Resources : Books
100 Ways to Get Your Church Noticed
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- Kingsway Publications
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- Serving the Community
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Presents original ideas on how to publicise events and bring your church life and community closer together, as well as provide the kind of environment that makes people want to come back again and again.
Added on 9 Jan 09
Mission-shaped Parish: traditional church in a changing world
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- Church House Publishing
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- Church Development, Serving the Community
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Did the realist in you read Mission-shaped Church and think ‘how can our ordinary church aspire to this?’ If so, this book is for you.
Mission-shaped Parish looks at the bread-and-butter things that churches regularly do, through the lens of mission. It takes a fresh look at a typical parish church’s worship, pastoral contacts, civic and public responsibilities, faith nurturing opportunities, its administration and government – and creatively points to how all of this can be seen from the point of view God’s mission.
Added on 9 Jan 09
Mission-shaped Spirituality: the transforming power of mission
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- Church House Publishing
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- Church Development, Serving the Community
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If your shelves are overloaded with books on how to do mission, create some space to engage with this book. No to-do lists. No win-win strategies. Instead this discerning book reflects on the inner resources and attitude of mind required to engage in mission in a post-modern, pluralist society.
Combining real-life case studies with vital lessons from her own personal journey, Susan Hope explores what happens to us on the inside when we embark on mission. This gently provocative book will help us to listen to the Holy Spirit and the cultures in which we find ourselves.
This book encourages the reader to discover a spirituality that envigorates and revives enthusiasm and personal vision for mission.
Added on 9 Jan 09
Mission-shaped Church
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- Church House Publishing
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- Church Development
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Society in Britain has changed dramatically in the last 30 years, especially in terms of our understanding of community and how we relate to one another. One of the responses of the Church has been to plant new churches and create ‘fresh expressions’ of church; churches that relate to our changing context. This detailed, practical and well-researched book:
- gives an overview of recent developments in church planting
- describes varied and exciting ‘fresh expressions’ of church
- offers practical help and advice
- looks candidly at where lessons can be learned
- proposes a framework and methodology for good, effective church planting
- includes recommendations to make possible the visions of a vibrant future Church
Added on 9 Jan 09
Who Stole My Church?
- Publisher
- Thomas Nelson
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- Church Development
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Has your Church been Hijacked?
Millions of people in their fifties, sixties, and seventies feel their churches have been hijacked by church-growth movements characterized by loud praise bands, constant PowerPoint presentations, and cavernous megachurches devoid of any personal touch. They are bewildered by the changes, and are dropping out after thirty, forty, or fifty years in a congregation. It’s a crisis!
In this fictional story, pastor and author Gordon MacDonald uses topical examples and all-too-familiar characters to reassure readers that it is possible to embrace change, and to demonstrate how that change can actually be a positive influence in their church. The church, he says, has always been in a state of change; it has been changing for the last two thousand years. It is time to embrace that change and use it further the Kingdom of God
Added on 9 Jan 09
Working it out
- Publisher
- IVP
- Categories
- Personal Faith
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- Can welding a gatepost bring glory to God?
- Does ironing your children’s uniforms help you grow as a disciple?
- Will your new crime prevention strategy do anything to further the kingdom?
To all three Ian Coffey says a resounding ‘yes’.
With lively Bible teaching and drawing on a wealth of real-life stories, he shows how work was part of God’s good plan for men and women – given to us so we can make a creative contribution in his world.
Whatever your work, God is interested in it, God can transform it, and God wants to use it – for his glory.
Added on 9 Jan 09