Church category: 10276 books
A New Kind of Church
Understanding Models of Ministry for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
There is no shortage of books these days on new ways of "doing church." New church models have been both warmly embraced and roundly criticized. What are church leaders and others concerned about the state of the church to make of all this? Does the Bible prescribe a standard model for doing...
The Sacred Secular
How God Is Using the World to Shape the Church
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
The Sacred Secular examines cultural spaces where people are experiencing something sacred. These places are not in the church. They’re in yoga studios, neighborhood potlucks, and TED Talks. Dottie Escobedo-Frank and Rob Rynders see lessons for the church in these spaces. They see new ways we can...
Building Church
Practical wisdom for all church builders
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Building Church is the culmination of 30 years of Stephen Matthew’s experience as a leader and church builder. It contains the distilled wisdom and lessons learned from the process of repurposing a church with passion and direction. He insists that anyone who offers a “model” for church building...
Imagining the Small Church
Celebrating a Simpler Path
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Imagining the Small Church: Celebrating a Simpler Path bears witness to what God is doing in small churches. Steve Willis tells stories from the small churches he has pastored in rural, town, and urban settings and dares to imagine that their way of being has something to teach all churches in this...
Religious Crisis and Civic Transformation
How Conflicts over Gender and Sexuality Changed the West German Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
This book offers a fresh interpretation of the connection between the West German Catholic Church and post-1950s political debates on women’s reproductive rights and the protection of life in West Germany. According to Tichenor, Catholic women in West Germany, influenced by the culture of consumption,...
Budgeting for a Healthy Church
Aligning Finances with Biblical Priorities for Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Many pastors conceive of the church budget as primarily a financial tool, but in fact it is primarily a pastoral tool. A church's philosophy of ministry is locked into its budget, and so the budget will either stifle or accelerate any attempts to move a congregation toward a biblical model of church...
by The Foundry Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
WELCOME TO THE CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE is an engaging introduction to church membership, written in everyday language for the new Christian or for the Christian who is new to the Church of the Nazarene. READERS WILL LEARN ABOUT:The history of the Church of the Nazarene: From the founding of the church...
by C. Eric Lincoln, Lawrence H. Mamiya
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 1990
Black churches in America have long been recognized as the most independent, stable, and dominant institutions in black communities. In The Black Church in the African American Experience, based on a ten-year study, is the largest nongovernmental study of urban and rural churches ever undertaken and...
Ethnic Blends
Mixing Diversity into Your Local Church
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
In this Ethnic Blends Ebook, multi-ethnic church pioneer Mark DeYmaz provides an up-close and personal look at seven common challenges to mixing diversity into your local church. Through real-life stories and practical illustrations, DeYmaz shows how to overcome the obstacles in order to build a healthy...
The Church in Brazil
The Politics of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
In 1980, Brazil was the largest Roman Catholic country in the world, with 90 percent of its more than 120 million people numbered among the faithful. The Church hierarchy became aware, however, that the religion practiced by the majority of its members was not that promoted by the institution, a point...
The Agile Church
Spirit-Led Innovation in an Uncertain Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
A groundbreaking and essential guide to opening up the concept of church and achieving spiritual renewal in the 21st century.
Taking one page from the Bible and another from Silicon Valley, priest and scholar Dwight J. Zscheile brings theological insights together with cutting-edge thinking...
Foundations of Church Administration
Professional Tools for Church Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Church leadership is a demanding and challenging role. There are many responsibilities involved in leading a church, which can be difficult to maneuver without the proper tools and resources.Written with Biblebased truths and helpful insights, Foundations of Church Administration is both an exploration...
The Kingdom Focused Church
A Compelling Image of an Achievable Future for Your Church
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
The Kingdom-Focused Church will give you everything you need to achieve your church's full potential—and relief from the smorgasbord approach that distracts you from the unique focus, nature, and mission of the church God has saved for you. You'll discover that success doesn't come from copying...
The American Church in Crisis
Groundbreaking Research Based on a National Database of over 200,000 Churches
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Groundbreaking research based on a national database of over 200,000 churches shows that the overall United States population is growing faster than the church. The director of the American Church Research Project, Dave Olson, has worked to analyze church attendance, showing that it is virtually unchanged...