Church category: 10276 books
Underground Church
A Living Example of the Church in Its Most Potent Form
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
What If the Church Truly Empowered People to Engage in God's Mission?
Something extraordinary has been happening in Tampa, Florida. A new expression of the church has been quietly growing. It's something of an experiment, but over the last ten years the church has been validating its ideas...
For a New Generation
A Practical Guide for Revitalizing Your Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
A New Generation Church is a church with attendees whose average age is at least as young as the average age of the community in which the church exists. Any church can become a New Generation Church that reaches and continues to reach the next generation.
The Psalmist writes:
We will...
Church Diversity
Sunday The Most Segregated Day of the Week
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Diversity in the Church Matters to God The local Church is the hope of the world
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said it best over 45 years ago: “We must face the sad fact that at 11 o’clock on Sunday morning, when we stand to sing… we stand in the most segregated hour in America.”
What...
by Lee Powell
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Starting a church plant or leading a church can be hard. Every church plant or those with leadership responsibilities are looking to effectively grow their church. As Christians, we were commanded by Jesus to fulfill the great commission. The mission was simple when CedarCreek Church started in 1995,...
The Equipping Church
Serving Together to Transform Lives
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2009
Picture your church as a place where the priesthood of believers finds its expression in creative and powerful ways. Picture leaders and staff equipping and unleashing people to minister in ways consistent with how God designed them. Think of the effectiveness, vitality, and contentment that come...
by Faber, George Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
THE Bishop of Meaux, the very able and acute Bossuet, has constructed an ingenious argument from the Prophetic Promises of Christ, which is for ever to establish the Roman Church and the Churches in communion with her as the sole visible Church Catholic, while it is for ever to exclude the Protestant...
Hiring Church Employees
Church Office Series, #1
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
A practical guidebook to successful hiring. Aimed at pastors, church leaders, and church office supervisors, this guidebook covers the whole hiring process. Hiring Church Employees covers everything from planning your staffing needs to advertising your job openings, from conducting interviews to completing...
Church Planter (Foreword by Mark Driscoll): The Man, the Message, the Mission
The Man, the Message, the Mission
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
Much of what is written about church planting aims at methodology and strategy for facing such challenges, but specific strategies do not apply to every context. What lies deeper, at the heart ofevery church plant?
The most critical human component of every church plant is the planter.
Darrin...
Dangerous Church
Risking Everything to Reach Everyone
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Dangerous churches should be norm. Church leaders and church people alike shrink back from danger because we want safety. Jesus said that he's overcome the world and its troubles. Dangerous churches put everything on the line for the one thing that matters most: reaching lost people.It's dangerous...
Just Say Yes! Devotional
Unleashing People for Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
In Just Say Yes! Robert Schnase shows church leaders how to unleash people for fruitful ministry. He teaches leaders to spot their own nay-saying, and gives specific instructions for reversing the culture of ‘No’ that has become so prevalent in many churches. Step by step, Schnase shows readers—pastors,...
Why They Stay
Helping Parents and Church Leaders Make Investments That Keep Children and Teens Connected to the Church for a Lifetime
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Do you want your children to be actively serving in the local church when they turn thirty and beyond? Why The Stay can help! Much has been written about younger adults and their departure from church involvement. Concerned parents and church leaders want to know what has caused them to depart. Instead...
by David Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
Have you ever wondered why Christian women, just two or three generations ago, often wore some type of covering on their heads while in church? -- And why men always took off their hats when it was time to pray?
It is well-documented throughout Church history that the use of headcoverings was...
THE CHURCH CURE
Overcoming Church Problems
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
In order to overcome and church problems, we must first talk about the different problems of the church. Many of the church problems today stem from the isms: liberalism, humanism, modernism, Christian progressivism, theological liberalism, feminism, higher criticism, and biblical criticism. Moreover,...
Biblical Church Growth
How You Can Work with God to Build a Faithful Church
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
Every pastor wants to have a vibrant, dynamic church. There are many popular models for church growth based on outstanding churches led by outstanding pastors. But unfortunately, specific models are temporary and go out of style quickly. Author Gary McIntosh explores the biblical principles for church...