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Church That Works: Your One-Stop Resource for Effective Ministry
ISBN: 9780801091612 / Angielski / Miękka / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The expertise of veteran church consultant and best-selling author Gary McIntosh is now available in an easily portable format. McIntosh offers readers his invaluable insights on the church in order to help leaders make their churches more effective. It's just like hiring your own church consultant, but at a fraction of the cost. This at-a-glance practical guidebook helps pastors and church leaders with a wide variety of issues, including: -reaching different generations
-assimilating visitors -following trends -designing worship -danger signs of decline -and many more.... The expertise of veteran church consultant and best-selling author Gary McIntosh is now available in an easily portable format. McIntosh offers reader...
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Leading Leaders: Empowering Church Boards for Ministry Excellence
ISBN: 9780801091780 / Angielski / Miękka / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The key to effective leadership in the vast majority of today's churches lies as much with their governing boards as it does with their pastor. But many churches are lead by those who volunteer to chair committees because there is a need, yet they have no leadership training to speak of. How can well-meaning but sometimes ill-prepared lay people guide the path of a church body?
The secret lies in offering effective, practical training. Leadership expert Aubrey Malphurs provides this in Leading Leaders. Filling a gaping hole in leadership literature, Malphurs offers workable strategies to... The key to effective leadership in the vast majority of today's churches lies as much with their governing boards as it does with their pastor. But ma...
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Beyond the First Visit: The Complete Guide to Connecting Guests to Your Church
ISBN: 9780801091841 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. All churches like to think that theirs is the friendliest in town. But do visitors see it that way? Church consultant Gary McIntosh invites readers to take a look at their church through the eyes of visitors and potential visitors. His starting point, grounded in an understanding of God as a -welcomer, - is that churches should see those who enter their doors as not merely visitors, but as guests, and themselves as gracious hosts. This practical book offers sound advice on assessing and improving the ways in which churches attract people, welcome them, do follow-up, and bring them into the...
All churches like to think that theirs is the friendliest in town. But do visitors see it that way? Church consultant Gary McIntosh invites readers to...
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Understanding Church Growth (Revised)
ISBN: 9780802804631 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this missionary classic, first published in 1970, Donald A. McGavran skillfully combines theological convictions, empirical research, sociological principles, and spiritual insights to mold a paradigm for effective evangelism strategy both at home and abroad. This third edition, revised and edited by C. Peter Wagner, retains the book's original aim and essence while modernizing the language and streamlining the flow of ideas, reducing the book's bulk by 35 percent. Other features of this edition include an additional chapter on divine healing and an expanded, updated, and annotated reading...
In this missionary classic, first published in 1970, Donald A. McGavran skillfully combines theological convictions, empirical research, sociological ...
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A Workbook on Biblical Stewardship
ISBN: 9780802807236 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents a transforming understanding of kingdom stewardship that considers not just money but several aspects of God's created order: time, physical resources, spiritual gifts, relationships, the gospel message, and life itself. This book also provides practical material for individual and group study.
Presents a transforming understanding of kingdom stewardship that considers not just money but several aspects of God's created order: time, physical ...
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Pitfalls in Preaching
ISBN: 9780802808202 / Angielski / Miękka / 167 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Richard Eslinger discusses with insight, humor, and concision what he sees as the most critical pitfalls in the various contexts of preaching and offers practical strategies for avoiding them.
Richard Eslinger discusses with insight, humor, and concision what he sees as the most critical pitfalls in the various contexts of preaching and offe...
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Getting the Word Across: Speech Communication for Pastors and Lay Leaders
ISBN: 9780802841520 / Angielski / Miękka / 904 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume gives pastors and worship leaders practical lessons in disciplined, interpretive speech that will enhance the living quality of Scripture for listeners today. Jacks discusses the practical techniques of effective oral interpretation--phrasing, emphasis, imagery, and vocal gesture--and covers important matters of voice and diction--pronunciation, articulation, and vocal control. Other communication tips include ways to restructure Scripture readings, a chart listing trouble areas in voice and diction, and much more.
This volume gives pastors and worship leaders practical lessons in disciplined, interpretive speech that will enhance the living quality of Scripture ...
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Serve the Community of the Church: Christians as Leaders and Ministers
ISBN: 9780802841827 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume explores the nature of leadership in the Christian community, especially as it was variously taught by Paul and practiced in the congregations of the first century. Exploring valuable ancient source material as well as the New Testament texts, Andrew Clarke describes the theories and practices of organization and leadership in key areas of first-century society-the city, the colony, associations, Jewish synagogues, the family-and discusses the extent to which these models influenced the first-century Christians as they sought to define the parameters and distinctives of their own...
This volume explores the nature of leadership in the Christian community, especially as it was variously taught by Paul and practiced in the congregat...
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Suffering Divine Things: Theology as Church Practice
ISBN: 9780802846884 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do Christian beliefs and practices interrelate? What is the nature and task of theology? These questions have reemerged in the contemporary discussion with new vigor. In this book Reinhard Hutter explores the link between Christian theory and action, rigorously arguing for a renewed understanding of theology as a distinct church practice. Using "pathos"-"suffering" God's saving activity-as a powerful theological motif, Hutter offers fresh insight into the relationships between the Holy Spirit and the church, doctrine and theology, and beliefs and practices. In addition, Hutter shows how...
How do Christian beliefs and practices interrelate? What is the nature and task of theology? These questions have reemerged in the contemporary discus...
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How to Mobilize Church Volunteers
ISBN: 9780806620121 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do you motivate the volunteers on your staff? Are you "burning out" your best people? What can you do with the pew- sitters? Do you find it hard to ask for help? This insightful, practical book by Marlene Wilson, an international authority on volunteerism, will help you answer these and other questions about volunteers in the church. Problems in any church's volunteer program can be corrected, says Wilson. We can learn to care as much about people as we do about programs by using sound principles for human resource management. This new book for all churches points out common problems,...
How do you motivate the volunteers on your staff? Are you "burning out" your best people? What can you do with the pew- sitters? Do you find it hard t...
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Ten Habits for Effective Minis
ISBN: 9780806629902 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Studies reveal that many pastors are stressed out, discouraged, and tempted to leave the ministry. Giving practical advice and often drawing on examples from his own experience, Lowell O. Erdahl offers support and wise counsel for new and experienced clergy alike. Erdahl shows that to provide life-giving ministries, pastors must develop ten key habits, including: bonding with their people, having something to say and saying it well, becoming lifelong learners, picking their battles wisely and fighting them fairly, exercising gift-evoking leadership, and respecting boundaries.
Studies reveal that many pastors are stressed out, discouraged, and tempted to leave the ministry. Giving practical advice and often drawing on exampl...
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Moving Beyond Church Growth
ISBN: 9780806643465 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Character development for communities of faith Mark Olson believes that trying to meet unrealistic expectations for church growth, along with expectations that pastors be all things to all people, has resulted in low morale, even burnout, among clergy and dissension within congregations. Olson's book argues that church-growth models exemplify and exacerbate the tendencies of the modern age and Constantinian Christianity, holding the church hostage to technique and marketing. These assumptions set up pastors and churches for disappointment and failure. But they also, in his opinion, miss an...
Character development for communities of faith Mark Olson believes that trying to meet unrealistic expectations for church growth, along with expectat...
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Our Context
ISBN: 9780806644042 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Our Context is a guide to exploring your congregation and the surrounding community, identifying potential problems, and highlighting new opportunities to carry out your congregation's mission and proclaim the gospel. If you are in a congregation or community that is changing, the process outlined in this book can help your congregation deal with the changes in a positive manner. This book helps pastors and congregational leaders work together in strategic planning, management, and evangelism teams. See Excerpts for reproducible tools that can be downloaded and customized. Who might find it...
Our Context is a guide to exploring your congregation and the surrounding community, identifying potential problems, and highlighting new opportunitie...
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Our Mission: Discovering Gods Call to Us
ISBN: 9780806644059 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These books look specifically at the context of a congregation, how to manage church assets, how to write a mission statement, and how the congregation should be structured.
These books look specifically at the context of a congregation, how to manage church assets, how to write a mission statement, and how the congregatio...
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Our Stewardship: Managing Our Assets
ISBN: 9780806644066 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Our Stewardship looks at how to identify, manage, and build up the assets needed for your congregation's mission and ministry (such as a building, grounds, equipment, information, and finances). God gives assets to each person and every congregation and calls us to grow in faith as we serve as stewards of these gifts. The book also talks about what to look for when selecting materials for a financial stewardship program. See Excerpts for reproducible tools that can be downloaded and customized. Who might find it helpful Pastors Church staff members Council presidents Strategic planning teams...
Our Stewardship looks at how to identify, manage, and build up the assets needed for your congregation's mission and ministry (such as a building, gro...
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Our Gifts
ISBN: 9780806644097 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Our Gifts will help you to identify the gifts of your congregation's members, mobilize people for mission and ministry, and recruit, train, and support leaders. This book helps pastors and congregational leaders to develop lay leadership in the congregation through experience, example, feedback, learning, and teaching. See Excerpts for reproducible tools that can be downloaded and customized. Who might find it helpful Pastors Church staff members Council presidents Other leaders recruiting or working with new leaders
Our Gifts will help you to identify the gifts of your congregation's members, mobilize people for mission and ministry, and recruit, train, and suppor...
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Our Staff: Building Our Human Resources
ISBN: 9780806644103 / Angielski / Miękka / 111 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Our Staff can help you think through the human resources needed for the mission and ministry of your congregation as well as employment issues. This book helps congregations understand their unique roles as employers. Topics include hiring to carry out the church's mission, building working teams, caring for staff members, setting standards and evaluating staff performance. See Excerpts for reproducible tools that can be downloaded and customized. Who might find it helpful Pastors Church staff members Council presidents Personnel committees Mutual ministry committees
Our Staff can help you think through the human resources needed for the mission and ministry of your congregation as well as employment issues. This b...
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Our Community: Dealing with Conflict in Our Congregation
ISBN: 9780806644110 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Our Community begins by looking at what conflict is and who we are as people of God, then discusses ways that we deal with conflict, healthy and unhealthy conflict, life skills, the role of the pastor and lay leaders in conflict situations, and how to heal and rebuild community. This book looks at how our past affects the way we deal with conflict. It discusses how to prevent conflict as well as how to deal with it when it arises. This resource is a must for pastors and congregational leaders! See Excerpts for reproducible tools that can be downloaded and customized. Who might find it helpful...
Our Community begins by looking at what conflict is and who we are as people of God, then discusses ways that we deal with conflict, healthy and unhea...
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One Anothering, Volume 1: Biblical Building Blocks for Small Groups
ISBN: 9780806690551 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eleven sessions, based on such themes as love one another, bear one another's burdens, submit to one another, and encourage one another. Includes guidelines and basic considerations for group formation.
Eleven sessions, based on such themes as love one another, bear one another's burdens, submit to one another, and encourage one another. Includes guid...
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One Anothering, Volume 2: Building Spiritual Community in Small Groups
ISBN: 9780806690568 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ten sessions, based on such themes as "accept one another," "serve one another," "teach one another," and "honor one another." Includes a special introductory chapter on "The Power of Community," outlining the core biblical basis for small groups.
Ten sessions, based on such themes as "accept one another," "serve one another," "teach one another," and "honor one another." Includes a special intr...
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