Church Institutions category: 259 books
One Church, Four Generations
Understanding and Reaching All Ages in Your Church
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
The challenge facing today's church is simultaneous and effective ministry to people of four widely divergent generations. More than at any time in history, pastors must plan programs that will appeal to a mosaic of groups and subgroups. This updated edition of Three Generations: Riding the Waves...
New Standards
for Key Music Ministry Leadership Positions in the Black Baptist Church (a 21st Century Perspective)
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Ouida W. Harding has focused her attention on music ministry and by doing so she has provided a useful resource, not only for those who serve in music ministry, but also for the rest of us who are a part of the worshipping community of faith. —J. Wendell Mapson Jr., Pastor, Monumental Baptist Church,...
The Future Church
How Ten Trends are Revolutionizing the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
One of the world’s foremost religion journalists offers an unexpected and provocative look at where the Catholic Church is headed*—and what the changes will mean for all of us.*
What will the Catholic Church be like in 100 years? Will there be a woman pope? Will dioceses throughout the...
A New Kind of Church
Understanding Models of Ministry for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
There is no shortage of books these days on new ways of "doing church." New church models have been both warmly embraced and roundly criticized. What are church leaders and others concerned about the state of the church to make of all this? Does the Bible prescribe a standard model for doing...
by David Goodhew
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Concern about church growth and decline is widespread and contentious, yet theological reflection on church growth is scarce. Reflecting on the Bible, dogmatic theology and church history, this book situates the numerical growth of the church within wider Christian theology. Leading international...
by Loren B. Mead
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
In 1991 The Once and Future Church by Alban Institute founder and former director Loren B. Mead created an instant sensation in congregational circles with its prophetic insights into the life of the church in a post-Christendom era. Still often-quoted and in demand, the book stands as Alban's all-time...
This is the Church that God Built
A History of Crossway Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2018
Crossway church has served the community of the Elephant and Castle for over a century and from three different buildings. Today it is home to ten congregations, three day centres, and numerous community groups.
This book traces some of the church's history against the wider context of urban...
A Church in Search of Itself
Benedict XVI and the Battle for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A deeply informed look at the intensifying struggle over the future of the Catholic Church.
Robert Blair Kaiser examines the most important and divisive issues confronting the Church: the sex abuse scandal, a shortage of priests due to the insistence upon celibacy, the ban on contraception,...
by Roy A. Teel, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
How can something meant for such good go so bad? Against the Grain takes you inside the mega-church machine, dissects the structure of these monolithic temples (claimed to be dedicated to God) and shows them for what they really are: huge mega-businesses that survive by using fear, guilt and psychological...
by Mark Dever, Joshua Harris
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2004
What makes for a healthy church? A large congregation? Plentifulparking? Vibrant music?
You may have read books on this topic before-but not like thisone. This new expanded edition of Nine Marks of a Healthy Church isnot an instruction manual for church growth. It is a pastor'srecommendation...
Church That Works
Your One-Stop Resource for Effective Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
The expertise of veteran church consultant and best-selling author Gary McIntosh is now available in an easily portable format. McIntosh offers readers his invaluable insights on the church in order to help leaders make their churches more effective. It's just like hiring your own church consultant,...
The Commercial Church
Black Churches and the New Religious Marketplace in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
In this new book on the rise of commercial black 'mega churches,' Mary Hinton examines the rich legacy of the historic black church from the dual perspectives of theology and religious education. She explores the new religious models emerging from the tradition of the historic black church and questions...
Where Is the Power?
Moving Beyond What the Church Has Lost
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Bishop Howard A. Robinson, Jr. cuts to the heart of the matter, as to what has been lost in the present day church. The present day church has lost its power to sin. We are witnessing the evidence of sin all around us as never before: sin in the church, sin in our community and sin in our homes. Bishop...
When the Enlightenment Hit the Neighborhoods
The Waning of the Catholic Tradition - and Hope for Its Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Faith and reason are in a fight, and faith is losing.
Why has the traditional, authority-based way of doing faith collapsed? Only fifteen percent of young Catholics attend church regularly. If ex-Catholics were a religious denomination, they would be the third-largest in the U.S. The young,...