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Resurrection Of Ministry
$24.99IVP Print On Demand Title
This book takes us deep into the practice of ministry showing us the basis of ministry in the hope of Christ’s resurrection. Ministry in and with Christ takes place in the mood of Holy Saturday, that is, between Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection, between the times. We find Christ’s real joy and hope in the midst of struggles, difficulties and even suffering as we serve and minister in his name.This book takes us deep into the practice of ministry showing us the basis of ministry in the hope of Christ’s resurrection. Ministry in and with Christ takes place in the mood of Holy Saturday, that is, between Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection, between the times. We find Christ’s real joy and hope in the midst of struggles, difficulties and even suffering as we serve and minister in his name.
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Mujeres En El Ministero – (Spanish)
$15.99Presents four viewpoints regarding the role of women in the church. They are the traditionalsit, those who favor male leadership, those who favor joint leadership, and those that see women as equal to men in regard to leadership in the church.
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Guide To Spiritual And Economic Empowerment
$18.73This project is the result of a study on economic and spiritual empowerment in the black church. This topic began with a focus group in the Doctor of Ministry program at United Theological Seminary, led by mentors Drs. Lewis V. Baldwin and Victor Anderson. One of the major hindrances to the economic empowerment of the black church and community is economic management.
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1 Faith
$20.99IVP Print And Demand Title
Is the evangelical church drifting away from the unity Christ desires as we fragment into ever-smaller divisions? Packer and Oden believe a significant theological consensus still holds us together. Here they examine 16 theological themes in light of over 75 key statements of faith—from the 1974 Lausanne Covenant to the Amsterdam Declaration of 2000.
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Holy Spirit Is Not For Sale
$21.17For more than sixteen years, veteran journalist J. Lee Grady has kept a finger on the pulse of the charismatic and Pentecostal renewal, which restored the power of the Holy Spirit to the church, but which now suffers from abuse. Since many Spirit-empowered believers have lost their original focus and purity, Grady delves into some of the problems that plague churches and ministries: financial scandal, faulty theology, moral failure, and more.
Yet the message of this fervent journalist, who loves the gifts of the Spirit, isn’t one of condemnation and finger-pointing. Instead it is a clarion call to restore the fire of supernatural anointing with biblical boldness, purity, integrity, humility, truth, justice, and compassion. Grady longs for every believer to find or recover a genuine experience with the Holy Spirit.
Among the topics he addresses are:
* the genuine work of the Holy Spirit
* strategies for developing healthy leaders
* how to set up proper accountability structures
* why so many churches and ministries have imploded in recent yearsWith extraordinary insight, a keen eye for discernment, and a desire to see the church purified and believers empowered, Grady gives a straightforward and ultimately affirming message that will expose the problems and ignite believers with God’s fire.
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Field Guide To U S Congregations (Expanded)
$28.00In 2001 the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) conducted the U.S. Congregational Life Survey. More than 1.2 million worshipers and 12,000 congregations across three continents were surveyed to provide a portrait of congregational life. The findings were published in the first edition of A Field Guide to U.S. Congregations.
With the completion of the 2008 survey comes an expanded edition of this invaluable reference with new findings; updated statistics, tables, and cartoons; a new chapter describing changes in congregational life; and chapter summaries focusing on the implications of the 2008 survey.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Ask A Missionary
$28.99If you are exploring doing something extraordinary for the glory of God among the nations, Ask A Missionary will give clarity and answers for a journey into missions. Because they have “been there”, over one hundred missionaries from around the world, including Elisabeth Elliot, George Verwer, Phyllis Kilbourn, and Bill Stearns, share their insightful wisdom and practical advice on everything from making the decision to go, to stepping into a new life once on the field, and everything in between.
The treasures amassed in this book will guide you toward serving in the most wonderful, challenging, God glorifying, eternity-impacting endeavor in the world: missions.
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Repo : The Church In Foreclosure
$19.36Repo is a wake-up call to pastors with a growing sense of isolation and irrelevance; silently maintaining their sanctuaries, trapped in the industry of church, they simply wait retirement or hope for Christ’s return. The USA is gripped by a recession unlike any since the ’30s, its financial and political institutions guilty of enabling unsustainable debt while its pulpits proclaim prosperity. Could we be living in the era referenced in Revelation 5:5-14, the Lamb soon to “repo” His church?
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Silent Church
$20.61Mr. Brock’s latest release, his ninth Christian book, is currently receiving high praise from the Christian community as a book that spells out the role of the church in the moral decay of our government and our society today. In 1954, a little-known law was pushed through Congress by Lyndon B. Johnson which has impacted the freedom of all Christians by silencing our churches. This book discusses the history of how this law came to be, where we are today, and what the future holds.
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Bible In Action
$24.98The Bible In Action is a collection of 59 Bible dramas for church, Christian school, and home. It uses the dialogue in the Bible (KJV updated), presents the narrative as dialogue, and fills in the gaps with what might have happened in between the lines. These dramas, which provide literature weekly for more than a year, are arranged in historical order with Scripture reference and are available at a fraction of the cost of most literature for a quarter. They are simply the Bible in dialogue.
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Change The World
$21.99Clearly, something is not working. Despite the church’s place of prominence in American culture and the ubiquity of the church in every American town, misconceptions about the faith of Jesus Christ run rampant today. Christians are known more for exclusivity than for love, more for pot lucks than for solving world hunger.
It’s time for churches to get over the cruise-ship mentality of being a program-provider, and reconnect with the true message and mission of Jesus: to bring good news to the poor, release to the captives, and freedom to the oppressed. The church is called to be a mission outpost, living out Christ’s ideals in today’s world.
Slaughter presents seven choices pastors must make as they consider the future of their congregations. Will you focus on building disciples or tallying decisions? Will you multiply your impact or expand your facilities? Will you step out in courage or comply with the status quo? Your answers to these and other questions determine how your church will focus its time, its energy, and its budget to work for real change in a hurting world.
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Church 3.0 : Upgrades For The Future Of The Church
$28.00An expert practitioner answers to questions about the burgeoning organic church movement
Neil Cole’s best-selling book Organic Church described the fastest growing segment of contemporary Christianity-the so-called organic church. Now in this next-step book, he answers questions about how to deal with theological and organizational issues that come up. He talks about issues such has what to do with finances, children, heresy, leader training, and rituals and ordinances. Without the top-down structure of a denomination, even people who are proponents of this small, house-church model worry that they are not doing it right.
*Offers an important resource for anyone involved with or thinking of starting an organic or house church
*Addresses practical issues of theology, rituals, doctrinal heresy, how to handle children, finances, and other important questions
*Written by an acknowledged expert who is now and has been for over twenty years an organic church planter and practitioner
*A new Leadership Network title and follow-up to Organic Church
Church 3.0 offers solid information about organic churches based on Cole’s extensive experience in starting, nurturing, and mentoring in the organic church movement.
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Living Holiness : Stanley Hauerwas And The Church
$35.00Stanley Hauerwas, was declared by “”Time Magazine”” in 2001 to be ‘America’s best theologian’. This book explores his work on the Church as a community living holiness. It offers an accessible introduction to Hauerwas’ understanding of the ethics, character, narrative, practices and politics of the Church in late modern societies. Hauerwas has lots of imaginative, challenging and creative things to say. This book seeks to make them more available to the wider Church and its clergy at ground level. Section I introduces Hauerwas’ work on the Church. It critically explores the importance he places on the church, its story and its politics as witness to the reign of God in the world. Section II demonstrates how Hauerwas’ thinking can illuminate congregational life, discipleship, Scripture, mission, theology and witness in fresh and encouraging ways.
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Thriving Through Ministry Conflict
$19.99There’s no need to fear the conflicts that inevitably arise in every church. Pastors and church leaders can learn how to make resistance their ally. Through colorful storytelling, response activities, and discussion questions, this book shares insights that can help leaders trade unfruitful responses to conflict for a positive approach that promotes growth and unity in their church.
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Unleashing The Word
$22.99This book-and-DVD collaboration from a gifted Bible narrator and an award-winning writer shows how churches can train their laypeople to “unleash the Word of God” while reading the Scriptures, whether during worship, in small groups, or at home. Straightforward and culturally relevant, it helps people proclaim the Bible in a way that communicates its life-changing power!
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Prayer Counselor : How To Have An Effective Altar Call
$15.61Order is more important than intentions. Even in the face of the greatest intentions, chaos will impede any progress. The Prayer Counselor is essential in providing appropriate guidance to God’s people towards restoration at his altars. I am a Surgeon by trade. The operating suite must be orchestrated appropriately for the patient to have an expected outcome. The patients have already demonstrated submission by allowing themselves to be wheeled into the operating room. After submission there must be precise execution by all members of the operating team. The altar visitors have submitted themselves to an even greater degree by their public display of approaching the altar. As a surgeon, I accept the lead role in the surgical suite, but everyone involved in the care of the patient must be in the right place at the right time for the patient to have the expected outcome. While at the altar, the leader of the altar call must be allowed to flow in the perfect will of God without being distracted by tasks that should be delegated to others. The Prayer Counselor will assist the Men and Women of God in providing the appropriate atmosphere that will bring God’s people into his perfect will.
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Uncovering Church Cliques And Finding Faithful Friends
$19.36Was Jesus cliquish? If not, why did He spend so much time with Peter, James, and John? How can you identify cliques in the church and distinguish between clique members and faithful friends? For too long, the subject of cliques has been overlooked and brushed aside in the body of Christ. In Uncovering Church Cliques and Finding Faithful Friends, Kevin Sturdivant takes a comprehensive look at the problem of cliques, gives you inspired information on how to overcome the diabolical influence cliques can have, and explains the personalities you should look for in finding friends who live up to Biblical standards. You can be free from the pressures of cliques and find faithful friends! This book will show you how.
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Growing The Church In The Power Of The Holy Spirit
$24.99This biblically grounded book asserts that many leaders overlook the necessary precondition of discerning and cooperating with the empowering will of the Holy Spirit before putting their programs and activities into action. It is a highly practical guide for nurturing relations between believers and the Spirit, in order to better advance the Kingdom of God.
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Managing Polarities In Congregations
$70.00Congregations often find themselves in power struggles over two opposing views. People on both sides believe strongly that they are right. They also assume that if they are right, their opposition must be wrong-classic “either/or” thinking. A polarity is a pair of truths that need each other over time. When an argument is about two poles of a polarity, both sides are right and need each other to experience the whole truth.
This phenomenon has been recognized and written about for centuries in philosophy and religion. It is at the heart of Taoism, where we find the familiar polarity of yin and yang energy. In the past fifty years, business leaders have come to appreciate the phenomenon, often called dilemma or paradox. No matter what it is called, the research is clear: leaders and organizations that manage polarities well outperform those who don’t.
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Introducing The Missional Church (Reprinted)
$27.50Many pastors and church leaders have heard the term “missional” but have only a vague idea of what it means, let alone why it might be important to them. But what does it actually mean? What does a missional church look like and how does it function? Two leading voices in the missional movement here provide an accessible introduction, showing readers how the movement developed, why it’s important, and how churches can become more missional.
Introducing the Missional Church demonstrates that ours is a post-Christian culture, making it necessary for church leaders to think like missionaries right here at home. Focusing on a process that allows a church to discern its unique way of being missional, it guides readers on a journey that will lead them to implement a new set of missional practices in their churches. The authors demonstrate that living missionally is about discerning and joining God’s work in the world in order to be a witness to God’s kingdom on earth.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Teologa De La Salsa – (Spanish)
$14.99Lucas Park Books
La Teologia de la Salsa: Rumba, postmodernidad & evangelio contiene doce ensayos que resenan y critican canciones tradicionales de “Salsa,” la musica tropical afro-caribena. Cada ensayo combina critica social, analisis biblico y reflexion teologica, entrelazados con la biografia del autor. El libro termina con una reflexion sobre el lugar de la musica popular en la reflexion teologica. Este libro, prologado por el cantante Tony Vega, es un testimonio de fe que busca hablar al corazon de todos los “salseros.”La Teologia de la Salsa: Rumba, postmodernidad & evangelio contains twelve essays that review and critique standard songs of the genre called “Salsa,” which is tropical Afrocuban music. Each essay blends social commentary, biblical analysis and theological reflection, weaved with the author’s biography. The conclusion of the book is a theological reflection about the place of popular music in theological reflection. This book, which prologue was written by the renowned Salsa singer Tony Vega, is a testimony of faith that intends to speak to the heart of all “salseros.””
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Vision Upon Vision
$35.00This magisterial book examines the changing nature of Christian worship from the earliest years of the New Testament to the liquid modern world. Discounting any notion of an idealized vision of past which each generation seeks to recreate, this groundbreaking book shows that the nature of worship has always involved compromise with public life and has borrowed from the drama of the theatre. He reveals how worship evolved and changed through the great east-west divide, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment and the 19th century reaction to it. aaAs in his previous, highly praised book, George Guiver’s expertise is a forensic detective, tracing in the default practices and customs of ordinary people going about their prayer in church and alone, a vast body of liturgical DNA. He provides us with tools with which to discover the past and examine a range of assumptions and presuppositions about worship today.
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Common Roots : The Original Call To An Ancient Future Faith
$24.99Robert Webber’s legacy testifies to the vitality evangelicals experience when insights of the early church inform community life and ministry. His original expression of this theme, presented here with a foreword by David Neff (director of the Robert E. Webber Center for an Ancient-Evangelical Future), promises to stimulate new and ongoing conversations about ancient-future faith.
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Many Parts One Body
$38.60Property issues will be major topic of debate at 2009 Episcopal General Convention
Clear, concise information on the legal structure and governance of the Episcopal Church
Debunks misinformation about Episcopal governance promulgated on conservative blogs and publications
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Ignite : How To Spark Immediate Growth In Your Church (Reprinted)
$25.00Ignite is the ultimate how-to book for church leaders who want to reach more people for Jesus Christ. Pastor and founder of Church Leader Insights, Nelson Searcy, will provide practical, inventive guidelines for bringing first-time guests through the doors.
This book sets forth a step-by-step, biblically grounded, proven plan for creating immediate church growth by utilizing a “Big Day” to mobilize the church for evangelism. This user-friendly guide will show church leaders what they need to do to reach the unchurched in their communities and break through the debilitating growth barriers that are holding them back.
Through the inspiration of testimonies and stories, combined with the down-to-earth, applicable teaching that Searcy readers have come to expect and appreciate, Ignite will give church leaders the tools they desperately need to reach and keep modern-minded, unchurched people to create and sustain growth momentum.
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Multi Site Church Roadtrip
$22.99The multi-site church movement is reshaping the way we do church. But how does it actually work? And is it right for your church? Enjoy a guided tour of multi-site churches across America and see for yourself how churches are growing and reaching their communities. This companion to The Multi-Site Church Revolution gives you on-site pictures of the new and creative ways churches are expanding their impact through multiple locations.
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Cinco Practicas De Congregacio – (Spanish)
$20.99People are searching for a church shaped and sustained by Radical Hospitality, Passionate Worship, Intentional Faith Development, Risk-Taking Mission and Service, and Extravagant Generosity. These fundamental practices, now available in Spanish, are critical to the success of congregations. Their presence and strength demonstrate congregational health, vitality, and fruitfulness. By repeating and improving these practices, churches fulfill their mission to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world.
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Apostolic Congregation : Church Growth Reconceived For A New Generation
$18.99A church in the heart of Manhattan and a congregation among the Inuit people of Northern Canada would seem to have little in common with one another. Yet in one way they are surprisingly similar: They are both apostolic congregations, churches whose every program exists for the purpose of presenting the gospel to non-Christians, and making disciples of Jesus Christ.
What is the secret of churches like these; how have they learned to make evangelism central to everything they do? In studying apostolic congregations around the world, George G. Hunter III has discovered a set of perspectives and practices that they all share. With the passion and insight for which he is so well known, Hunter demonstrates how your congregation can learn to focus on the one thing that most matters: bringing people into a saving relationship with Jesus Christ.
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Deep Church : A Third Way Beyond Emerging And Traditional
$17.99If you feel caught between the traditional church and the emerging church, Jim Belcher’s Deep Church forges a third way. He explores and evaluates the proposals of emerging church leaders and paints a picture of what an alternate, deep church looks like–a missional church committed to both tradition and culture, valuing innovation in worship, arts and community but also creeds and confessions.
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Jesus Me Convence Pero No La I – (Spanish)
$16.99An overview of the six most common objections emerging generations have with church and Christianity along with the biblical answers to these objections and examples of how churches are facing this challenge.
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Taking Your Church To The Next Level (Reprinted)
$25.88All local churches experience a predictable life cycle of growth and decline. But if a church is on a downward trend, how can it turn around? Taking Your Church to the Next Level explains the impact of age and size on churches and outlines the improvements that must be made at each point for a church to remain fruitful and faithful to its mission. McIntosh deftly describes the cycles of fruitfulness and the importance of continual improvement to diminish destructive forces that keep a congregation from its mission. Church leaders, pastors, and all who care about the church and desire to see it experience biblical growth will benefit from the sage wisdom offered in these pages.
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Church Hurts Can Make You Bitter
$15.61My prayer is that every hurt you have encountered throughout your life will be released from you as you go through the various chapters. Like a person who sets a goal to lose weight, you will set a goal in your mind and heart today, and you will begin working hard to lose hurts that have been keeping you from your destiny and the land of promise. Many of you think because you are walking in the newness of life everyone else is traveling the same road. The mind you now have is the mind of Christ, and your sole purpose is to please God. You do not expect to deal with drama in the church. You expect to see a noticeable difference between the unsaved and those who profess salvation. The dreadful cycle of hurt has damaged, wounded, and killed many people in the church. No matter how hard you try to camouflage the pain inside, it is not hidden. You can cover bruises, scars, and cuts, but hurt to the heart shows in various forms that are noticeable.
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How To Multiply Your Church
$21.00Churches in North America are bigger than ever, but their slow rate of growth cannot keep up with population increases. Existing churches simply cannot add enough new believers! The good news is that by multiplying–steadily and strategically planting new churches that, in turn, plant new churches–the global Church creates more of what Ralph Moore calls harvest points. In How to Multiply Your Church, Pastor Moore shows church leaders and pastors why multiplication is the key to growing God’s global kingdom in their communities, and he offers them proven methods for implementing multiplication in their existing churches. Countless leaders have found an indispensable resource in starting a new church because of Pastor Moore’s vast firsthand experience and practical wisdom. How to Multiply Your Church is the next leap forward for those who long to see God’s kingdom increase.
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Team Jesus : Planting Churches The Master’s Way
$18.73Church planting is best taught by church planters and Paul Kim is one of the best. Over the last thirty years, he has led the churches of which he has been pastor to start twenty-five churches in the United States, Korea, Japan, Central Asia, and East Asia. Of the twenty-five, twenty-two are still alive and well, an almost unheard of survival rate in church planting annuals. Kim attributes this success to planting churches the “Jesus way,” using teams composed of “homegrown workers” who are trained and mentored by the mother church to plant daughter churches. While his primary focus has been on multicultural church planting, the principles Kim has learned both from his experience and from his study of how the Master began the first church are applicable in any church planting endeavor. For Kim, church planting is not theory but a divine mandate. This book reveals his heart and clearly spells out the Master’s plan for church planting.
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Discovering Church Planting
$40.99In Discovering Church Planting, J. D. Payne explores the biblical, historical and missiological principles of global church planting as well as unfolding practical strategies for confronting contemporary challenges to our vital task in reaching a lost world.
This comprehensive introduction to church planting shows the reader how to apply effective, international church planting practices to specific contexts. J. D. speaks from personal experience, research and training and focuses on crucial issues every planter should consider. His well researched and easy to understand concepts are crucial for anyone who takes seriously the call of Scripture to Declare His glory among the nations and His marvelous deeds to all peoples.
CONTENTS
Section I: Discovering Biblical and Theological Foundations
Section II: Discovering Missiological Principles
Section III: Discovering Historical Paradigms
Section IV: Discovering Contemporary IssuesAdd to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Conflict Management And Resolution For Churches – (Other Language)
$15.99Building mature congregations through relationship development.
This book provides the biblical view of the conflict in general and the biblical ways of conflict managements and resolution.
“To build a mature community through relationship development”
Chapter 1. Basic Understanding of the Relationship Development
*Even God experiences conflicts? Biblical understanding of conflict
*God’s way of relationship development – From conflict to maturityChapter 2. Structure of Conflict and Reconciliation
*Structure of Conflict 1 – Causes, Facilitators, and Symptoms
*Structure of Conflict 2 – Symptoms of each stage of conflict development
*Structure of Reconciliation 1 – Causes, Facilitators, and Symptoms
*Structure of Reconciliation 2 – Human Needs and Degrees of SatisfactionChapter 3. Structure of Relationship and Dialogue
*Structure of Relationship and Dialogue
*Structure of the Word of God – Story of the Salvation of HumansChapter 4. Relationship Development and Understanding of Human Emotion
*How to detach you feeling from facts
*What should I do when I am angry? Understanding of Anger and Anger Management
*Emotional Flow of a healthy communityChapter 5. Steps of Relationship Development
*Overlook, Denial, and Direct Conversation
*Mediation
*Emotional Detachment
*Church Law
*ReconciliationChapter 6. Forgiveness
*God’s Forgiveness and Human Forgiveness
*Steps for the Forgiveness
*Apology – Language of Apology
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How To Lead A Church To Reach People And Grow
$24.36This book presents a unique approach to church growth. It is written mainly to help churches that are declining, but will help all churches. The underlying premise is that churches do not grow and reach new people because they do not know how, or because they are so poorly structured and organized that they spend most of their time and efforts in conflict. This disrupts the fellowship and leaves very little time and energy for reaching new people. The subtitle could be, “Fifteen Essential Steps To Growth”- Basic growth and administrative principles. The combining of these areas makes this a unique book. Young has brought together these basic elements, from over 40 years of experience. . The book is a practical guide for a local church to follow to function efficiently and effectively, and reach people for Christ. When the steps are followed, and in the proper order, the church can pretty well be assured of growth and effective ministry.
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Transitional Ministry : A Time Of Opportunity
$33.26Multi-denominational look at transitional ministry
Professional resource for local and national judicatory leaders, local congregational leaders, clergy
Transition is the word we use to describe the time following significant change. In congregations, that change might be the departure of the pastor, a catastrophe such as Hurrican Katrina or 9/11, or simply the changes caused by growth. Transition calls for clergy with special training to respond to the needs generated by the special time. “Task, training, and time limit” are the hallmarks of transitional ministry. Trained intentional interim clergy must have the skill and experience to lead congregations during transition.
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Reclaiming Christianity (Reprinted)
$14.99Does the church use words that have lost their meaning? Are there Christian words and phrases that have lost their power to convict the human spirit and bring transformation to the world? One of the twentieth century’s most renowned prophetic thinkers, A. W. Tozer, saw a dangerous trend gaining momentum even before his death–a trend that has become commonplace now in the twenty-first century. In this never-before-published book, Tozer sounds his alarm for the modern church: We must stop parroting words carelessly and instead allow the meaning that these words convey to empower, shape, and direct the work of the church. Yet Reclaiming Christianity is not just a warning; it is a spiritual guidebook for reconnecting to the deepest meaning of Christianity’s sacred messages.
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Deacon Relationships Through The Body Of Christ
$21.23Be the leader God intended you to be! Churches often elect deacons and fail to give them the training they need to accomplish their task, assuming that if one is qualified to become a deacon, he doesn’t need training. This assumption has proven injurious both to the individual deacon and to the body of Christ. Dr. Ledbetter is one of the most qualified leaders in the Southern Baptist Convention to assist deacons in becoming the leader God intended them to be. As a pastor, he worked with deacons in four growing churches. Since entering evangelism in January 1984, he has conducted several hundred deacon retreats in both small and large churches across America, in addition to conducting revivals. To be an effective leader, a deacon must have a right relationship with Christ, his family, his church, his pastor, and with himself. This book discusses each of these relationships and provides spiritual insights that will help not only deacons, but every Christian leader to become all God intended them to be.
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Next Evangelicalism : Freeing The Church From Western Cultural Captivity
$24.99Table Of Contents
Introduction
Part I: The Western, White Cultural Captivity Of The Church
1: Individualism: The Heartbeat Of Western, White Cultural Captivity
2: Consumerism And Materialism: The Soul Of Western, White Cultural Captivity
3: Racism: The Residue Of Western, White Cultural CaptivityPart II: The Pervasiveness Of The White Captivity Of The Church
4: The Church Growth Movement And Megachurches
5: The Emergent Church?s Captivity To Western, White Culture
6: The Cultural Imperialism Of The White Captivity Of The ChurchPart III: Freedom From The White Captivity Of The Church
7: Suffering And Celebration: Learning From The African American And Native American Communities
8: Holistic Evangelism: Learning From The Immigrant Church
9: A Multicultural Worldview: Learning From The Second GenerationConclusion
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Soong-Chan Rah calls the North American church to escape its Western cultural captivity and to embody a next evangelicalism that is diverse and multiethnic. This prophetic minority report casts a vision for a dynamic evangelicalism that fully embodies the cultural realities of the twenty-first century.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Hybrid Church In The City
$45.00There has been a growing interest in the rapidly evolving nature of cities in the past 10-15 years, but especially in the last 5 years, and the profound impact this is having upon our understanding of community, belonging and church. This book shows that theology in an urban context has developed way beyond the inner-city nostaligia. It is a challenging, critical and constructive study of the role of the church in cities.
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Key To Your Churchs Vision
$18.73John Maxwell makes the statement that everything rises and falls on leadership. If that statement is true, doesn’t it make sense to focus our prayers on the critical issue that is the true catalyst for achieving God-purposed goals in our churches across the nation and world? In The Key to Your Church’s Vision: The Practical Guide to Praying For Your Pastor, Pastor Cameron King unlocks Psalm 45 as the scriptural prayer guide that will direct every praying parishioner into effective prayers for their shepherd. Every chapter will relate to issues that are close to your pastor’s heart. When God answers your prayers for your pastor, God’s vision for your congregation will begin to be unlocked as your pastor enters into a season of unprecedented accomplishment. Every chapter is jam-packed with scriptural truth that, if prayed, will preserve your pastor and his family while accelerating the work of God in your congregation. This is a MUST READ FOR PEOPLE WHO DESIRE TO SEE THE WILL OF GOD FULLFILLED IN THEIR CONGREGATION!
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Biblical Christianity : From Man Centered To A Christ Centered Church
$21.23The need to redefine Christianity and the purpose of the church has continued to attract the attention of concerned Christian preachers and authors. This is more so as the central message of the gospel as the power of God for the transformation of a believer’s life has given way to humanistic philosophy and an emphasis on this worldly. In this book, Dr. Oshin takes a critical look at the church, highlighting what he perceives as wrong teachings in the church. The book is a call to believers to rediscover the gospel of Jesus Christ, and His kingdom principles. It is a call for paradigm shift – a shift from emphasis on this worldly to biblical Christianity.
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Sin That Will Keep Many Church Members Out Of Heaven
$31.23“The Sin That Will Keep Many Church Members Out of Heaven” gives some often overlooked insights into the sin Jesus said in Matthew at the end of the Sermon on the Mount will keep many praying church members and great church workers out of heaven. This sin is the core sin for which Jesus died and is very often overlooked or lightly regarded as just another sin or seen simply as gross sin. This sin drives every other sin that can be found in man. It is the mother and father of all sins and often, according to Jesus, remains in the lives of many who have united with the church and are very active in the works and ministries of the church. This sin is very subtle and is the most devastating sin of all because it can be very easily overlooked.
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Turning The Ship
$29.98“….Turning the Ship is not for the faint of heart….” Dr. Voddie Baucham Elder, Grace Family Baptist Church, Houston, Texas “The Church today desperately needs prophets to challenge us on how we “do” church. Dustin Guidry is certainly a prophet! His prophetic voice will be fully understood when reading Turning the Ship. While you may not always agree with him, he will challenge the way we “do” church and how we raise our children along with living our lives as believers. Hold on as you read because you may find you don’t have a rudder that is directing your own course as you journey through life.” Jay McSwain PLACE Ministries, Atlanta, Georgia “It has been a long time since I have been excited about a book that I have read, other than the Bible. Dustin Guidry has excellent insight into many of the problems facing today’s Christian body of believers. He also has a simple answer for these problems: God’s Word. I agree with Dustin, that our families, and our churches must return to the sufficiency of scripture in all aspects of our lives.” Dr. Travis Plumlee Family Ark Ministries, Conway, Arkansas
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Turning The Ship
$19.36“….Turning the Ship is not for the faint of heart….” Dr. Voddie Baucham Elder, Grace Family Baptist Church, Houston, Texas “The Church today desperately needs prophets to challenge us on how we “do” church. Dustin Guidry is certainly a prophet! His prophetic voice will be fully understood when reading Turning the Ship. While you may not always agree with him, he will challenge the way we “do” church and how we raise our children along with living our lives as believers. Hold on as you read because you may find you don’t have a rudder that is directing your own course as you journey through life.” Jay McSwain PLACE Ministries, Atlanta, Georgia “It has been a long time since I have been excited about a book that I have read, other than the Bible. Dustin Guidry has excellent insight into many of the problems facing today’s Christian body of believers. He also has a simple answer for these problems: God’s Word. I agree with Dustin, that our families, and our churches must return to the sufficiency of scripture in all aspects of our lives.” Dr. Travis Plumlee Family Ark Ministries, Conway, Arkansas
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Sin That Will Keep Many Church Members Out Of Heaven
$19.98“The Sin That Will Keep Many Church Members Out of Heaven” gives some often overlooked insights into the sin Jesus said in Matthew at the end of the Sermon on the Mount will keep many praying church members and great church workers out of heaven. This sin is the core sin for which Jesus died and is very often overlooked or lightly regarded as just another sin or seen simply as gross sin. This sin drives every other sin that can be found in man. It is the mother and father of all sins and often, according to Jesus, remains in the lives of many who have united with the church and are very active in the works and ministries of the church. This sin is very subtle and is the most devastating sin of all because it can be very easily overlooked.
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Servolution : Starting A Church Revolution Through Serving
$22.99The challenging and inspiring account of how an alive church reaches out to the hurting by creating what they call a “servolution”. Includes ideas and strategies so that any church can touch lives in their community, and start a “servolution” that influences the world for Christ.
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Church Go To Hell Please
$24.98The powerful soul-winner and founder of the Salvation Army, William Booth, was once asked, “Do you think you have the best training program to teach people how to witness for Jesus Christ and win souls to Jesus?” William Booth replied, “No, I don’t think my methods are the best methods. I think the best method of giving people a burden for lost souls would be to take them to the devil’s hell and allow them to experience what it is to be lost in hell, separated from God for an eternity in the fire that could never be quenched. Then I believe men would truly have a burden and know what it is to be soul-winners because they would see what it is to be lost.” The purpose of this book is to give people that experience. Time is getting short for the church to do what the Lord has called us to do. It’s time for the Church to realize that Hell is real and eternal for those we do not reach. It’s time the church quit playing games. Though The Church that has been purchased by the blood of Christ can never experience Hell in its fullness, it is imperative that the church be able to see and feel the eternalness of the torments of Hell. That we wake up, “Be Revived”, and get busy about the Father’s work. Luke sixteen tells us of activities that are now taking place in Hell, activities that need to be taking place in our churches. Please, allow your church and yourself to “Go To Hell” so that those who the Lord and you love will never have to go to Hell. The Trape at Our Feet
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When Do I Cry Wolf
$16.86Many churches have found themselves on the brink of a great breakthrough for God only to have everything torn apart and victory snatched away. Doubts and questions may plague church leaders’ minds concerning what happened to their church. The answer may be that the church has been ravaged by a wolf. Just what is a wolf in the church? How can a wolf in sheep’s clothing be identified? How is a leader to deal with a wolf? Tackling these questions in a straightforward manner, When Do I Cry Wolf? is a book designed to uncover the deception and work of the enemy within the church. It gives valuable tools and insights for dealing with this problem without creating an air of paranoia and confusion. Sound scriptural advice and encouragement give much needed answers that will aid those called to guard God’s “sheep.”
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Book To Change Your Life
$19.98Dr. Sandidge has written a very comprehensive book on leadership. Every pastor and church leader can find many tidbits of information that will improve their leadership skills. This book will provide help in building a ministry team approach. There are many helpful ideas for the church leader to develop other leaders for the church, and especially Bible teachers. A helpful and insightful book.
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Ripe Fields : Promise And Challange Of Latino Ministry
$31.93Timed to be launched at 2009 General Convention, Juan Oliver definitive look at the history and potential future of Latino ministry in the Episcopal Church comes at an opportune time. With Latino ministries growing around the country in all traditions, and with increasing resource and programmatic offerings being allocated to serve those communities, this highly descriptive handbook profiles the culture, faith, and importance of this emerging minority.
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Truth Be Told
$20.61It is time for the church to be established in what the apostle Peter called “present truth”. Only then can the church bring forth the faithful and true witness that will turn the world toward Christ. Open the pages of this book and be ready for a spiritual explosion that will transform your heart and mind.
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Emotions : The Controlling Factor In The Church
$21.86Emotions are the controlling factor in our society today. Have you ever wondered where your emotions come from? Are you able to recognize when your emotions are controlling you? Do you wonder why they have such a great impact on your daily decision-making? So many of the influences affecting us have targeted our emotions. If you want to be like Jesus, this practical, encouraging and challenging biblical insight will help you to use your emotions the way Jesus Christ used His. Whether it is a poor self image, medicating one’s pain, fighting for your rights or dealing with people who justify their actions and manipulate others, God can help you discern how to live your life in control of your emotions. Either you control your emotions or your emotions will control you.
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Planting A Family Integrated Church
$19.98Planting a Family-Integrated Church pickes up where J. Mark Fox’s first book, Family-Integrated Church left off, and it gives you a workbook for change. Included is everything from: finding others with the same vision, choosing a name and a location, and keeping the Great Commission. May God get the glory as He builds His church!
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Experience The Presence Of God
$24.98Whatever happened to the presence of God in the American church? The church has settled for the “status-quo” rather than the “supernatural.” God’s Church is dealing with considerable spiritual lethargy and superciliousness. Man has been doing church his way long enough, and now it is time that the Holy Spirit be the administrator and director of His church. God has the perfect plan for His house. The author presents an urgent and no-compromise appeal for a return to the manifested presence of God. The author also gives the diagnosis and prescriptive treatment for the spiritual decline of the church. This book introduces Biblical principles and not man’s strategies that will cause a full restoration to the presence and glory of God. This book is for those that are hungry and thirsty for more of God’s presence.
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Experience The Presence Of God
$37.48Whatever happened to the presence of God in the American church? The church has settled for the “status-quo” rather than the “supernatural.” God’s Church is dealing with considerable spiritual lethargy and superciliousness. Man has been doing church his way long enough, and now it is time that the Holy Spirit be the administrator and director of His church. God has the perfect plan for His house. The author presents an urgent and no-compromise appeal for a return to the manifested presence of God. The author also gives the diagnosis and prescriptive treatment for the spiritual decline of the church. This book introduces Biblical principles and not man’s strategies that will cause a full restoration to the presence and glory of God. This book is for those that are hungry and thirsty for more of God’s presence.
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Primer On Christian Worship
$23.99SKU (ISBN): 9780802860385ISBN10: 0802860389William DyrnessBinding: Trade PaperPublished: February 2009Calvin Institute Of Christian Worship Liturgical SPublisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Print On Demand Product
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Does Your Church Have A Prayer Leaders Guide (Teacher’s Guide)
$16.00Congregations seeking revitalization can take heart. Jesus has already prayed for their unity so that they may share his love with the world! The Does Your Church Have a Prayer? Participant’s Guide consists of a six week plan of Bible studies that, along with sermons and worship, will help generate congregation feedback critical to establishing a twenty-four month action plan for the congregation. Each week’s study offers a prayer to open the time together, questions to encourage scriptural reflection, and questions to facilitate thought and input as the congregation makes intentional decisions regarding its mission and ministry.
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Deliberate Simplicity : How The Church Does More By Doing Less
$18.99Learn how a “less is more” approach to church can equip believers for eternal influence. Church innovator Dave Browning unpacks the six elements of a new equation for church development. These concepts-minimality, intentionality, reality, multility, velocity, and scalability-provide a realistic plan for streamlining church while maximizing impact.
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Leadership Jump : Building Partnerships Between Existing And Emerging Chris
$27.99Leadership is changing. Not only are established leaders passing the baton to up-and-coming leaders, the very nature of leadership is being transformed. Veteran leader and cultural observer Jimmy Long explains how leadership positions and roles have changed in light of societal shifts.
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Monkey And The Fish
$18.99The Monkey and the Fish decodes profound shifts and events taking place in the world today due to globalism, multiculturalism and technology, and introduces an original approach to ministry, church, and leadership known as The Third Culture. The book title refers to an Eastern parable that will challenge you to reexamine fundamental assumptions of the evangelical movement, including erroneous interpretations that have made the church increasingly irrelevant in North America and the global village.
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Missional Renaissance : Changing The Scorecard For The Church
$28.00Reggie McNeal’s bestseller The Present Future is the definitive work on the “missional movement,” i.e., the widespread movement among Protestant churches to be less inwardly focused and more oriented toward the culture and community around them. In that book he asked the tough questions that churches needed to entertain to begin to think about who they are and what they are doing; in Missional Renaissance, he shows them the three significant shifts in their thinking and behavior that they need to make that will allow leaders to chart a course toward being missional: (1) from an internal to an external focus, ending the church as exclusive social club model; (2) from running programs and ministries to developing people as its core activity; and (3) from professional leadership to leadership that is shared by everyone in the community. With in-depth discussions of the “what” and the “how” of transitioning to being a missional church, readers will be equipped to move into what McNeal sees as the most viable future for Christianity. For all those thousands of churches who are asking about what to do next after reading The Present Future, Missional Renaissance will provide the answer.
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Arte De La Evangelizacion – (Spanish)
$13.99Evangelism should be adjusted to the life of the local church. This implies integral discipleship. It is not just about winning souls for Christ but also to start a process of discipleship that leads the new believer to the riches of the Christian faith.
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Church For Disciples Of Christ
$14.99Lucas Park Books
This volume, originally published in 1998, edited by Paul A. Crow, Jr. and James O. Duke, includes the report of the Commission on Theology of the Council on Christian Unity that seeks to answer the most basic and all-embracing question facing the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) today: “What do Disciples think it means to be church?” The beauty of “church” as experienced among the Disciples of Christ is that doing theology is not the domain solely of a “theology commission” but involves the whole church in all its expressions. That is why the reissue of this small volume becomes important to encourage all Disciples, clergy and laity alike, to wrestle with the basic questions raised in the Commission’s report.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Bleating Of The Sheep And Other Essays
$18.73Christians willing to look with honest eyes at challenges we face as believers in corporate church life today will find an advocate here. We are faithful people attending Bible-believing churches, yet there is a disconnect between wanting to please the Lord and achieving full stature in the body of Christ through the church. Excellent intentions fail to materialize into spiritual development. Our efforts sputter into lackluster Christian experiences, a far cry from the abundant life we were promised.
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Listening Gift : Learning To Hear Beyond The Words
$15.61We have a crisis brewing in our nation today. The crisis I am speaking about is the failure on our part to really listen and hear one another. It is plaguing marriages, affecting our children, as well as our friendships. This in turn affects God’s church. The Listening Gift is a book that is relevant for today. It is for those who desire better communication skills and richer relationships. This includes our relationship with our spouse, our children, our friends, co-workers, and most importantly, with our Heavenly Father.
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Jubilee Gospel : The Jubilee Spirit And The Church
$24.99This book challenges the church to ask whether or not the gospel as we commonly interpret it today really embodies the jubilee vision of the Bible. Imagine a group of forty adults living in a community, assisting each other to buy houses, sharing material wealth and releasing the surplus to help others as a practical outworking of the biblical principles of jubilee.
Kim Tan was part of this group and in The Jubilee Gospel seeks to unpack these principles of sacrificial generosity, stewardship and social holiness.
Starting with the OT principle of jubilee and tracing the themes through the Bible, we discover a way of living that reflects Gods justice and compassion and embraces kingdom politics and economics.
What may seem buried deep in the early parts of the OT is brought up to date as were confronted by Jesus teaching and principles of wealth distribution, cancellation of debt, hospitality and storehouses.
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Participation And Mediation
$35.99Pete Ward argues that to make sense of the contemporary nature of the Church we must understand the way that encounter with God is mediated by cultural expression. Through participation in expression the contemporary Church is both a lived-in ‘culture’ while it is also ‘in-dwelt’ by the Trinitarian God. He offers a theoretical approach to practical theology which will be of use to practitioners rather than merely to other practical theologians.
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Aqua Church 2.0 (Revised)
$14.99We live in a fast-paced, fluid world. A postmodern place where people are drifting, making mid-course corrections in every aspect of life, from careers, to relationships, to beliefs.
Church leaders must continually reshape their ministries to reach a society adrift. They must move from being adaptive to being proactive, remaining flexible while delivering an uncompromising message.
AquaChurch is a guide for developing responsive and relevant church leadership. Fusing biblical wisdom and modern-day insights, acclaimed author Leonard Sweet explores the essentials of leadership arts, including vision, creativity, and teamwork. Thus updated and revised edition will enable ministries to navigate today’s cultural currents, provide a beacon to their community, and connect with a postmodern world.
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Planting Churches That Reproduce
$19.93The goal of Planting Churches that Reproduce Starting a Network of Simple Churches is to simplify the church planting process in order to start a network of simple, reproducing churches. This book will give invaluable information to those contemplating church planting or in the process of planting a church. Comiskey has been gathering material for this book for the past ten years. He has also planted three churches in a wide variety of settings. Planting Churches that Reproduce is the fruit of his research and personal experience. Comiskey uses the latest North American church planting statistics, but also extends the illustrations to include worldwide church planting. In the first section, Comiskey lays out the Biblical basis for church planting, including the all important question what is the church? In order to understand how to plant a network of reproducing churches, its essential to know how the New Testament defines Christs church (and the New Testament definition is a simple one). Paul the apostle was the first centurys model church planter and arguably the most effective church planter the world has ever known. The book goes into detail about how Paul planted churches and the important lessons that we can apply twenty centuries later. The book then moves from the Biblical basis to the contemporary scene. Comiskey answers the question of how in todays complicated society we can plant churches that reproduce and even start a network of simple churches. The book shows statistically why church planting is absolutely essential to keep up with the population growth. Many statistics are noted to demonstrate the grave need for continual church planting today. Then Comiskey tackles the question of the modern day church planter. What makes a modern day church planter successful? What are the key characteristics that todays church planters need to successfully plant a church in the 21st century? Comiskey provides indepth information from recent studies about the character qualities necessary to plant a church. Comiskey provides helpful information on church planting barriers. These barriers come from the fieldboth from those who have planted churches andor those who are currently doing so. The book reveals what church planters would do differently if they could do it over again. This information will help future church planters avoid similar mistakes. The second section goes into detail about the three main church planting strategies the celebrat
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Sticky Church
$18.99The greatest challenge facing most churches today isn’t getting people through the front door-it’s keeping them from leaving through the back door. In his new book, Larry Osborne reveals what it takes to cultivate a “sticky” church and reveals the strategy of sermon-based small groups to retain members while leading your church into even deeper levels of discipleship.
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Naked Illusion : Gods End Time Church Is About To Explode On Planet Earth I
$18.73Naked Illusion Laying Bare The Truth This provocative and hard-hitting book strips bare some of the most alarming trends and ungodly thinking that have invaded the church today. The enemy has been allowed to run rampant. Far too many in the church are living a life which is not leading them to the portals of heaven as they suppose, but rather, has them rushing headlong into the bowels of hell. The days of ignorance have passed and the days of reformation are here. We have run out of excuses and we are running out of time. The finishing generation must arise NOW with the truth that will expose every illusion and crush the head of the serpent. The army is being assembled. Your name is being called. What will you do?
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Growing Up Christian
$19.11McGuffey’s Readers. Public school. Family prayers. In the 1800s, these were primary and successful strategies by which children learned to become Christians. Sunday school was developed to support what was already being done at home and in school. Today many churches still rely on the nineteenth-century model to encourage young people to become disciples of Christ. In Growing Up Christian, Dr. C. Ellis Nelson explores why these strategies are inadequate for the twenty-first century and offers practical, specific guidance for congregations who wish to nurture disciples of Christ more effectively. Part 1 describes the pattern of influences that form our images of God. Given the way culture and family influence the rising generation, Part 2 outlines a strategy for nurturing disciples that capitalizes on the persuasive power of the congregation in fellowship, worship, and instruction. A detailed discussion guide further assists congregations who wish to form a study group to assess and improve their Christian education.
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Unlearning Church
$20.99How many things does your church do just because that’s the way it’s always been done? Does your congregation value tradition over passion and stability over creativity? If so, it’s time to unLearn. Leading congregations into a dynamic and prophetic future requires unLearning what you thought you knew about the church, leadership, and life. Pastor Michael Slaughter casts a vision for innovative and authentic congregations, and for the kind of leadership that can bring congregations to greater vitality and impact in today’s postmodern culture. Readers will be challenged to gaze boldly beyond franchised church models to a dynamic embodiment of God’s unique vision for each leader and each congregation. UnLearning congregations embrace new media and cultural trends, value transformation over information, and create a safe space for the tough and unanswerable questions of life. These are churches that lovingly dare to shoulder spiritual and prophetic leadership in our rapidly changing culture, re-articulating God’s ancient purposes to create high-tech, high-touch environments in which people can become radical followers of Jesus Christ.
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Keeping Members In The Church
$16.86From his pen, the Reverend Dr. A. W. Dock has provided us with a comprehensive study of attrition, assimilation and the retention of new members within the church community. While this study was primarily confined to his own congregation, he has gathered data from pastors of other denominations and traditions in order to give creditability and expose the limits of his findings. This book will be helpful to both pastors and lay persons alike who are faced with the never-ending reality of attrition, assimilation and retention of new members. Reverend Dr. Clayton D. Furlow, Author A Theology of Preaching In the African America Context Philadelphia, PA Reverend Dr. Albert W. Dock has helped us to put the issues surrounding the retention of members on the front burner of ministry as we seek to slow down the “revolving door” syndrome. This book helps both ministers and church leaders understand how better to move new members into the mainstream of church life from membership to discipleship. Reverend Dr. J. Wendell Mapson, Pastor Monumental Baptist Church Philadelphia, PA Pastor Dock gives the reader strategies which were arrived at through careful gathering of data, and through meticulous evaluation and analysis of that data – so that the results presented to us are practical, believable, and doable. Reverend James T. Betts, Planter/Pastor Saint James Community Baptist Church Philadelphia, PA
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My Pew Things I Have Seen From It
$14.49‘My Pew: Things I Have Seen From It’ is Dave’s second cartoon collection and in it he reveals: the five worst places to sit in church, reasons to shut your eyes during a sermon, what the church can learn from the retail sector, clergy washing lines – what you can discover from them, sharing the peace – a handy mathematical formula, a tried and tested reality tv method for appointing a new vicar, a guide to deciding whether to go to church or watch the football. In addition, this publication is distinguished by including what may be the world’s only wordless book introduction.
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Unlocking Gods Freeing Truth About Women
$24.36The original language wording of the Bible is wonderfully liberating for women, and Dr. Rocco brings to light what many have not heard. This book explains strong evidence for women in ministry roles. It untangles difficult passages pertaining to church and home life. Topics include: Elders Marriage Deacons Usage of “Head” Governing Authorities Unexpected Feminine Language Masculine Language Prohibitions about Speaking/Teaching Dr. Rocco is an adjunct professor in Biblical languages at Evangel Theological Seminary and serves on a church ministry team. The author has read through the entire Bible over 50 times in various translations and languages. Doctor of Ministry Master of Divinity Biblical Studies Diploma
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Experiencing The Truth
$22.50Communicates the need of a vibrant, experiential, Reformed Christianity among African-American and all believers.
The authors lay out the biblical basis for choosing and attending a church and demonstrate how the historic Reformed expression has been the most biblically accurate and experientially consistent expression of Christianity.
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Is The Tithe A New Testament Requirement
$15.61Sometimes God uses a man in the wilderness to present the truth of His Word. A man, who is unlearned and possess no scholarly degrees or eloquent speech. Concerning John the Baptist, Jesus asked and answered, “What did you come into the wilderness to see? Someone dressed in expensive garments.” The following question is asked of you. For what intent are you purchasing a Christian book? Is it to only learn from and to be dazzled by a writer with grammatically perfect skills and academic achievements? If your answer is yes, then put this book back. I have neither such credentials nor achievements but I do have a hunger towards God and a love of the truth. If such stimulates your palate, you may find many of these teachings refreshing and inspired. This book will help devoted Bible believing Christians to determine if the Tithe is a New Testament requirement.
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Doors Of The Church Are Closed
$19.36Martin Luther and John Calvin challenged Roman Catholicism; John Wesley, George Whitefield, and Jonathan Edwards challenged spiritual lethargy; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. challenged America’s social injustice; and now Dr. Dana Carson is challenging the Christian Church! The Doors of the Church are Closed is one of the most relevant 21st century writings to the Church. Statistics suggest nearly 4,000 churches are closing with only 1,200 to 1,800 opening annually. Less than 20% of Americans attend church and 97% of churches didn’t win one convert last year! Yet, the Church has exchanged its mission of Kingdom expansion for popularity and wealth. The Doors of the Church are Closed! This book identifies the root causes of the contemporary Church’s failures and raises some monumental challenges to believers. This book is a must read for the Body of Christ and those who desire to fulfill the will of God in their lives.
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Here To There
$29.98Did you know that some 80% of all church growth is just people moving from one church to another? People are going to change churches but they need to leave for the right reasons in the right way. Discover Ten Good Reasons to leave and avoid Ten Poor Reasons to leave. Discover how to be sure that you leave well for a good reason and have a deep walk at your new church. It is time for Christians to be the Church. It is time for believers to be happy together and apart. It is time for each believer to live well and learn well at home before they ever think about leaving. Don’t guess! Are you changing churches? Are you tired of people changing churches so much? How can you help your friends who are leaving? Here to There can help you understand and answer all of these questions.
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Here To There
$19.36Did you know that some 80% of all church growth is just people moving from one church to another? People are going to change churches but they need to leave for the right reasons in the right way. Discover Ten Good Reasons to leave and avoid Ten Poor Reasons to leave. Discover how to be sure that you leave well for a good reason and have a deep walk at your new church. It is time for Christians to be the Church. It is time for believers to be happy together and apart. It is time for each believer to live well and learn well at home before they ever think about leaving. Don’t guess! Are you changing churches? Are you tired of people changing churches so much? How can you help your friends who are leaving? Here to There can help you understand and answer all of these questions.
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Fidelity Of Betrayal
$21.00What if one of the core demands of a radical Christianity lay in a call for its betrayal, while the ultimate act of affirming God required the forsaking of God? And what if fidelity to the Judeo-Christian Scriptures demanded their renunciation? In short, what would it mean if the only way of finding real faith involved betraying it with a kiss?
Employing the insights of mysticism and deconstructive theory, The Fidelity of Betrayal delves into the subversive and revolutionary nature of a Christianity that dwells within the church while simultaneously undermining it.
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Transforming Worldviews : An Anthropological Understanding Of How People Ch (Rep
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Revered anthropologist Paul Hiebert argues that effective missional work must reach beyond behaviors and beliefs to transform worldviews.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Breakout
$29.98Breakout is the story of one church’s discovery of a Spirit empowered, New Testament model of church.
It is an honest, inspiring testimony to the truth that the Gospel of Jesus still maintains its life-changing power and God’s people still have it in them to change the world.
St Andrew’s Chorleywood has been at the forefront of church renewal for over three
decades. In the last five years, it has seen substantial growth as the congregation has moved from drawing people to one place, to a model in which well over a thousand believers have been sent out in mission-shaped communities of up to 50 members, meeting in school halls, community centres, coffee shops and other contexts.This daring move has resulted in the raising up of over a hundred new leaders, a massive release of spiritual gifts, great vision and creativity in outreach, and major growth through evangelism.
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Saints Have We Turned The Lighthouse Into A Hell House
$21.23This book was written to address the disappointments people are facing today caused by Ministry faculty members. It is designed to encourage obedience and hope in the midst of betrayal or shame experienced from hypocritical practices or personal attacks by such members. Therefore, this is a faith-building book!
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Tangible Kingdom : Creating Incarnational Community
$24.95Written for those who are trying to nurture authentic faith communities and for those who have struggled to retain their faith, The Tangible Kingdom offers theological answers and real-life stories that demonstrate how the best ancient church practices can re-emerge in todayOs culture, through any church of any size. In this remarkable book, Hugh Halter and Matt Smaytwo missional leaders and church plantersoutline an innovative model for creating thriving grass-roots faith communities.
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Vulnerable Communion : A Theology Of Disability And Hospitality
$31.25Introduction
1. Theology And Disability – Perils And Promises
2. Communal Bondaries: Dwelling Together And The Cult Of Normalcy
3. Able Bodies? The Illusion Of Control And Denial Of Vulnerability
4. Recovering Disability: Love And The Strange Power Of Weakness
5. Love Divine: God, Creation, And Vulnerability
6. Worthy Of Love? Humanity, Disability, And Redemption In Christ
7. Being Together: Love, Church, And HospitalityAdditional Info
As parents of an autistic son, Thomas Reynolds and his wife know what it’s like to be misunderstood by a church community. In Vulnerable Communion, Reynolds draws upon that personal experience and a diverse body of literature to empower churches and individuals to foster deeper hospitality toward persons with disabilities.Reynolds shows that the Christian story is one of strength coming from weakness, of wholeness emerging from brokenness, and of power in vulnerability. Wholeness, he argues, comes not from self-sufficiency, but from the “genuinely inclusive communion” that results from sharing our humanity–including our lack of ability–with one another. Then, and only then, will we truly live in hospitality with one another and with people with disabilities.
Reynolds offers valuable biblical, theological, and pastoral tools to understand and welcome those with disabilities. The book will be useful to academics, students, and pastors, as well as anyone touched by disability in some way. Readers will find penetrating examinations of the difficult questions of why God allows disability and what the church can learn from people with disabilities.
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Transforming Congregations
$35.93How can our patterns of congregational life and mission renew themselves and adjust to changing culture without selling out what Episcopalians stand for? How can local faith communities stay resilient and hopeful? What styles and practices of spirituality do most to enrich our mission?
These are some of the questions James Lemler poses in this book on mission for clergy and congregational discussion. As with evangelism, there is both good and bad news about Episcopalians and mission. Lemler also provides a variety of models for moving forward in mission and hope, to a more abundant future.
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Conversations With Scripture And With Each Other
$28.25Lay leaders play an essential role in congregational life, but can find themselves spending more of their time at church balancing budgets than deepening their own faith. Written from his years of experience as a priest and now as the bishop of Massachusetts, M. Thomas Shaw’s Conversations with Scripture and with Each Other is designed to encourage and strengthen the faith of lay leaders, while also helping them consider how scripture treats various issues in church life, such as stewardship, conflict, and evangelism. Perfect for individual reflection or group discussion, each chapter includes a close examination of biblical passages as well as practical questions for reflection on how the scriptures apply to collective church life and individual spiritual growth.
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Young Restless Reformed
$17.99From places like John Piper’s den, Al Mohler’s office, and Jonathan Edwards’s college, Christianity Today journalist Collin Hansen investigates what makes today’s young Calvinists tick. Church-growth strategies and charismatic worship have fueled the bulk of evangelical growth in America for decades. While baby boomers have flocked to churches that did not look or sound like church, it seems these churches do not so broadly capture the passions of today’s twenty-something evangelicals. In fact, a desire for transcendence and tradition among young evangelicals has contributed to a Reformed resurgence. For nearly two years, Christianity Today journalist Collin Hansen visited the chief schools, churches, and conferences of this growing movement. He sought to describe its members and ask its leading pastors and theologians about the causes and implications of the Calvinist resurgence. The result, Young, Restless, Reformed, shows common threads in their diverse testimonies and suggests what tomorrow’s church might look like when these young evangelicals become pastors or professors. “Collin Hansen invites us on a voyage of discovery, learning how our restless youth are discovering anew the great doctrines of the Christian faith. Weary of churches that seek to entertain rather than teach, longing after the true meat of the Word, these young people are pursuing doctrine. Discover how God is moving among the young, the restless, and the Reformed.” Tim Challies, author, The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment; blogger at Challies.com “Young, Restless, Reformed is the product of some outstanding research. This book will help the reader gain valuable insight into the growing Reformed movement in America.” Jerry Bridges, author of The Pursuit of Holiness “Collin Hansen has uncovered a fresh movement of young Christians for whom doctrine fuels evangelism, kindles passion, and transforms lives. Read it and rejoice.” David Neff, editor-in-chief, Christianity Today media group “A number of strategic ministries have been quietly upholding the doctrines of grace, planting churches, seeing people converted, teaching the whole counsel of God. It is time for quiet gratitude to God and earnest intercessory prayer that what has begun well will flourish beyond all human expectation.” D. A. Carson, Research Professor of New Testament, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School “This lively account is must reading for ministry leaders working with young adults. A wake-up call to ba
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Reweaving The Sacred
$26.60Ideal growth and development tool for small congregations in all mainline denominations
Simple, clear exercises and techniques to help leaders and members pinpoint problems and claim and identify gifts and values of their shared history, in order to engage in a ministry of renewal, welcome, and growth
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Suburban Church
$28.00Over half of all North Americans live in the suburbs. In The Suburban Church, retired pastor Arthur DeKruyter encourages Christians to “go where the people congregate” and illustrates how to plant, grow, and renew suburban congregations.
Throughout this book, DeKruyter relies on forty-five-plus years of pastoral ministry experience in which his own congregation grew from five families to more than five thousand members. He demonstrates how to minister successfully, dispels myths about suburbia, and explains how to recruit and support volunteers and how to connect international missions to local church growth, and more.
Each chapter concludes with questions for discussion, making the book ideal for pastors and church committees.
Foreword by Leith Anderson
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Growing The Church
$16.86Whether you are the pastor of a newly formed church that is just beginning its journey or the pastor of a well established church that simply needs a new direction, Pastor Dave Ford’s Four Step Plan for Growth will work for you. Specifically designed for small churches, this program will show you how to develop the four core ministries every church needs to succeed: Prayer, Discipleship, Follow-Up, and Outreach! By creating these four cornerstones, pastors will be ready for exponential growth in their church size and higher levels of influence in their community. After twelve years of being Senior Pastor at World Harvest Community Church in New Berlin, Wisconsin, Pastor Dave Ford has taken the techniques that have proven to be successful in his church and put them together in a program designed to help pastors grow their congregations. Be prepared for the blessings this program will bring to your church!
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