. Stanton and published by Worthy Books. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: False news is not limited to politics. There is a pervasive myth circulating that says the church is dying. GLENN STANTON rebuts that fake news and paints a truly positive picture of America's churches. Much has been made of the so-called "nones" - those who claim no spiritual affiliation. Media has spun the nones into a chicken-little the sky is falling narrative. The nones are an infamously difficult subsection to understand and there is a lot of false information on them. Glenn Stanton believes the nones story has become overblown and has become "a thing" due to curiosity and repetition of their supposed irreligiosity. THE MYTH OF THE DYING CHURCH digs deeply into the research concerning spirituality in America and reveals the hope and truth about the vitality and future of the church.
Author : Steve McVey
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0736940340
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (369 download)
Download or read book 52 Lies Heard in Church Every Sunday written by Steve McVey and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Could many churchgoing Christians be getting a diluted Christianity—one that diminishes the loving, giving, personal God who provides the believer everything in life? Author Steve McVey passionately but unwittingly taught from the pulpit the very lies he now exposes. Forthrightly but humbly, he shows how pastors and churches can end up distorting scriptural truths because of their preconceptions. Opening up the Scriptures freshly, Steve examines typical problems such as Leaving out half of the truth: “Becoming a Christian means having your sins forgiven.” (We also are made alive!) Using “shorthand” that promotes an unbiblical view: “Our sins are under the blood of Jesus.” (Far better, they’ve been taken away!) Confusing our role with God’s: “Salvation is giving your life to Christ.” (More important, He gives His life to us!) Readers will see that God’s undiluted truth is always best...and brings a fulfilling, close relationship with Him.
Author : Mike Erre
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0736924965
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (369 download)
Download or read book Death by Church written by Mike Erre and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining how materialism and consumerism have made their way into the church, a teaching pastor and author of Jesus of Suburbia reveals how Christians can more effectively demonstrate Christ's presence and how the church can cooperate with Jesus in the world in which they live. Original.
Author : Michael Harvey MBA
Publisher : Monarch Books
ISBN 13 : 0857216333
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)
Download or read book Creating a Culture of Invitation in Your Church written by Michael Harvey MBA and published by Monarch Books. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We like to think our church welcomes visitors. But how welcoming can we be, if we are not inviting? We are welcoming as long as people get themselves across the church threshold, but we fail to take our welcome outside. During the years Michael has been developing Back to Church Sunday, he has conducted an extensive study on the seemingly simple subject of 'invitation'. Over 650 times in 12 countries he has asked: 'Why don't we invite our friends to take a closer look at Christ?' The many answers form the impetus for this book. After considering why it seems so hard to invite friends to church, Michael looks at our concerns over acceptance and rejection, and suggests ideas gleaned from years of trying to establish a culture of invitation. 'When I have specifically encouraged Christians to issue an invitation, some people say yes and some no. God sent his son to invite us all into a relationship, and so to be like God is to be a person who invites!'
Author : Dr David Goodhew
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472414004
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (724 download)
Download or read book Towards a Theology of Church Growth written by Dr David Goodhew and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-05-28 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concern about church growth and decline is widespread and contentious, yet theological reflection on church growth is scarce. Leading international scholars, including Alister McGrath, Benedicta Ward and C. Kavin Rowe, provide rich resources from scripture, doctrine and tradition, to underpin action to promote church growth and to stimulate further theological reflection on the subject.
Author : Kent R. Hunter
Publisher : FaithWords
ISBN 13 : 1478989319
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (789 download)
Download or read book Who Broke My Church? written by Kent R. Hunter and published by FaithWords. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something in the Church is broken. For Christianity to move beyond business as usual, Christians must learn it's not about what you do, but who you are and who you will become. Based on a survey of 75,000 people in churches from 65 denominations and 5,000 one-on-one interviews, author and founder of Church Doctor Ministries Kent Hunter gives practical direction for Christians to experience the impact every church could make on society. Utilizing seven key strategies for helping churches be more effective, you will finish Who Broke My Church? and feel refreshed, energized, and ready to be the change.
Author : Juan M. Floyd-Thomas
Publisher : Abingdon Press
ISBN 13 : 1426786824
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Liberating Black Church History written by Juan M. Floyd-Thomas and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No serious scholar in biblical studies today can introduce students to his or her field without taking into account the contributions of African American scholarship. The long traditions of biblical interpretation in the Black Church, and the innovative research and writing performed by African American scholars in recent years are now essential components of a critical study of the Bible. Up to now, knowing how best to introduce the fruits of African American biblical scholarship to students has been difficult. Good resources exist, yet too often they are not written with the needs of introductory students in mind. This book meets that need by providing an overview of the most important developments in African American approaches to biblical scholarship. It offers insight into the particular ways that African American scholarship has shaped the world of biblical study.
Author : Steve Urick
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 9781477286340
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (863 download)
Download or read book Christian Discipleship and the Local Church written by Steve Urick and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-11-09 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a person becomes a Christian the ongoing work of discipleship continues. The intake of sound Bible doctrine into the soul is vital in order to grow spiritually strong and mature. This is where the crucial role of the local church comes in. Every believer needs to be taught by qualified leaders (evangelists, pastor-teachers, etc.) and be ministered to by various other gifted members of the body of Christ. Christian Discipleship and the Local Church gives basic knowledge to find a good church, discover one's spiritual gift/s, and advance in the Christian life. It also equips Christians with concise and easy to read material to use when doing the life-changing work of discipling others. It can even be used for church-planting or strengthening existing churches.
