Checking Your Church's Pulse
Author | : Group |
Publisher | : Group Publishing (Company) |
Total Pages | : 47 |
Release | : 1994-07-01 |
Genre | : Christian education |
ISBN | : 9781559454087 |
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Author | : Group |
Publisher | : Group Publishing (Company) |
Total Pages | : 47 |
Release | : 1994-07-01 |
Genre | : Christian education |
ISBN | : 9781559454087 |
Author | : Tim Koster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Church |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Timothy Koster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2014-05-28 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780986229602 |
This book presents ten vital signs of a healthy church--five key commitments and five key functions. It then introduces 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 to discern a preferred future for your community of faith.The intended audience for this book is any pastor, leader or church member who is interested in having healthy conversations with others to strengthen the local church.
Author | : Tim Koster |
Publisher | : Multiplication Network Ministries |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2014-10-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
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.
Author | : Brodie I. Johnson, Ph.D. |
Publisher | : Jones Harvest Pub |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 2008-06-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781603881425 |
A practical churchgoer's guide.In the scramble of recruitment and the incorporation of new ideas, many churches have lost their way. The sense of community and purpose that is so key to a church has lost its firm footing, and many churches are either floundering or merely collapsing.It is this phenomenon and problem that Johnson sets out to fix in his new book, Taking the Pulse of Leadership in YOUR Church. Half-critique, half-guide, Johnson goes to great lengths to expose and rectify this growing epidemic. Included in this guide are directions on how to assess your own in-church problems, a toolkit on how to fix the issues, and a roadmap on how to plan for a better future.This book is a must have for all aspiring or flailing church communities, and is a primer on the value of social research in a broader spectrum of contexts.
Author | : Kevin G. Harney |
Publisher | : Zondervan |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2018-05-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0310566088 |
Nearly all churches and ministries consider themselves dedicated to evangelism, and many explicitly include outreach in their mission statements. But few are actually bearing fruit. Kevin Harney diagnoses this problem and offers guidance for multiplying the outreach impact of churches. Organic Outreach for Churches provides direction for local congregations to weave evangelism into the fabric of the church. Commitment to the Great Commission is not simply about sending money and prayers to missions or holding occasional events to reach out (although these things are good). Organic outreach happens when evangelistic vision and action become the domain of every ministry and the commitment of every person in the congregation. This will not happen accidentally. There is huge spiritual and practical resistance to such changes. But the only way evangelism will become an organic part of a church is when every leader and each member is gripped by a commitment to proclaiming the gospel. This book is a roadmap for pastors and leaders who wish to infuse evangelistic passion into every aspect of their church's life.
Author | : Cindy S. Hansen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Christian education of teenagers |
ISBN | : 9781559452052 |
Author | : April Fiet |
Publisher | : Broadleaf Books |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2021-12-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1506469094 |
Contemporary life is leaving us frazzled, overwhelmed, and out of sorts. Our life's rhythm is often borrowed from the pace of life around us. Humans have created such a loud, fast tempo of perfection and production that we often forget--if we ever knew it at all--the rhythms designed for our well-being. In The Sacred Pulse, pastor and author April Fiet invites us to examine the frantic patterns of our lives to reclaim the deeper, sacred pulses that pattern our days. Through stories, scripture, and practical guidance for daily living, she lays out twelve rhythms--including gardening, handcrafts, friendship, and holidays--that are both sustainable and sustaining. Everyday acts like mealtime and shopping, and sporadic rhythms like the occasional snow day: reclaiming these patterns can remind us of the holy movement of God in the world. In a world of hustle and bravado, silencing the noise takes practice. The Sacred Pulse shows us how to strip away all of the competing beats we have settled for so we can tap into the joyful, holy rhythms of life.
Author | : Lenny Duncan |
Publisher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2019-07-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1506452574 |
Lenny Duncan is the unlikeliest of pastors. Formerly incarcerated, he is now a black preacher in the whitest denomination in the United States: the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Shifting demographics and shrinking congregations make all the headlines, but Duncan sees something else at work--drawing a direct line between the church's lack of diversity and the church's lack of vitality. The problems the ELCA faces are theological, not sociological. But so are the answers. Part manifesto, part confession, and all love letter, Dear Church offers a bold new vision for the future of Duncan's denomination and the broader mainline Christian community of faith. Dear Church rejects the narrative of church decline and calls everyone--leaders and laity alike--to the front lines of the churchÂs renewal through racial equality and justice. It is time for the church to rise up, dust itself off, and take on forces of this world that act against God: whiteness, misogyny, nationalism, homophobia, and economic injustice. Duncan gives a blueprint for the way forward and urges us to follow in the revolutionary path of Jesus.
Author | : Karen Dockery |
Publisher | : Group Publishing (Company) |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780931529733 |
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