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Book Synopsis Diagnosing the Heart of Your Church by : Mark Barnard
Download or read book Diagnosing the Heart of Your Church written by Mark Barnard and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-08-17 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diagnosing the Heart of Your Church equips you to explore the systemic health of your church. It alerts you to areas of church life that need strengthening. It helps you recognize if you simply have a problem in one area or if an unseen infection has spread through your church body. It's designed to help you ask the right questions, questions leaders need to discuss candidly. Most importantly, it offers you a tool to assess your congregation's true health.What does assessing "systemic corporate dysfunction" mean? It means looking beyond the apparent condition of your church. "Systemic" functioning relates to spiritual and relational dynamics that operate behind the scenes (and have operated historically) in the body of a church. Many pastors and ministry leaders ignore the ramifications of such underlying spiritual and relational issues. This grave oversight (or perhaps better, "under-sight") always proves costly. The Church Cardiology Series of books seeks to improve the corporate health of churches and ministries. Other titles in the series include, Healing the Heart of Your Church by Dr. Kenneth Quick, Sustaining the Heart of Your Church by Mark Barnard and the Healing the Heart of Your Church Facilitator's Guide and Participant Workbooks by Mark Barnard and Dr. Kenneth Quick.Rev. Mark Barnard serves as President of Blessing Point Ministries. Blessing Point works to heal ministries that have been wounded by painful crises. Mark has a BA in Bible and an MA in Pastoral Studies. He authored The Path of Revival: Restoring Our Nation One Church at a Time, and Joseph Unrobed: Holding on to Your Dreams When Life Seems Like a Nightmare. He coauthored The Eighth Letter: Jesus Still Speaks. Mark previously served in a variety of pastoral and teaching roles. He and his wife, Jeannie, reside in Peachtree City, GA.
Book Synopsis Healing the Heart of Your Church by : Kenneth Quick
Download or read book Healing the Heart of Your Church written by Kenneth Quick and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like an X-ray machine, Healing the Heart of Your Church helps ministries identify and address "root" causes of ministry frustration, providing a biblically-based, systemic approach to "body" problems. Newly revised, this Second Edition adds insights gleaned over fifteen years of working alongside ministries who experienced the Healing the Heart of Your Church process. In it, you will:� Make sense of why there is (and has been) so much pain in your ministry� Discover how Jesus uses corporate pain to speak to us and get us to listen� Learn His way to heal and rebuild damaged or broken trust in leadership� Bring lasting reconciliation and peace to your ministry� Experience new hope for spiritual revitalization and for fulfilling the purpose for which your ministry existsThe Church Cardiology Series of books seeks to improve the corporate health of churches and ministries. Other titles in the series include Diagnosing the Heart of Your Church and Sustaining the Heart of Your Church, by Mark Barnard and the Healing the Heart of Your Church Facilitator's Guide and Participant Workbooks by Mark Barnard and Ken Quick.Dr. Kenneth Quick is Professor Emeritus of Practical Theology at Capital Seminary and Graduate School in Greenbelt, Maryland, an arm of Lancaster Bible College. Previously, Ken was a Senior Pastor for 23 years. He earned Doctor of Ministry degrees in both Communication and in Marriage and Family Therapy. Ken also authored, Body Aches: The Experience of and Response to God's Discipline of your Church; Living for the Kingdom: Eternal Significance as a Motivation for Christian Living; and co-authored The Eighth Letter: Jesus Still Speaks. Ken serves as Director of Consulting for Blessing Point Ministries. He and his wife, Diane, reside in Columbia, Maryland.
Book Synopsis Sustaining the Heart of Your Church by : Mark Barnard
Download or read book Sustaining the Heart of Your Church written by Mark Barnard and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like physical therapy after a major surgery, Sustaining the Heart of Your Church is designed to help your ministry navigate the recovery period that follows corporate healing. During the recovery period, your church will face tests that challenge you to respond in ways that reflect a new spiritual trajectory. This books aims to further your church's transition to a healthier, more fruitful ministry. Sustaining the Heart of Your Church: - Provides guidance for transforming the relational values of your church. - Prepares you for predictable threats to your church's new found health. - Provides group exercises for ministry leaders to shore up your church's corporate health. - Encourages personal growth in your church's leaders. - Explores how to hear from the Lord - as a body. The Church Cardiology Series of books seeks to improve the corporate health of churches and ministries. Other titles in the series include, Healing the Heart of Your Church by Dr. Kenneth Quick, Diagnosing the Heart of Your Church by Mark Barnard and the Healing the Heart of Your Church Facilitator's Guide and Participant Workbook by Mark Barnard and Dr. Kenneth Quick. Rev. Mark Barnard serves as President of Blessing Point Ministries. Blessing Point's primary work focuses on healing ministries with painful histories. Mark has a BA in Bible and an MA in Pastoral Studies. He authored The Path of Revival: Restoring Our Nation One Church at a Time and Joseph Unrobed: Holding on to Your Dreams When Life Seems Like a Nightmare. He coauthored The Eighth Letter: Jesus Still Speaks. Mark previously served in a variety of pastoral and teaching roles. He and his wife Jeannie reside in Peachtree City, GA.
Book Synopsis Becoming a Healthy Church by : Stephen A. Macchia
Download or read book Becoming a Healthy Church written by Stephen A. Macchia and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A healthy church is possible. Here are ten traits to help you diagnose the state of your church and start it down the path to improvement.
Book Synopsis The Heart of Anger by : Christopher Ash
Download or read book The Heart of Anger written by Christopher Ash and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How should Christians understand anger, evaluate it, and respond for good? We all struggle with anger at times: Our plans suddenly fall through, we lose a prized possession, or our reputation is called into question. More often than not, when anger knocks at the doors of our hearts we easily allow it to take over. But what if getting to the heart of our anger also reveals the way to transform it? Christopher Ash and Steve Midgley address this question by bringing to bear what the whole Bible has to say about sinful anger—revealing that anger is the sinful response when something we value more than God is taken away or threatened. They reflect on biblical portraits of human anger, God's righteous anger, and how only the gospel of Jesus Christ brings true freedom—transforming a heart of anger into a heart filled with the love of God.
Book Synopsis Ten Questions to Diagnose Your Spiritual Health by : Donald S. Whitney
Download or read book Ten Questions to Diagnose Your Spiritual Health written by Donald S. Whitney and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do I know if I'm growing spiritually? In the distractions of daily life, it can be hard to evaluate how we are doing spiritually. But monitoring the pulse of your spiritual health is just as important as monitoring your mental and physical health. No matter where you are in your walk with Christ, bestselling author Don Whitney makes it easy to do a self-check on your spiritual wellbeing. Quickly evaluate your spiritual state by asking yourself these 10 convicting diagnostic questions: Do I thirst for God? Do I still grieve over sin? Am I a quicker forgiver? Am I more loving? Am I sensitive to God's presence? Am I concerned for others? Am I governed by God's Word? Do I delight in the church? Are the spiritual disciplines important to me? Do I yearn for heaven and to be with Jesus? By bringing the lofty idea of "sanctification" into a helpful and convicting spotlight, this concise and insightful book will transform your spiritual life. Now with a new discussion guide for group or personal use to help you dive deeper into each question. "Don Whitney's spiritual feet are blessedly cemented in the wisdom of the Bible. This is as beneficial as it is solid." --J. I. Packer, author and theologian
Download or read book Why Churches Die written by Mac Brunson and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2005 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparing physical poisons to the spiritual poisons, authors identify ailments that affect the body of Christ in order to prevent the breakdown and decay of the church.
Download or read book Churches That Heal written by Doug Murren and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why should churches heal? Does your church touch the lives of broken people and bring healing to their hearts? How does a church become that healing force that glorifies God and impacts whole communities? In a desperately hurting world full of toxic relationships, crippled values, and mutilated morality, lives are crying out for real healing—not drug-induced solutions, not psychobabble Band-Aids, but authentic answers that heal the heart, soul, mind, and strength. Doug Murren, in this insightful, inspiring, and instructive book, reveals why and how you can become a healing force in your neighborhood, community, and the world.
Book Synopsis Healing Your Church Hurt by : Stephen Mansfield
Download or read book Healing Your Church Hurt written by Stephen Mansfield and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-02-17 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you’ve been part of a church, you have probably suffered a “church hurt”—or know someone who has. Maybe the pastor had an affair or the congregation fought over money or the leaders were disguising gossip as “prayer.” Stephen Mansfield knows how it feels. Though he is now a New York Times bestselling author, he was a pastor for more than 20 years, and he loved it—until he learned how much a church can hurt. Yet he also learned how to dig out of that hurt, break through the bitterness and anger, stop making excuses, and get back to where he ought to be with God and his people. If you’re ready to choose the tough path to healing, Mansfield will walk you through it with brotherly love, showing you how you can be better than ever on the other side of this mess—if you’re willing to start Healing Your Church Hurt. Previously published as ReChurch.
Book Synopsis Ministering to Problem People in Your Church by : Marshall Shelley
Download or read book Ministering to Problem People in Your Church written by Marshall Shelley and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you face well-intentioned dragons? Every church has them--sincere, well-meaning Christians who leave ulcers, strained relationships, and hard feelings in their wake. They don't intend to be hostile; they don't consciously plot destruction or breed discontent. But they often do undermine the ministry of the church and make pastors question their calling. Ministering to Problem People in Your Church will guide you in dealing with these challenging people. Based on real-life accounts of battle-scarred veterans, this book helps you go beyond just tolerating problem people to limiting their damage and showing them God's love. You'll discover effective strategies to turn dissidents into disciples. This time-tested book by the editor-in-chief of Christianity Today's Leadership Journal has new chapters on using social media and caring for those with mental illness. It will help you not only preserve your sanity (and maybe your job), but minister more effectively, even to those who make life difficult.
Book Synopsis Take Your Church's Pulse by : Tim Koster
Download or read book Take Your Church's Pulse written by Tim Koster and published by Multiplication Network Ministries. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take Your Church's Pulse presents ten vital signs of a healthy church--five key commitments and five key functions. It then introduce you to a church-health diagnostic tool you can apply to your setting. Thousands of pastors and leaders around the world have found this paradigm helpful in organizing the ministry and mission of the local church. This book and the free diagnostic tool it presents are most useful if accompanied by a healthy process of conversations. With such a process, led by the Spirit, this book can help you discern a preferred future for your community of faith. Koster and Wagenveld write: "A healthy community of faith is rooted first of all in the character and nature of God. It understands its mission and purpose in the world and organizes its life and work to be faithful and effective in its context. None of these vital signs stands alone. It is a combination of factors that together make up a faithful and fruitful organism, the living Church of our Lord Jesus Christ. There is no magic in the number ten, but for the teaching purposes it has worked quite well in different cultural contexts in providing ideas and a language for discussing important issues in congregational life and mission." The intended audience for this book is any pastor, leader, or church member who is interest in having healthy conversations with others to strengthen the local church.
Book Synopsis With All Your Heart by : A. Craig Troxel
Download or read book With All Your Heart written by A. Craig Troxel and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Here is a book to be welcomed enthusiastically, to be read carefully, and to be returned to frequently.” –Sinclair B. Ferguson In our world, we use the word heart to refer to our emotions. But the Bible uses the word heart to refer to the governing center of life. We need to grasp the true meaning of the heart in order to better understand ourselves, our sin, and our need for redemption. As we rediscover the heart as the source of all our thoughts, fears, words, and actions, we will discover principles and practices for orienting our hearts to truly love and obey God with all that we are.
Book Synopsis Cracking Your Church's Culture Code by : Samuel R. Chand
Download or read book Cracking Your Church's Culture Code written by Samuel R. Chand and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategies for transforming a toxic church culture Why is it that the best strategic plans and good leadership often are not able to move churches in the desired direction? Sam Chand contends that toxic culture is to blame. Quite often, leaders don't sense the toxicity, but it poisons their relationships and derails their vision. This work describes five easily identifiable categories of church culture (inspiring-accepting-stagnant-discouraging-toxic), with diagnostic descriptions in the book and a separate online assessment tool. The reader will be able to identify strengths and needs of their church's culture, and then apply practical strategies (communication, control and authority, selection and placement of personnel, etc.) to make their church's culture more positive. Discusses how to diagnose the state of a church's culture Reveals what it takes to put in place effective strategies for creating a more positive church culture Author served on the board of EQUIP (Dr. John Maxwell's Ministry), equipping five million leaders world-wide. This important book offers a clear guide for understanding and recreating a healthy church culture.
Download or read book If You Only Knew written by O Sonny Acho and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Christians are quite adept at masking their pain behind smiles and handshakes, we experience pain and suffering in proportions equal to the non-Christian world. Dr. O. Sonny Acho has written If You Only Knew to awaken church leaders and the church in general to the pain of those in the pews. He challenges preachers to go beyond preaching, and parishioners to be more involved in the day-to-day struggles of those within the body. By informing leaders, Dr. Acho believes they will better train their flock to get into each other's lives, relieve pain, and help each other live more like Christ.
Book Synopsis Your Church Can Grow by : C. Peter Wagner
Download or read book Your Church Can Grow written by C. Peter Wagner and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2001-01-11 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is your church healthy and growing or stagnant and dying? If your church is afflicted with remnant theology, spiritual naval gazing, pastoral timidity, hyper-cooperativism, or terminal ethnikitis, changes are it's already dying on the vine. On the other hand, if your church is growing it's probably ad healthy church. "Healthy churches, like healthy people," says the author, "exhibit certain vital signs." Wagner has his own list of 7 "signs" that lead can be taken as leading to good health and gives many illustrations of churches that exhibit and/or don't exhibit those signs. - Back cover.
Book Synopsis When Narcissism Comes to Church by : Chuck DeGroat
Download or read book When Narcissism Comes to Church written by Chuck DeGroat and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chuck DeGroat has been counseling pastors with narcissistic personality disorder and those wounded by narcissistic leaders for over twenty years. Offering compassion and hope for both narcissists themselves and those affected by its destructive power, DeGroat imparts wise counsel for churches looking to heal from its systemic effects.
Book Synopsis Screwtape Vs. the Church by : Mark Barnard
Download or read book Screwtape Vs. the Church written by Mark Barnard and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Screwtape VS. The Church explores the nature of spiritual warfare in local churches. While many authors have written on demonic oppression/possession of individuals, few address how this plays out in churches. You may be surprised to discover that Satan's foothold in churches is easily gained and often difficult to dislodge.The keys to exposing and expelling a church's demons revolve around themes described in Screwtape VS. The Church:* Discerning whether demonic activity is a symptom or the cause of church problems.* Realizing that Satan needs permission to trouble a church.* Grasping the two main strategies Satan uses to gain a foothold in churches.* Understanding how corporate sin impacts a church's relationship with God.* Recognizing the biblical process that awakens a new spirit in oppressed congregations.If your ministry seems unaffected by demonic interference, this book can ward off future trouble. If your church struggles to make progress despite your best efforts, it may shed light on issues of which you were previously unaware. In the latter case, it launches you toward the goal of setting your church free.The included study guide allows you to explore the biblical underpinnings behind each of the letters between Screwtape and Pewbug, two demons intent on spoiling ministries like yours.
