Frost and HirschThe Shaping of Things To Come
This is a book that should be read by every Christian who knows something is wrong with today’s version of Christianity but can’t put their finger on what it is. The authors challenge every facet of Christianity today from ordination to the traditional creeds and offer a […]
Frazee, RandyThe Comeback Congregation
The Comeback Congregation by Randy Frazee (Abingdon) is an excellent example of how to organize around your church’s mission. Using this model, Frazee took a declining church from around 1,000 to 3,000 in worship in five years, using his method of organization. I give it three stars.
The Big Idea teaches four huge values I see in so many thriving churches around the country: The value of focusing on one main theme, less it more, team ministries, and planning ahead. Whether you are a single station church or am multi-site church, your ministry will profit from reading this book from Community […]
by Dave and Jon Ferguson
This book is chock full of information and not just for church planters or people interested in forming a church planting movement. It not only not only tells the story of Christian Community Church and the pilgrimage of Troy McMahon from member to staff member to campus pastor to church […]
by Farr
Abingdon 2011
This is a decidedly United Methodist book, but that doesn’t mean the rest of us can’t learn a good bit from their work … and if you happen to be a Methodist, all the better.
The crux of the book is that when it comes to transformation, most churches focus on redecorating rather […]
(Abingdon Press: 1996, 157 pgs. paperback. Available thru Abingdon Press, Nashville, TN 800-251-3320.
Few books cause me to cry, but this one did in several places. It is written with “practical passion.” It not only tells the story of the turnaround of a dying, grand old downtown church, but it records the intense passion and […]
(Abingdon Press, 1996)160 pages, plus bonus Spreadsheet Disk, $29.95, Paperback. Obtain thru Abingdon Press, Nashville, TN 800-251-3320 or thru 21st Century Strategies, 361/749-5364.
This is one of the most complete tools a church leader can use to see where the church has been the past ten years, see where the church is this year, and […]
(Nashville, TN, Abingdon Press, 2003), 152 pages, paperback, $16.00. (Obtain from Abingdon Press, PO Box 801, 201 Eighth Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37202 or www.abingdonpress.com.)
This book offers a very practical look into a biblical approach to stewardship and money. This is not a book about fundraising. You will not find any helpful tactics or gimmicks […]
Driscoll’s best book to date. Matter of fact; yet brilliantly written. Brutally honest; but full of compassion. You’ll either love it or hate it.