Church Administration category: 339 books
by James Griffith, William Easum
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Jim Griffith and Bill Easum draw from decades of personal experience in planting new churches and consulting with supervisors and planters in new church starts. They have condensed their vast experiences down to ten points that account for the great majority of failures among church planters. For...
by Gary Mayes, Dann Spader
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 1993
"Sheep swapping", "shuffling of the saints"- Whatever you call it, many churches are growing only because Christians transfer from one church to another. What's more, many churches aren't growing at all. The problem, according to authors, Dann Spader and Gary Mayes, is that too...
Malachi's Message to God's Church Today
A message to God's true Church
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
This is a story about God’s Church gone off track, and what God did to correct the tragedy.
In this booklet: • A Call to Remembrance • Hold Fast • Laodicean Era • Following Elijah • End-Time Joshua in Bondage • "Man of Sin" • "Prophecy Not" • Church Division • Malachi's Message
Trending Up
Social Media Strategies for Today's Church
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Every church has a story that can change the course of people's lives—but how do you share that story beyond your four walls?
Throughout these pages, you'll find simple strategies for creating powerful content that can connect your church to the people who need the life-changing story of...
by Susan Beaumont
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
For five years, Alban Institute senior consultant Susan Beaumont has been giving voice to the organizational and leadership demands of large congregations. Through her work, she has identified five basic leadership systems that need to stay in alignment for the large church to function well for its...
Integrity at Stake
Safeguarding Your Church from Financial Fraud
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Integrity at Stake: Safeguarding Your Church from Financial Fraud by Rollie Dimos is a financial resource book intended for pastors, church leaders, and church administrators. Dimos' expertise as a certified fraud examiner and internal auditor provides the church audience with essential tools and...
Leaving Christendom for Good
Church-World Dialogue in a Secular Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Leaving Christendom for Good argues that the solution to some of the most troubling tensions in the life of the Catholic Church since Vatican II can be found in the council’s document Gaudium et spes. This text’s view of the church’s mission and social relationships as dialogical has the capacity...
Go BIG
Lead Your Church to Explosive Growth
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Bill Easum and Bil Cornelius are two strikingly different, yet surprisingly similar pastors. One undertook to revitalize a moribund mainline church; the other, to plant a new nondenominational congregation. Coming from different generations, their ministries took place under dissimilar circumstances....
by Thom S. Rainer
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 1999
For over a quarter of a century the problem of losing church members has progressively increased. Today the situation is so bad that less than one-third of the members in some churches attend worship services. Church leaders are crying for help.In an effort to help church leaders, the Billy Graham...
by C. Silvester Horne
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
A Century of Christian Service : Kensington Congregational Church, 1793-1893
Of the Kensington of 1793 I need not say much; for most of those who read this little book will be quite familiar with the astonishing change that has come over this locality since then. We like...
Faith and Leadership
The Papacy and the Roman Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
This study is a comprehensive history of the papacy, the oldest elective office in the world, and how it has managed over the centuries the most complex voluntary association of faith. The book argues that in fact through most of its existence, the papacy has adapted managerial models of the secular...
The Coming Revolution in Church Economics
Why Tithes and Offerings Are No Longer Enough, and What You Can Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
Local church pastors, church planters, and nonprofit organizational leaders are beginning to recognize that tithes and offerings alone are no longer enough to provide for the needs of their ministries, enable them to pursue opportunities, and sustain long-term impact. Growing financial burdens on...
Making Your Church More Inviting
A Step-by-Step Guide for In-Church Training
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1992
If you've read the book or viewed the course, now lead your church in study with this workbook approach to Alban's Inviting Church materials. Its fifteen sessions are designed to help clergy or lay leaders guide committees or study groups through a dynamic exploration of their congregation's IQ (invitation...
by J. Todd Kingrea
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Bullying.
It’s an issue that has taken on renewed emphasis in our electronically-connected, social media world. We’re more aware than ever that bullying happens in many places: in the workplace, on professional sports teams, in schools and on social media. Everyone from supermodels to...