Church Institutions Organizations category: 259 books
Skeleton Church
A Bare-Bones Definition of Church
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Do you want to be the church?
How can you, if you don't know what the church actually is?
Only after you understand what the church is can you begin to properly live and function as God's church in this world.
Thankfully, Skeleton Church simply and easily defines "church"...
Leading Congregations and Nonprofits in a Connected World
Platforms, People, and Purpose
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Leading Congregations and Nonprofits in a Connected World shares emerging practices for leading and organizing congregations and nonprofits in our increasingly networked lives. Drawing on studies of congregations across denominations, and nonprofits with historic ties to faith communities, Hayim Herring...
Beyond the Congregation
The World of Christian Nonprofits
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
Christianity in the United States has long been organized around congregations and denominations. However, a different type of organization operating outside of these traditional structures is claiming an increasingly important place in the religious market. The growth of Christian nonprofits, popularly...
THE CHURCH CURE
Overcoming Church Problems
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
In order to overcome and church problems, we must first talk about the different problems of the church. Many of the church problems today stem from the isms: liberalism, humanism, modernism, Christian progressivism, theological liberalism, feminism, higher criticism, and biblical criticism. Moreover,...
Managing Religion: The Management of Christian Religious and Faith-Based Organizations
Volume 2: External Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
by Stephen J. Bove
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
The Enemy was the First Great Theologian, he was the First High Priest of Mysteries, he was the First Master of Esoteric Knowledge. He was the Father of New Religion. Really, he was the First Self-Made God. To those who by nature sought power, he offered his course: Power-Grabbing Made Easy. To those...
Simple Church
Unity Within Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
“What is simple church?” This is a simple question that doesn’t have a simple answer.
Simple Church: Unity Within Diversity is an attempt to shed light on the above question and provide some answers. The twenty-four contributors all hope this book will help people, both inside and outside...
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...
One Church, Four Generations
Understanding and Reaching All Ages in Your Church
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
The challenge facing today's church is simultaneous and effective ministry to people of four widely divergent generations. More than at any time in history, pastors must plan programs that will appeal to a mosaic of groups and subgroups. This updated edition of Three Generations: Riding the Waves...
New Standards
for Key Music Ministry Leadership Positions in the Black Baptist Church (a 21st Century Perspective)
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Ouida W. Harding has focused her attention on music ministry and by doing so she has provided a useful resource, not only for those who serve in music ministry, but also for the rest of us who are a part of the worshipping community of faith. —J. Wendell Mapson Jr., Pastor, Monumental Baptist Church,...
Ministry of the Missional Church, The
A Community Led by the Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
In a time when churches are focusing on finding strategies and techniques to guarantee success, a movement toward the missional church is emerging. Missional churches are communities created by the Spirit with a unique nature and identity. Purpose and strategies of the church are derivative dimensions,...
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...
by David Goodhew
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Concern about church growth and decline is widespread and contentious, yet theological reflection on church growth is scarce. Reflecting on the Bible, dogmatic theology and church history, this book situates the numerical growth of the church within wider Christian theology. Leading international...
by Loren B. Mead
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
In 1991 The Once and Future Church by Alban Institute founder and former director Loren B. Mead created an instant sensation in congregational circles with its prophetic insights into the life of the church in a post-Christendom era. Still often-quoted and in demand, the book stands as Alban's all-time...