Church in the Making

Church in the Making
Author: Ben Arment
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2010-04-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433671093

Nearly eighty percent of all new churches fail, leaving countless discouraged church planters wondering why. Ben Arment answers their question with Church in the Making by identifying and expanding on three God ordained conditions that make for a successful church plant even before the doors open: Good Ground – just as Jesus based his ministry on the openness of people’s hearts, we must gauge the spiritual receptivity of our community before planting a church. If the people are not yet open to the Gospel, the first step is to cultivate their hearts. Rolling Rocks – momentum is also key to the success of new churches. If God truly builds his church, then our job is not to start from scratch, but rather to identify where he is already bringing people, funds, and other resources together for his purposes. Deep Roots – wherever there’s a church in the making, God provides a group of leaders who can align people and resources in order to achieve and sustain the church’s mission. Lone planters have a much less hope of succeeding, let alone surviving.

The Church in the Making

The Church in the Making
Author: Richard R. Gaillardetz
Publisher: Paulist Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2006
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780809142767

Vatican II has become a place-marker in the ecclesiastical and ideological geography of contemporary Catholicism. Yet forty years later, few who refer to the council and its teachings, whether with approval or criticism, demonstrate a solid grasp of those teachings. Even fewer are aware of the important debates that have taken place in the past four decades regarding the council's authentic reception and implementation of its documents.

Making the Small Church Effective

Making the Small Church Effective
Author: Carl S. Dudley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1978
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780687230440

What makes the small church so reliably steady, closely intimate, and beautifully simple -- a worthy model of the Christian church? Carl S. Dudley affirms the main cause as lying within the minds of the church members.

Simple Church

Simple Church
Author: Thom S. Rainer
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2011-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0805447997

Now in paperback, this multi-awarded national best seller shares a clear message from case studies of 400 North American congregations: church is done best when it's kept simple.

Making A Good Church Great

Making A Good Church Great
Author: Steve Sjogren
Publisher: Gospel Light Publications
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2010-02-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780830746620

Bestselling author Steve Sjogren untangles the complex jumble commonly known as greatness in today’s mega church, 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 best selling 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 a present, His people are empowered. When God empowers His people, a good church becomes great.

Better Together

Better Together
Author: Jim Tomberlin
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2012-04-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1118131304

Thousands of Protestant churches are perplexed by plateaued or declining attendance, while other congregations nearby thrive. Is there a way for them to combine forces, drawing on both their strengths, in ways that also increase their missional impact? Church merger consultant Jim Tomberlin, with co-writer Warren Bird, makes the case that mergers today work best not with two struggling churches but with a vital, momentum-filled lead church partnering with a joining church. In this new book, they provide a complete, practical, hands-on guide for church leaders of both struggling and vibrant churches so that they can understand the issues, develop strategies, and execute a variety of forms of merger for church expansion and renewal to reinvigorate declining churches and give them a "second life."

The Making of a Local Church

The Making of a Local Church
Author: Francisco F. Claver
Publisher:
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2008
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781570757860

In eleven chapters, Bishop Claver describes how church leaders put the aggorniamento teachings of Vatican II into practice by forming small Christian communities that focused on reading and understanding scripture and then, guided by the Spirit, implemented those teachings in their own communities. A primer on how to develop a local church, the book presents models of participative leadership but also inspires Christians everywhere to make their own churches more responsive to local needs.

Making Peace

Making Peace
Author: Jim Van Yperen
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2008-09-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0802480063

Conflict abounds in the church of Jesus Christ. Reconciliation within the body, however, will not happen with the right 'method' or 'set of principles.' In Making Peace, readers are challenged to place their church and all of its dissension under the Lordship of Jesus Christ.

Church in the Making

Church in the Making
Author: Ben Arment
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2010
Genre: Church development, New
ISBN: 0805464735

"Church in the Making" looks to where God is already working and then effectively organizes the work of church planting for maximum success.