This is a comprehensive guide to building healthy congregational attitudes and practices toward managing and spending financial resources.
Much has been written about how churches can raise money. Less guidance is available to congregations about what to do with financial resources once they have been gathered in. Even less has been offered by way of a comprehensive view of congregational finances, one that demonstrates how individual attitudes toward giving money and congregational attitudes toward managing and spending money are inextricably linked together.
In this book...
This is a comprehensive guide to building healthy congregational attitudes and practices toward managing and spending financial resources.
This groundbreaking book has given birth to new congregations, rejuvenated tired leaders, and transformed declining churches. By telling the story of thriving church life through the experience of the institutionally alienated, spiritually yearning public, Bandy provides the big picture of thriving church life in the postmodern world. "Desechando Habitos not only challenges the Hispanic church to rediscover faithfulness today, hut reveals that there is a better way to organize effectively as the body of Christ.
This groundbreaking book has given birth to new congregations, rejuvenated tired leaders, and transformed declining churches. By telling the story of ...
The temptation to focus only on their own internal problems and issues is powerful for congregations. Without realizing it, even churches that have a long tradition of outreach and social involvement become centered on issues of institutional survival and preservation. Worst of all are congregations that adopt a "fortress mentality," addressing the larger community rarely, and only in the "language of Zion" when they do. This tendency to isolation and insularity flies directly in the face of the gospel imperative to spread the good news of Jesus Christ.
Christian congregations...
The temptation to focus only on their own internal problems and issues is powerful for congregations. Without realizing it, even churches that have...
An upgrade to the ground-breaking book that has shown thousands of congregations how to overcome the destructive attitudes and systems that prevent them from focusing on their true mission: making disciples of Jesus Christ.
In this upgraded edition, Bandy continues to explore the meaning of walking with Jesus in the 21st century. Drawing on the stories of exciting new congregations that have arisen within the last few years, he sharpens his portrayal of the thriving church system, demonstrating its essential concern for savvy awareness of the larger culture and fidelity to the core...
An upgrade to the ground-breaking book that has shown thousands of congregations how to overcome the destructive attitudes and systems that prevent...
