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Equipping the Equippers
Handbook for Raising Up Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors, & Teacher
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
The topic of fivefold ministry—the apostle, prophet, teacher, pastor, and evangelist appointed by Christ to equip His church (Eph. 4:11)—was central to two movements in previous decades: the Shepherding Movement in the 1970s, and the New Apostolic Reformation in the 1990s and early 2000s. While both...
The Gospel after Christendom
New Voices, New Cultures, New Expressions
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Emerging and missional church movements are an increasingly global phenomenon; they exist as holistic communities that defy dualistic Western forms of church. Until now, many of the voices from these movements have gone unheard. In this volume, Ryan Bolger assembles some of the most innovative church...
The Everychurch Guide to Growth
How Any Plateaued Church Can Grow
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998
A growing church is a living church, but much of the attention in church growth today is focused on making big churches bigger. This encouraging new book shows members of small and medium-sized congregations how to revive and expand their ministries as well. Churches of every size tend to plateau...
Ready, Set Grow!
Three Conversations That Will Bring Lasting Growth to Your Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
In the American church, we talk a lot about developing leaders, but few pastors have a real strategy to turn willing workers into dynamic multipliers. Scott Wilson is one of those few. God gave Scott a vision and a plan for his staff team and volunteers. It wasn't a quick fix. The strategy took three...
by Lewis A. Parks
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Step into the pulpit in a small membership church, and you’ll sometimes find your fair share of challenges, but you’ll almost always find more than your share of blessings as well. Those blessings, and the chance for authentic, life-transforming preaching, are what preaching in the small membership...
by Zacharias Tanee Fomum
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
The training of church leaders has been one of my main areas of contribution to church growth in the church in Yaounde.
Burdened with the need for competent pastors for the growing number of House Churches in the city of Yaounde, I gave these lessons on leading a House Church to about 800 leaders...
by Anthony G. Pappas
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
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...
by Lloyd Perry, Gilbert Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 1981
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 1981
Where does your church turn during crisis? How can you prevent it in the first place?
Crisis happens. The question is, what will you do when it comes? Churches in Crisis gives wisdom and instruction to church members, pastors, and lay leaders. It includes suggestions for avoiding common issues...
by Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Exploring the reasons why more than 70 percent of teens stop going to church when they reach adulthood, this impassioned proposal outlines ways that churches can retain their youth populations by giving them opportunities to take on leadership responsibility. Difficult questions, meant to foster self-exploration...
Who Moved My Pulpit?
Leading Change in the Church
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
*Who Moved My Pulpit? *may not be the exact question you’re asking. But you’re certainly asking questions about change in the church—where it’s coming from, why it’s happening, and how you’re supposed to hang on and follow God through it—even get out ahead of it so your church is...
The Building of an American Catholic Church
The Episcopacy of John Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Originally published in 1988. The new-found freedom and changing attitudes towards Catholics after the American Revolution presented the Catholic Church with its first real opportunity to prosper in the English speaking "new world". But the Catholic Church could not take advantage of this...
Wounded Hearts and Empty Pews
Biblical Guidelines to Deal with a Church Split
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
What causes people to leave their church?
Is it ever right to leave a church?
Are all church splits bad?
How do you leave a church when leaving seems inevitable?
How do you heal from the emotional and spiritual pain that comes from a harsh division?
While these are not easy questions to answer,...
The Chaldean Catholic Church
Modern History, Ecclesiology and Church-State Relations
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
This book provides a modern historical study of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Iraq from 2003 to 2013, against a background analysis of the origins and ecclesiological development of the Chaldean community from the sixteenth century onwards.
The book offers an insight into the formation of...
by Michael Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Randall Davidson was Archbishop of Canterbury for quarter of a century. Davidson was a product of the Victorian ecclesiastical and social establishment, whose advance through the Church was dependent on the patronage of Queen Victoria, but he became Archbishop at a time of huge social and political...