The Startup Church

Author : Scott Asai,Ronnie Gee,Lisa Asai,Kyle Asai
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1478351772

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The Startup Church by Scott Asai,Ronnie Gee,Lisa Asai,Kyle Asai Pdf

Church sucks. For Millennials between the stages of post-high school to pre-married with children, the church has become an irrelevant, prehistoric and religious institution invisible in the modern era. How can this organization transform its dying ways to become relevant again? The Startup Church reveals the system failure and addresses how it should be fixed. Using business principles and examples, each chapter asks questions for the reader to resolve the "10 Things I Hate About Church." This book lays out the blueprint of how to revolutionize the present day church into the hope for the next generation: faith communities.

Author : Barna Group
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0996584390

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Church Startups and Money by Barna Group Pdf

Author : Corrina Laughlin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780520379671

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Redeem All by Corrina Laughlin Pdf

The church -- The start up -- Media missions -- The influencers -- Racial reckoning and repair.

Author : Barry L Nehls
Publisher : Covenant Books, Inc.
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781638143802

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The Blindfolded Church by Barry L Nehls Pdf

Some are blind from birth, while others, like Helen Keller, are blinded by illness. Still others lose sight through accidents or progressive disease. I submit no one would choose to go through life without sight. And yet the church today is certainly blindfolded. I do not believe the blindness of the church happened suddenly. There have been brilliant moves of God in the church since the Lord’s ascension. However, it has been a slow, methodical process whereby a blindfold has slipped over the eyes of discernment, and the church chooses to remain in the dark. Why would anyone choose to remain blind? Think of it this way. A child born blind cannot describe the experience of seeing a beautiful rose, the glow of a sunset, the majesty of snowcapped mountains, or a crashing waterfall. There is no desire for sight, having never experienced the sensation. For those that see, we would never choose to be blind and remain so. A blindfold suggests that something has willfully been placed over the eyes to prevent sight. The enemy has not only pulled the blindfold over the spiritual eyes of the church but deceived her into thinking she can still see. Jesus Christ was sent to heal the brokenhearted, preach deliverance to the captives, and recover sight to the blind. May we, the church of the living God, remove the blindfold and once again charge forth with the gospel to a lost and dying world.

Author : Mike McDaniel
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780718078836

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The Resurgent Church by Mike McDaniel Pdf

For the first time in centuries, the Church no longer has a primary place in the cultural dialogue. Christian leaders living off old assumptions are struggling, while missional churches are discovering new ways to reinvent themselves, arrest the general decline, and become catalysts for new strategies for reaching non-believers. These new voices are are following the lead of the early church, shifting their focus to a missional model. The Resurgent Church will help church leaders who are struggling to find and incorporate this new paradigm into their local church body.

Author : Da Me
Publisher : XinXii
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783966335959

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St. Thomas Church by Da Me Pdf

This book tells the story of Pastor Steve Palmer and his church in the small Northwest, Michigan town of Hartlin. They face many of the same challenges that we all do, to become the people God has called them and us to become. St. Thomas Church is both fiction and non-fiction. Because the people and many of the places in this book are completely made-up but the message of these parables apply to all of us at one time or another. This Novel can best be called a pre-church growth book. It does not offer strategies to grow your church but is meant to be used as a mirror in personal devotions and as a small group study to ask where am I or we in relationship to where we ought to be. This book does not promote anything goes mentality but instead promotes being God’s hands, feet and mouth to the world outside our doors not just on Sunday but every second, of every day, of every moment. This book does this by telling several short stories and then asking questions that are meant to promote discussion and hopefully action (and if needed, change). Now go forth and change your world.

Author : Phil A. Newton
Publisher : Kregel Publications
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780825444647

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The Mentoring Church by Phil A. Newton Pdf

Ministry Book of the Year--The Gospel Coalition 2017 Book Awards The critical missing element in Christian mentoring today: the congregation "Bringing up future leaders isn't just the job of the pastor but of the whole congregation. This is an urgently needed book in churches today." --R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Young, emerging leaders of the church, many of whom have gone through leadership training and traditional mentorship programs, still too often find themselves unprepared for the realities of ministry. Many leave the ministry altogether, overwhelmed. Phil Newton reveals a critical gap: single-source mentorship is incomplete. Mentoring must involve the congregation, not just senior pastors, in order to bring forth mature, resilient leaders prepared for all that ministry entails. The solid, practical solutions in The Mentoring Church offer churches of any size both the vision for mentoring future leaders and a workable template to follow. With insightful consideration of theological, historical, and contemporary training models for pastor/church partnerships, Newton is a reliable guide to developing a church culture that equips fully prepared leaders.

Author : Roger N. McNamara,Ken Davis
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597811040

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The Y-B-H Handbook of Church Planting (Yes, But How?) by Roger N. McNamara,Ken Davis Pdf

"This book covers all the crucial issues of the church-planting task. It tells how to organize and grow the new church, working toward the ultimate goal of corporate reproduction."

Author : Gary W. Carter
Publisher : Word Alive Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781770690769

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The Small Town Mega Church by Gary W. Carter Pdf

All churches hit growth plateaus. The Small Town Mega Church will give you tools and insights to break through these invisible, yet real barriers. It outlines the proven structures and strategies we have applied to build our churches. It also lays out a step by step outline of how to strengthen and release your church through marketplace ministries. If you are a church with vision that exceeds your present capacity, you will be inspired by this systematic approach to greater success. These effective growth strategies work within the limited resources and manpower of a small church. Pastor Gary is a leading voice in church planting and systematic growth. He uses his years of management experience to bring out key success principles. His teachings will help you to: 1.Clarify vision. 2.Identify core values. 3.Build liberating structures. 4.Create effective systems and strategies. 5.Recognize and break growth plateaus. 6.Establish team dynamics to reach your next level. "By applying the teaching of this book, you will break your church out of the cycles of average!"

Author : Larry Hauder
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498221252

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Called to Be a Pastor by Larry Hauder Pdf

Called to be a Pastor: Why it Matters to Both Congregations and Clergy is a how-to resource with a memoir touch, describing the essential but delicate partnership between clergy and congregation. This partnership requires nurture and attention to detail if the relationship is to prosper. Indeed, the congregation often holds the fate of their pastor's ministry success, much the same way fertile earth holds the fate of a freshly planted seed. On the other hand, a congregation suffers when a pastor is not fully engaged or is incapable of guiding a congregation toward meeting its ministry objectives. Neither pastor nor congregation can serve their designated role without the other's full and active participation in extending God's kingdom. Laypersons and pastors may never see each other in quite the same way after reading Called to be a Pastor. This book captures the pastor/congregation insights that come from a successful pastoral career: First, as a church planter, later as a judicatory with oversight of thirty-five congregations, and, most recently, as a consultant to a broad range of denominations. First time readers have claimed this book to be thought provoking, inspirational, and enlightening!

Author : Gene A. Getz
Publisher : Revell
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493404254

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The Measure of a Man by Gene A. Getz Pdf

More Than a Million Copies Have Been Sold of this Powerful Book for Men, Now Revised for a New Generation For forty years, The Measure of a Man has taught hundreds of thousands of men around the world how to live according to God's direction--faithfully, lovingly, and spiritually. Now revised this classic guide to biblical masculinity is poised to impact a new generation of men. True masculinity is not measured by the strength of a man, but by these twenty biblical guidelines drawn from the Apostle Paul's letters to his young protégés Timothy and Titus. Inspiring, encouraging, and practical, this book shows men how they can reach God's standards as fathers, husbands, and mentors to other men. This updated edition includes QR codes that take the reader to online video resources for further study.

Author : Michael Baughman
Publisher : Discipleship Resources
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0881778532

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Flipping Church by Michael Baughman Pdf

Flipping Church enlists stories from the vanguard of innovative church planting. While serving in wildly different contexts, these writers' successes and struggles in ministry give insight, life, and meaning into persons in established churches and new church starts alike. They have discovered a divine creative spark in breaking the rules of conventional church wisdom and cultivated a flame as a result, and now they bring that flame, through this book, back to the church that sent them out. This is not a book about how to be creative; instead, readers will encounter an empowering spirit to inspire work in any context for ministry. Book jacket.

Author : Lynne Hybels,Bill Hybels
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310530626

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Rediscovering Church by Lynne Hybels,Bill Hybels Pdf

Rediscovering Church is the candid story of Willow Creek Community Church’s phenomenal growth, from 100 members meeting in a Palatine, Illinois, movie theater to its present Sunday morning attendance of 15,000. Bill Hybels and his wife, Lynne, tell about Willow Creek’s beginnings, its struggles, the philosophy behind its success, and the strategies that have made it a model for church growth. The first half of the book, written by Lynne Hybels, explores the early years of Willow Creek and the personal accounts behind one of this century's most remarkable church stories. It offers an honest look at the ways God has used both the strengths and weaknesses of His people, creating a church of believers who have had tremendous impact for Christ in their community. In the second half of Rediscovering Church, Bill Hybels helps you apply the strengths of Willow Creek's ministry philosophy to your own congregation's mission. From mission statements to developing leadership, making sound financial decisions, and handling growth, Bill stresses that God wants to build His church to be an effective and committed community of faith that reaches out to a hurting world, to be the body of Christ in real and tangible ways. Rediscovering Church draws on the experiences of Willow Creek to show how one fellowship crystallized its mission and methodology, its vision and values. The Willow Creek story provides an example that churches and individuals alike can turn to for inspiration, encouragement, and a means of uncovering the pattern for their own unique mission and ministry.

Author : Richard N. Pitt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780197509418

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Church Planters by Richard N. Pitt Pdf

"Starting a new organization is risky business. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, most startups fail; half of them do not reach the five-year mark. Protestant churches are not immune to these trends. Most new churches are not established with denominational support-more than 50% are actually non-denominational-and, therefore, have many of the same vulnerabilities other infant organizations must overcome. Research on both congregants and congregations has shown that millions of Americans are leaving churches, half of all churches do not add any new members, and thousands of churches shutter their doors each year. These numbers suggest that American religion is not a growth industry. Yet, more than 1000 new churches are started in any given year. What are the forces that move people who might otherwise be satisfied working for churches to the more risky role of starting one as a religion entrepreneur? In Church Planters, sociologist Richard Pitt uses more than 125 in-depth interviews with church planters to understand their motivations. First, he uncovers themes in their sometimes miraculous, sometimes mundane answers to the question: "why take on these risks?" Then he examines how they approach three common entrepreneurial challenges-recognizing opportunities, marshalling resources, and framing success-in ways that reduce uncertainty and lead them to believe they will be successful. The book combines their evocative stories with insights from research on commercial and social entrepreneurship to explain how these religion entrepreneurs come to believe their organizational goals must be accomplished, that they are capable of being accomplished, and that they would accomplish them over time"--

Author : Steve Sjogren
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441224446

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Making a Good Church Great by Steve Sjogren Pdf

Bestselling author Steve Sjogren untangles the complex jumble commonly known as greatness in today's megachurch, mega-everything world. As a successful pastor, he launched the servant evangelism movement, but along the way he discovered that significance was not where or what he thought it would be. Now, in a very practical book, he focuses on genuine greatness. Is it the size of the sanctuary? The number of new believers baptized each year? The youth attendance? The quantity of bestselling books the pastor has written? The list of television shows, radio shows, or podcasts the pastors appears on? Or is it something more? What is the buzz on good churches that become great in God's eyes? Sjogren argues that greatness is not a point at which you arrive; rather, it is an ongoing process of worshipping, serving, and living in God's presence. It not a slick program; rather, it is a family, a hospital, an army, and a school. When God is present, his people are empowered. When God empowers his people, a good church becomes great.