Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Christian Church - Growth

The Participant Guide is a workbook to facilitate the layperson's experience as the church studies Get Their Name. It includes group and individual activities, and personal devotional material.

Church leaders and members should all read the original Get Their Name book during the month of this church-wide experience.

In this compelling book, Scot McKnight shares his personal experience in the church as well as his study of the Apostle Paul to answer this significant question: What is the church supposed to be?

The church the Apostle Paul talks about is designed by God to be a fellowship of difference--how people differ...

How to Break Growth Barriers argues that growth comes when effective leadership and lay-empowerment skills work hand in hand. This requires a shift of focus from the shepherd as the primary caregiver to shepherd as developer and coach of many caregivers. The authors show pastors how to communicate a vision for the future and then...

The New King James Version Bible is one of the most trusted, distributed, and best-selling English translations. The NKJV Outreach Bible is ideal for ministries and churches who want to share the Gospel with those interested in God's Word and Christianity. Features such as charts, maps, a plan of salvation, reading plan, and overviews of the major part of the Bible, make it easy for first-time Bible readers to understand Scripture. This easy-to-share and affordable Bible can be used as a gift to new or non-believers, on outreach events, or mission trips.

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Write the vision. Make it plain. Pastoral care ministry benefits the church and its constituency, as well as the team members delivering the care. Personal spiritual growth, corporate body growth and healing for the hurting are just a few of the many benefits that can be gleaned from participation on a pastoral care team. The objective of this book is to paint a picture of effective pastoral care; using your mind as the canvas and revelation as the brush, to impart the vision. Proverbs 29:18 (KJV) states: "Without a vision the people perish." The NASB states, "Where there is no vision...

The Chinese diaspora is well known for transnational economic activity, but less so for the impact of the diasporic Chinese church in the USA and elsewhere in the world.

Surveying 652 US Chinese churches about their mission activities, along with interviews of a sub-set of respondents, Dr Wu provides analysis and explanation of mission activities using diaspora theories. The trend for Chinese diaspora church mission to take a "Chinese first" approach capitalizes on shared language, culture and transnational networks to advance the gospel. In this era of globalization, diaspora...

In the last two decades a gutsy group of Canadian church planters have taken the plunge. They are not content to simply plant churches--they want to plant new kinds of churches. Churches that are responsive to the Canada that will be--not just the Canada that was. Joe Manafo, in his documentary "One Size Fits All?" sought to capture this movement and understand it. He filmed 19 Christian communities that represent a brave exploration of new and evolving forms of church in Canada. This book picks up where that documentary left off. In these pages you'll hear the...