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Book Synopsis The Small Town Mega Church by : Gary W. Carter
Download or read book The Small Town Mega Church written by Gary W. Carter and published by Word Alive Press. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All churches hit growth plateaus. The Small Town Mega Church will give you tools and insights to break through these invisible, yet real barriers. It outlines the proven structures and strategies we have applied to build our churches. It also lays out a step by step outline of how to strengthen and release your church through marketplace ministries. If you are a church with vision that exceeds your present capacity, you will be inspired by this systematic approach to greater success. These effective growth strategies work within the limited resources and manpower of a small church. Pastor Gary is a leading voice in church planting and systematic growth. He uses his years of management experience to bring out key success principles. His teachings will help you to: 1.Clarify vision. 2.Identify core values. 3.Build liberating structures. 4.Create effective systems and strategies. 5.Recognize and break growth plateaus. 6.Establish team dynamics to reach your next level. "By applying the teaching of this book, you will break your church out of the cycles of average!"
Book Synopsis Micropolitan Church by : Jerry Harris
Download or read book Micropolitan Church written by Jerry Harris and published by CrossBooks Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does your small-town church have a big-time vision for growth and evangelism? Don't be discouraged by the big bucks, big talent, and big facilities of megachurches in America's cosmopolitan areas. In Micropolitan Church: Doing Mega-ministry in America's Small Towns, author Jerry Harris presents proven strategies for outwardly focused, small-town (populations below fifty thousand) church communities to grow exponentially and make differences in thousands of lives. "I love my work at Leadership Network (www.leadnet.org) because of the opportunities I have to meet 100X leaders like Jerry Harris. Guys like Jerry are always thinking about what's next and putting it into practice right now. Micropolitan Church is all about how his church, The Crossing, has introduced what's next' concepts like multi-site to the small towns of America. Read his book and learn how to think micropolitan and make it work in your community." Greg Ligon Innovator, Pastor, and writer. Greg is the co-author or Multi-site Church Revolution and Multi-site Road Trip "In Micropolitan Church, Jerry Harris will strip away the misconceptions and excuses to true discipleship in our communities. His methods will challenge your view of the church, putting it on the attack outside the conventional walls moving people from converts to disciples. Use his team's ideas to implement change in your church without blowing it up. This message could change the direction of the church in America!"
Book Synopsis Transforming Church in Rural America by : Shannon O'Dell
Download or read book Transforming Church in Rural America written by Shannon O'Dell and published by New Leaf Publishing Group. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No matter what size church you are a part of, this book will challenge your traditional thinking, force you to look beyond the status quo, and enable you to grasp a bigger vision of what God has in store for your ministry and your leadership." -Ed Young, Fellowship Church "Shannon O'Dell's passion for the rural church in America is contagious" -Craig Groeschel, LifeChurch.tv Small church buildings dotting the countryside are home to ministries that often struggle with limited attendance, no money, and little expectation that change can revitalize their future. In Transforming Church in Rural America, Pastor Shannon O'Dell shares a powerful vision of relevance, possibility, and excellence for these small churches, or for any ministry that is stuck in a "rural state of mind." The book reveals: how to generate growth through transformed lives ways to create active evangelism in your community no-cost solutions for staffing challenges, enhancing the worship experience, and inspiring volunteers Focusing on vision, attitude, leadership, and innovation, you can learn the practical strategies and biblical guidance that helped to grow a church of 31 into a multi-campus church of several thousand, with a national and global outreach. Discover effective structure and ways to cast God-given vision so others can follow and make an impact. Experience the blueprint for transforming into effective, dynamic, and thriving churches no matter where the location or how small it may be. MORE INFO
Book Synopsis Pastoring Small Towns by : Ronnie Martin
Download or read book Pastoring Small Towns written by Ronnie Martin and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small town life is quite different from life in a big city. There is not as much traffic. People recognize each other at the grocery store. Local sporting events carry a different cultural weight, and it may not be out of the ordinary to wait behind a tractor or get used to the smell of a nearby factory. These communities are unique, and pastoring here is an extraordinary task. Ronnie Martin and Donnie Griggs are well-aware of this reality. In Pastoring Small Towns, their hope is to equip pastors and ministry leaders to take on the different nuances that come with pastoring smaller communities. They point out the cultural realities of these places and give pastors the tools to effectively engage their people with the Gospel.
Book Synopsis Called to Be Faithful by : Virgil Amundson
Download or read book Called to Be Faithful written by Virgil Amundson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often, we look to a huge mega-church in one of the metropolitan areas to find the "formula" for growth and success. But God is not limited to such places. In fact, there are great treasures to be found in other places-remote, obscure, rural places-where the great God of the universe is just as apt to do "great and mighty things." One of the lies that Satan tells pastors is that they cannot accomplish great things in a small area, but that they must move on to some large metropolitan area to fulfill their ministry. Pastor Virgil Amundson's book, "Called to be Faithful," thoroughly debunks that myth. Shell Lake Full Gospel Church began in 1969 as a Pentecostal congregation of about a dozen people in a town with a population of under 1,000. Today it is touching the world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This small-town church has become a powerful lighthouse to northwest Wisconsin and the world and now supports over 60 missionaries and has given as much as a half a million dollars to missions in one year. "Called to be Faithful" is an absorbing story of the highs and the lows of growing a great church in a small community. Pastor Amundson will be the first to tell you that what has been accomplished is only because of the grace of God, but there are valuable lessons to be learned here about cooperating with God's grace and being flexible enough to flow with what God is doing in the various seasons of life and ministry. Enjoy this collection of a lifetime of memories from a man who has personally experienced the grace of God in the building of a great local church for God.
Book Synopsis Why Is My Church Dying? by : Russell C. Lambert
Download or read book Why Is My Church Dying? written by Russell C. Lambert and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-04-13 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains basic Biblical concepts in evaluating the condition and health of the local congregation. It gives guidance concerning the health and well being of the local church, its members, and pastor. With the number of churches in this country in decline, this book seeks to give them direction through a process of self evaluation.
Book Synopsis Engineering Earth by : Stanley D. Brunn
Download or read book Engineering Earth written by Stanley D. Brunn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-03-19 with total page 2248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to examine the actual impact of physical and social engineering projects in more than fifty countries from a multidisciplinary perspective. The book brings together an international team of nearly two hundred authors from over two dozen different countries and more than a dozen different social, environmental, and engineering sciences. Together they document and illustrate with case studies, maps and photographs the scale and impacts of many megaprojects and the importance of studying these projects in historical, contemporary and postmodern perspectives. This pioneering book will stimulate interest in examining a variety of both social and physical engineering projects at local, regional, and global scales and from disciplinary and trans-disciplinary perspectives.
Book Synopsis Handbook of Megachurches by : Stephen J. Hunt
Download or read book Handbook of Megachurches written by Stephen J. Hunt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The megachurch is an exceptional recent religious trend, certainly within Christian spheres. Spreading from the USA, megachurches now reached reach different global contexts. The edited volume Handbook of Megachurches offers a comprehensive account of the subject from various academic perspectives.
Book Synopsis The Rise of Christianity by : Rodney Stark
Download or read book The Rise of Christianity written by Rodney Stark and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1997-05-09 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This "fresh, blunt, and highly persuasive account of how the West was won—for Jesus" (Newsweek) is now available in paperback. Stark's provocative report challenges conventional wisdom and finds that Christianity's astounding dominance of the Western world arose from its offer of a better, more secure way of life. "Compelling reading" (Library Journal) that is sure to "generate spirited argument" (Publishers Weekly), this account of Christianity's remarkable growth within the Roman Empire is the subject of much fanfare. "Anyone who has puzzled over Christianity's rise to dominance...must read it." says Yale University's Wayne A. Meeks, for The Rise of Christianity makes a compelling case for startling conclusions. Combining his expertise in social science with historical evidence, and his insight into contemporary religion's appeal, Stark finds that early Christianity attracted the privileged rather than the poor, that most early converts were women or marginalized Jews—and ultimately "that Christianity was a success because it proved those who joined it with a more appealing, more assuring, happier, and perhaps longer life" (Andrew M. Greeley, University of Chicago).
Book Synopsis Entering the World of the Small Church by : Anthony G. Pappas
Download or read book Entering the World of the Small Church written by Anthony G. Pappas and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This demonstrates amazingly, with unflinching honesty and a wonderfully redeeming sense of humor, a resource especially helpful in motivating change and growth by mobilizing the natural strengths of small churches. For you who have been looking for a reliable guide to interpret the world of the small church, look no further since this provides all the insights you need. Includes images and models and strategies that reflect the profound uniqueness of the small church. It clearly shows leaders how to lead within the dynamics and culture of the small congregation. This is theologically sound and eminently practical. A must reading for anyone who is or plans to be a leader in a small church. Excellent for small roup study.
Book Synopsis Small Church Essentials by : Karl Vaters
Download or read book Small Church Essentials written by Karl Vaters and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you lead a small church? Big churches get all the love. Articles, books, conferences—they mostly feature leaders of large congregations. Yet big churches are a small part of the ecclesial landscape. In fact, more than 90 percent of churches have fewer than 200 people. That means small churches play a big part in what God is doing. Small Church Essentials is for leaders of these smaller congregations. It encourages them to steward their role well, debunking myths about small churches while offering principles for leading a dynamic, healthy small church. Based on the popular six-hour lecture that Karl Vaters delivers to church leaders across the country, Small Church Essentials will affirm small church leaders and show them how to identify what they do well, and how to do it even better. Readers will: Be assured that leading a small congregation does not make them ministry failures Come away inspired to lead with passion, regardless the size of their church Have field-tested principles for leading a church in their context Possess new metrics for biblically measuring vitality in small churches Have a toolkit of resources to use in their everyday ministry Karl Vaters has been a small church pastor for 30 years, is the author of The Grasshopper Myth: Big Churches, Small Churches, and the Small Thinking that Divides Us (2013), and travels extensively to churches and conferences to speak about leading a small church well. If you are pastoring a small church, this book will be a breath of fresh air. It will affirm your calling while giving you fresh tools to help you lead. It will help you: Stop believing lies about small churches Lead your church to fulfill the role only small churches can Understand your congregation’s strengths and weaknesses Turn around a dying or unhealthy church Identify good trends and bad in church and culture
Download or read book Black Coffee. written by Kirby Alfaro and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I guess what inspired the title of this book was this idea of sitting down with God sharing conversation as naked and raw as the coffee I drink." - KIRBY ALFARO Do you know God? Do you really know God? The depressing reality is that most of us don't. In BLACK COFFEE, Kirby Alfaro confesses that the designer of the universe can seem distant, out of touch, and even unattainable. How do you even begin to build a relationship with someone like God? How do you turn an acquaintance into an old friend? This is not a self-help book bloated with formulas and templates written to touch up your spiritual reputation. Instead, this is a book that asks the tough questions, in hope for answers that bring to light a REAL, UNPOLISHED, BOLD, ROBUST, UNTAMED, RICH, STRONG, RAW, INTENSE friendship with God. Not a friendship to help you feel more like a Christian, but a friendship you've desired ever since the brink of your creation. KIRBY ALFARO is a pastor at Northplace Church in North Texas. He is a frequent speaker on issues relating to Christian spirituality and building relationship with God. He attended Southeastern University where he received a degree in pastoral ministry and a master's in leadership. He lives in North Texas.
Book Synopsis Small Church, Big Impact (Ebook Shorts) by : Brandon J. O'Brien
Download or read book Small Church, Big Impact (Ebook Shorts) written by Brandon J. O'Brien and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By gathering stories about effective churches from small-church pastors, Brandon O'Brien demonstrates that a church's success is not contingent on its size. This is a selection from Brandon O'Brien's book, The Strategically Small Church.
Book Synopsis Inside the Small Church by : Anthony G. Pappas
Download or read book Inside the Small Church written by Anthony G. Pappas and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even as so-called megachurches capture the attention of many church watchers, small congregations continue to dominate America's religious landscape in both rural and urban settings. Although sometimes obscured by their larger siblings, these small churches play a prominent role and hold a unique place in both local and national cultures. How can leaders help to keep these often at-risk churches alive and to meet their potential for ministry? Small-church expert Tony Pappas has gathered a cornucopia of essays into an indispensable book for anyone interested in the rich life of these small but significant congregations. Drawing on classic and updated articles by a variety of writers from his own small-church newsletter The Five Stones; from Alban journals Action Information and Congregations; and adding new pieces developed especially for this volume, Pappas provides timeless ideas on learning to value, pastor, develop, and lead the small church. In addition to time-honored articles by the editor, other contributors to this volume include Sherry and Douglas Alan Walrath, Gary Farley, Lawrence W. Farris, Loren Mead, Caroline Westerhoff, Steven Burt, Carl Dudley, David Ray, James Lowery, and a host of others known for their work-and love-for the small church. Readers of Inside the Small Church will come away with a renewed love and appreciation for these vital congregations as well as with new skills for ministry.
Book Synopsis The Megachurch and the Mainline by : Stephen Ellingson
Download or read book The Megachurch and the Mainline written by Stephen Ellingson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious traditions provide the stories and rituals that define the core values of church members. Yet modern life in America can make those customs seem undesirable, even impractical. As a result, many congregations refashion church traditions so they may remain powerful and salient. How do these transformations occur? How do clergy and worshipers negotiate which aspects should be preserved or discarded? Focusing on the innovations of several mainline Protestant churches in the San Francisco Bay Area, Stephen Ellingson’s The Megachurch and the Mainline provides new understandings of the transformation of spiritual traditions. For Ellingson, these particular congregations typify a new type of Lutheranism—one which combines the evangelical approaches that are embodied in the growing legion of megachurches with American society’s emphasis on pragmatism and consumerism. Here Ellingson provides vivid descriptions of congregations as they sacrifice hymns in favor of rock music and scrap traditional white robes and stoles for Hawaiian shirts, while also making readers aware of the long history of similar attempts to Americanize the Lutheran tradition. This is an important examination of a religion in flux—one that speaks to the growing popularity of evangelicalism in America.
Download or read book Love Big, Be Well written by Winn Collier and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonas McAnn is a weary pastor without a congregation, trapped in a dead-end insurance job. Granby Presbyterian is a weary congregation without a pastor, overwhelmed by the prospect of finding someone who actually wants to be a pastor—not a manager, coach, or CEO. When Granby's pastoral search committee and Jonas connect through handwritten letters passed back and forth, something sparks between them—something so real and refreshing that even after Jonas and his family move to Granby, he continues the regular practice of writing letters to his congregation. Spanning seven years of his ministry at Granby Presbyterian, Jonas's letters ruminate on everything from fly-fishing to the Nicene Creed. They reveal the earthy spirituality woven into the joys and sorrows of the people of Granby, the community of the church, and Jonas's own unfolding story. Readers will discover what it means for a pastor and a church to do the slow work of ministry in community—anchored by a common place and buoyed by a life of faith that is meaningful, rooted, and true.
Book Synopsis Thoughts on the Abundant Life by : David Montgomery
Download or read book Thoughts on the Abundant Life written by David Montgomery and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written as an attempt to help the writer move to a closer walk with God. Life is full of sadness, disappointment, and tragedy. During one of my life's worst moments, I read the wonderful book, "Thoughts for Everyday Living" by Mr. Maltbie B. Babcock, who was pastor of Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Maryland. He was acclaimed for his oratory and use of colorful metaphors in his sermons. His book changed my life for the better and I hold him and his writings in the highest esteem. I thank the Lord that I was blessed to read after him and publicly acknowledge his influence on my feeble attempts at writing. I dedicate this book to his memory and to the God that he served.
