The Church Inside Out
Author | : Johannes Christiaan Hoekendijk |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Christianity |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Johannes Christiaan Hoekendijk |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Christianity |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Walt Kallestad |
Publisher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781451419894 |
Drawing on his experience at Community Church of Joy, Kallestad makes the case for transforming congregations into mission centers that bring Christian witness and practice into all the arenas of personal and civic life.
Author | : Linda Bergquist |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2009-10-19 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0470383178 |
A design-thinking book for planting or redesigning churches and incubating a new generation of leaders. Written by Linda Bergquist and Allan Karr, two experienced church planters and mentors, the book is full of wisdom, practical advice, and creative counsel. Instead of a business-model-as-usual approach, the authors challenge readers to begin with the raw materials of beliefs, values, individuals, teams, and culture, and to then move outwards to draw from a rich palette of real and potential church paradigms. This book is meant to provoke church leaders to think outside of the box and to imagine how their churches might better reflect the image and the mission of God in the world. Contains a wealth of illustrative examples, charts, and other visual aides Offers a creative practical perspective and a multi-disciplinary approach to establishing a new church or leading an existing one Shows how to honor a church's purpose while embracing its unique culture Includes important lessons for nurturing church leadership skills
Author | : George Barna |
Publisher | : Baker Books |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2002-10-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1441223584 |
According to the author, America has more unchurched people than the entire populations of all but 11 of the world's 194 nations! Based on research among several thousand unchurched people, the book discusses their values, attitudes, beliefs, religious practices, demographics, life goals, and spiritual expectations. Using additional research conducted among churches that have had great success in attracting and retaining unchurched people, the author also outlines perspectives and effective strategies for churches that wish to reach those who avoid churches. Understanding what makes the unchurched tick will give you a better chance of relating to them in meaningful ways.
Author | : Peyton Jones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Christianity |
ISBN | : 9781434704931 |
1st Century Expansion for 21st Century PunksChrist didn t give us a plan B. You ve probably seen what the apostles did with plan A. Impressive stuff. Why then is the 21st century church with all its size and gadgets so inept at reaching people? In a bold no-holds-barred approach, "Church Zero" challenges next-gen leaders to return to a New Testament model of church. "
Author | : Anthony B. Robinson |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2006-02-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780802860651 |
Biblical scholar Robert Wall and pastoral leader Anthony Robinson here join forces to bring the Acts of the Apostles forward to our time as a resource for congregational renewal and transformation.Featuring both careful exegetical study and exciting contemporary exposition, the fifteen chapters of Called to Be Church each first interpret the text of Acts as Scripture and then engage Acts for today's church. The book dives into many of the most vexing issues faced by the church then and now -- such issues as conflict resolution, pluralism and multiculturalism, sexuality, money, church and state, the role of the Holy Spirit, and more.Enhanced by study questions at the end of each chapter, Called to Be Church will lend itself especially well to small-group study within congregations. Pastors, lay readers, students, and ordinary believers alike will find the book helpful and inspiring.
Author | : Andrew Strom |
Publisher | : Revival School |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2008-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780979907357 |
It all began with a Radio show and an email - when Andrew Strom was invited onto a Christian radio station to discuss the growing phenomenon of "Out-of-church Christians" - the fact that seemingly tens of thousands of dedicated believers are leaving the churches. But why? That same week he published an article on the subject on his international Email List. The result was an absolute deluge of responses from all over the world - literally thousands. Christian Pollster George Barna has stated that the number of unchurched adults in America is growing by a staggering ONE MILLION people per year. Barna's research has also found that there are more than 13 million 'Born Again' believers in America who do not attend church. Why is this trend growing? Why are thousands upon thousands of devoted Christians leaving the churches? Is it a 'movement'? And why is it occurring in so many different parts of the world? This is a book that every Christian leader should read. Hear from dozens of believers who have left - and why. Are there solutions to this crisis? A book for everyone concerned about the future of Western Christianity - and where it is heading today.
Author | : Peter M. J. Stravinskas |
Publisher | : Our Sunday Visitor Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Salvation outside the Catholic Church |
ISBN | : 9781931709361 |
Can a Methodist be saved? What about a Hindu? Father Stravinskas shows us why the Church's teaching on Salvation is a comfort and a joy to all humanity.
Author | : C. John Miller |
Publisher | : Zondervan |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0310284112 |
This is a book for pacesetters -- church leaders who desire to help their churches break free of the things that turn them in on themselves. It is a masterly mix of biblical principle, objective analysis, and personal experience.
Author | : Steven M. Tipton |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2024-09-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1538197065 |
Why are so many Americans leaving church? Half no longer belong to a congregation. A quarter now say they are unchurched, up from one in six a decade ago and one in twelve a generation ago, led by more than a third of young adults. Where have they gone, and what are they doing instead? What moves them? What should we make of it? What can we learn as well from those who have stayed or returned, and from congregations that have sparked their continuing commitment or renewed participation?After decades of drift and several long years of grievous pandemic that shut church doors and crowded the internet, the time has come to weigh these questions more closely and answer them more carefully. We need to open a keener moral inquiry into the arc of spiritual change in America. We need to probe a thicker cultural account of intergenerational religious influence and inspiration that we practice today in forms of ritual action, sacred expression, and moral community that reach far beyond the pews. In and Out of Church tackles these tasks. It’s a book voiced by spiritually attuned, morally articulate young adults adrift from the churches and temples of their childhood yet immersed in currents of spiritual practice and imagination now shifting the shape and course of American religion. In heartfelt dialogue with their baby-boom parents these Millennials ponder how and why they got here in terms that open up and deepen the “spiritual but not religious” story sketched by surveys of “religious nones.” This book brings these numbers to life and makes moral sense of this story of individuals leaving church by setting it within the larger cultural drama of modern multiplex society and quicksilver selfhood in search of authentic fulfillment in caring community. It takes the reader inside a mushrooming megachurch in Silicon Valley and three thriving mainline congregations in Atlanta to see how they reach out to unchurched young adults and hold onto their own as they come of age by “putting belonging before believing and behaving.” They lift up spiritual experience above creed and code, and they challenge conventions of “organized religion” in ways that many “spiritual and religious” churchgoers have now come to embrace.