Personal stories and actionable advice for the spiritually committed, all rooted in a decades of research.

Even in a country as religious as the U.S., many people feel disengaged from their faith communities. More than half report that they really don't get the opportunity in their congregation to do what they do best. People just feel disconnected.

Maybe it's because those faith communities make unwitting missteps: Pastors ask shy people to be Greeters, or recruit innately disorganized people to coordinate church events.

The problem is simply this: Too many people's talents are...

Growing an Engaged Church offers unique, research-based, often counterintuitive solutions to the challenges facing churches today, including declining congregant participation, decreasing contributions, and slumping membership. Ministers, priests, and church boards will find the evidence and answers in this book provocative, eye-opening, and, most importantly, actionable.

What if members of your congregation . . .

- were 13 times more likely to have invited someone to participate in your church in the past month?

- were three times as satisfied with their lives?

- spent more...

- Grounded in a strengths philosophy already embraced by millions of readers

- Personal stories and actionable advice for the spiritually committed, all rooted in a decades of research.

- Includes an ID code that gives readers access to StrengthsFinder.com, a personality assessment that has had over 1 million completes

Even in a country as religious as the U.S., many people feel disengaged from their faith communities. More than half report that they really don't get the opportunity in their congregation to do what they do best. People just feel disconnected.

Maybe it's...