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Community 101by Gilbert Bilezikian
Zondervan 2009; US$ 10.99'Community 101' is a carefully reasoned and passionately argued plea for the church to fulfill its essential nature and calling. more...
Christian Chaosby Thomas Bandy
Abingdon Press 2004; US$ 13.00The means by which a church makes decisions and conducts its corporate life will determine the kind of church it will become. more...
Moving Off the Mapby Thomas Bandy; Carolyn L. Stapleton
Abingdon Press 2004; US$ 13.00Here are powerful processes and tools to help congregations identify their strengths, weaknesses, and addictions. These processes can help a congregation shift attitudes, deepen spiritual awareness, received Biblical visions, and shape ministries for the future. more...
God's Favorite House Expanded Editionby Tommy Tenney
Treasures Media Inc 2006; US$ 10.49If God were ever to get 'homesick' for any of the houses of worship on earth, where would that be? What events at that location would provoke the eternal mind of God to label that house as His favorite�to forever memorialize it in His mind? Man seeks God encounters at what he calls 'God's house,' but God seeks man encounters at what He calls 'man's house'. Remember the names 'Moses' Tabernacle', 'David's Tabernacle', 'Solomon's Temple'? God has searched the earth for intimate worship since the Garden of Eden. What would happen if the ancient patterns and old blueprints were rediscovered? What if the anointed practices were refreshed and restored? If we could 'rebuild' that house, would He 'revisit'? With the landscape littered... more...
Divine Confrontationby Graham Cooke
Treasures Media Inc 2006; US$ 11.19The Church is in a season of profound change. The birth pangs of transition are changing the order of 'what is' into a Church that can do the will of God in the midst of a difficult environment. By nature, labor produces a violent change from the old to the new, and it has left some churches broken and bewildered. We must discern between the work of the enemy and the work of the Holy Spirit. In essence, transition forms the rite of passage from one dimension of the Spirit to another. This book details the elements of that changing process. more...
What is a Healthy Church?by Mark Dever
Good News Publishers 2007; US$ 9.99Guides both pastors and members to recognize key characteristics of a healthy church and then challenge each person to do his or her part in developing those characteristics in the local church body. more...
What is a Healthy Church Member?by Thabiti Anyabwile
Good News Publishers/Crossway Books 2008; US$ 9.99Anyabwile explains how membership in the local church can produce spiritual growth in its members and how each member can contribute to the growth and health of the whole. (Practical Life) more...
The Megachurch and the Mainlineby Stephen Ellingson
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 22.50Religious traditions provide the stories and rituals that define the core values of church members. Yet modern life in America can make those customs seem undesirable, even impractical. As a result, many congregations refashion church traditions so they may remain powerful and salient. How do these transformations occur? How do clergy and worshipers negotiate which aspects should be preserved or discarded? Focusing on the innovations of several mainline Protestant churches in the San Francisco Bay Area, Stephen Ellingson’s The Megachurch and the Mainline provides new understandings of the transformation of spiritual traditions. For Ellingson, these particular congregations typify a new type of Lutheranism—one which combines... more...
Missional Renaissanceby Reggie McNeal
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2009; US$ 24.95Reggie McNeal's bestseller The Present Future is the definitive work on the "missional movement," i.e., the widespread movement among Protestant churches to be less inwardly focused and more oriented toward the culture and community around them. In that book he asked the tough questions that churches needed to entertain to begin to think about who they are and what they are doing; in Missional Renaissance, he shows them the three significant shifts in their thinking and behavior that they need to make that will allow leaders to chart a course toward being missional: (1) from an internal to an external focus, ending the church as exclusive social club model; (2) from running programs and ministries to developing people as its core activity;... more...
Church, Community and Powerby Roy Kearsley
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2009; US$ 114.95In the era of 'post-Christendom', how can church as a sociological reality be switched on to the destructive dangers, yet constructive possibilities, of 'power' flowing in and around its community? Attuned to the current distrust of church power, this book creatively works out responses that could turn painful censure into a re-visioning of church power relations, helped by neglected critical studies. The approach exposes a complexity to power, and filters that insight into a theology of church. Much attention is paid in the book to the relevance to a religious community of post-modern philosopher Michel Foucault and of recent feminism.The topic of power has universal importance in the study of religion, though the response... more...