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Accidental Anglican : The Surprising Appeal Of The Liturgical Church
$17.99

Many are longing for historical connectedness and for theology that is “not tied to the whims of contemporary culture, but to apostolic-era understandings of Christian faith and practice.” They also yearn for rhythms and routines that build spiritual health. Still others are responding to a call to participate in worship rather than merely sitting back and looking at a stage. Liturgy offers all of this and more. In this book Todd Hunter chronicles his journey from the Jesus People movement and national leadership in the Vineyard to eventually becoming an Anglican Bishop. Along the way he explains why an evangelical Christian might be drawn to the liturgical way. Curious about the meaning of liturgy? Come and discover what may be waiting for you there.

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Worship And Mission After Christendom
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Today, as Christendom weakens, worship and mission are poised to reunite after centuries of separation. But this requires the church to rethink both “mission” and “worship.” In post-Christendom mission, God is the main actor and God calls all Christians to participate. In post-Christendom worship, the church tells and celebrates the story of God, enabling members to live in hope and attract outsiders to its many tables of hospitality.

In this passionate and thoughtful study, Alan Kreider and Eleanor Kreider draw upon missiology, liturgiology, biblical studies, church history, and the vast experience of today’s global Christian church. Academically responsible but also practical and accessible, Worship and Mission After Christendom is a much-needed guide for people who take seriously God’s call to be the church in a world where institutional religion is no longer taken for granted.

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Global Church Planting (Reprinted)
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Prologue: The Parable Of The Apple Trees
Part 1: Biblical Foundation
Part 2: Strategic Considerations
Part 3: Development Phases
Part 4: Critical Factors

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With over forty years combined global church-planting experience, Craig Ott and Gene Wilson are well qualified to write a comprehensive, up-to-date guide for cross-cultural church planting. Combining substantive biblical principles and missiological understanding with practical insights, this book walks readers through the various models and development phases of church planting. Advocating methods that lead to church multiplication, the authors emphasize the role of the missionary church planter. They offer helpful reflection on current trends and provide best practices gathered from research and empirical findings around the globe. The book takes up a number of special issues not addressed in most church planting books, such as use of short-term teams, partnerships, and wise use of resources. Full of case studies and real examples from around the world, this practical text will benefit students, church planters, missionaries, and missional church readers.

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For The Communion Of The Churches
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Encourages Christians to work toward greater unity and fellowship

Founded by Abbe Paul Couturier in 1937, the Groupe des Dombes is a Protestant-Catholic coalition in French-speaking Europe uniting Reformed, Lutheran, and Catholic scholars in a common spirit of prayer, dialogue, and discernment; their pioneering work has influenced many other official ecumenical dialogues.

*Brings together an anthology of statements produced by the Group des Dombes from 1971 to 1991, appearing here together in English translation for the first time
*Expresses the Groupe’s keen insights into the renewal of theology and church life necessary for progress toward full ecclesial unity
*Invites churches today to strive for more fruitful dialogue and greater harmony

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Servanthood As Worship
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Browse a Christian book website or bookstore and notice all there is for leaders and would-be leaders. There are studies of leaders, keys to leadership, and tips on becoming a leader. Books that promote servanthood tend to be about leadership. But how many books inspire us simply to serve one another? The appeal of leadership has hijacked the biblical call to servanthood. As a result, we major on a role that will only ever be held by a few, and we largely ignore a role that ought to be held by every Christian. Whatever happened to servanthood? Servanthood as Worship offers Christians a biblical understanding of their calling to serve in the church, motivated by the grace that is ours in the gospel. It has the potential to revitalize service teams in churches across the world, from church plants to established congregations.

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Leading The Congregation (Revised)
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Leading the Congregation is a complete and definitive guide to the practice of church leadership. The book describes essential paradigms for the leader that integrate spiritual integrity and service within a “systems” view of the congregation and its ministry.

This revised and updated version focuses on the challenges of congregational leadership in a culture that has fewer ties to Christian faith. The authors lay out the dual contexts in which church leaders must function-within the congregation, and as the congregation’s representative to the community-and they explain the very different skill sets required to flourish in each. Underlying the revised edition is an insistence on the congregational leader’s call from God, and cultivation of her or his relationship with God. Leadership is not the same thing as charisma, they explain; it is rather a set of attitudes and practices that each of us can and must master if we are to be worthy servants of Christ.

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Journey In The Wilderness
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The last forty years have seen transitions in mainline churches that feel, for many, like a journey into the wilderness. Yet God is calling us in this moment, not to grieve over the changes we have experienced, but to hear the call to a new mission, and a new faithfulness. Gil Rendle draws on decades as a pastor and church consultant to point a way into a hopeful future. The key to embracing the wilderness is to learn new skills in leading change, to reach beyond a position of privilege and power to become churches that serve God’s hurting people.

Empowers readers to minister more faithfully, and joyfully, in a situation of congregational and denominational transition

A careful analysis of the changes that have taken place in mainline Protestant churches over the last decades.

Thorough review of the lessons learned, both inside and beyond the church, about leading organizations during times of social upheaval.

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5 Practices Of Fruitful Congregations – (Other Language)
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People are searching for a church shaped and sustained by Radical Hospitality, Passionate Worship, Intentional Faith Development, Risk-Taking Mission and Service, and Extravagant Generosity. These fundamental practices are critical to the success of congregations. Their presence and strength demonstrate congregational health, vitality, and fruitfulness. By repeating and improving these practices, churches fulfill their mission to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world.

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Pastor And Deacons
$16.23

How should a church be organized? What functions do the pastors, deacons, and congregation serve? Who qualifies for the offices of pastor and deacon? How should a church manage its finances? How does a congregation biblically address problems? The authors answer these important questions and many more. As fellow servants in the same church, the authors have collaborated in the writing of this book. Pastors and Deacons is a practical exposition and application of biblical principles of church organization and leadership. The “on-the-job,” real-life experiences of the authors make this a particularly practical book.

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Mission Shaped Parish
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This is a practical how-to guide introducing new, mission-shaped practices in a traditional parish setting. This book looks at the church’s bread-and-butter activities – worship, pastoral contacts, civic and public responsibilities, faith formation, administration and leadership – and creatively points out how to reframe them with a focus on God’s mission.

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Mission Shaped Church
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The world has changed, but will the church keep up? This seminal report from the Church of England evaluates the changing religious landscape and introduces exciting new forms of church that speak directly to their diverse mission contexts.

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Mobilizing Men For One On One Ministry
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A Dynamic New Approach to Men’s Ministry

Men’s breakfasts, golf outings, and other events still have a place in men’s ministry. But Steve Sonderman is finding that the most effective ministry is relational rather than programmatic. Drawing from the successes at his church and others, Sonderman shows leaders how to motivate and mobilize their men to minister to each other. Readers learn what men are looking for today, how men grow spiritually, and how to develop a leadership pipeline in their church.

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Crisis In The Camp
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Move from being in crisis to believing “Christ is”!

Crisis in the Camp is the latest work by author Dave Gentry-a veteran mentor who has ministered to Christian leaders and their families for decades-offering a bold look at the condition of the church and suggesting solutions for what troubles it. This treatment of the church and the state of its leaders is a startling wake-up call to all those who will listen and learn to discern the signs of trouble. Hope and help are offered in the face of daunting challenges and readers are reminded to return to the radical ways of Jesus Christ.

“Dave Gentry has written a challenging book about the contemporary church and its leadership. This should be read by all leaders in the church-clergy and laity-and be discussed and applied thoroughly by leadership teams. There are numerous insights that will enable the church and leadership to more appropriately represent Jesus and His design for Christian community and outreach in the days ahead. It is a persuasive argument for doing better than we have done.

John Barner, D. Min.
Pastoral Care Ministry
Focus on the Family

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Forming A Congregation
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If you, as a pastor, church administrator, or elder have ever considered increasing the church body of your church, now is the time and this book will be a great help. Techniques in advertising, services offered, activities, and building a Web site are just a few of the topics covered. As your church starts using these advertising techniques and offering services and activities that are for hundreds of churches, you will see the attendance start growing on a weekly basis.

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Church Hurts Can Make You Bitter Workbook (Workbook)
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I dedicate this workbook to those who do not know how to move on from the hurt, and pain they have experienced in life. Hurt is common to us all, and if we do not deal with it properly, it can paralyze us to the point of leaving us helpless and stagnated.

This self-help study book will provide you with an opportunity to eliminate your hurts by, focusing on some major areas that can keep you bound: relationships, forgiveness, the tension between God’s will and yours, self-inventory, prayer and deliverance, and healing. The questions and Scriptures dealing with these areas will help you identify various issues in your life, using the Bible as a reference for answers. Focus on God’s will for you, as you work hard throughout this workbook to become whole and complete.

Many people do not understand how to get out of the hurt cycle. I admonish you to read the book Church Hurts Can Make You Bitter or Better: You Choose!, which will show you how to triumph over hurts, regardless of their source, and then you can use this corresponding workbook to address your issues.

Many of you can confess that now is the time to move on from where you are to where you need to be. No matter who offended you or what kind of hurt you suffered, you must move on. No longer, allow the enemy of your soul to keep you in this holding pattern. Pray, acknowledge, forgive, apologize, and say goodbye. The time to move on is now!

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In His Image
$41.65

You’ve heard the overwhelming statistics. You’ve probably felt compassion, guilt, powerlessness, hopelessness. You might have given money, food, clothes, or even some of your time to help a few of the billions of people living in destitution in our world. But have you actually engaged with someone, another human being created in the image of God, who is dying in the arms of poverty?

Andy Matheson, Oasis International Director, argues that we can only begin to understand poverty, its effects, and possible solutions when we focus on the truth that all people are made in God’s image. God calls us to meet with the poor not primarily to offer services or to develop programs, but to develop relationships and to show God’s love.

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Welcome Speeches For Today
$10.99

Welcome Speeches for Today can be used by laypeople asked to make welcome speeches for a variety of situations and events in the church. Sample speeches and prayers are included that can be used as a prototype for creating a personal welcome speech.

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Church Must Die
$24.98

For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, And hewn themselves cisterns-broken cisterns that can hold no water.
Jeremiah 2:13

The modern church, to its very core, is wrong. It is not what it was supposed to be.

Today church is a “thing”…it’s an organization, a building, an institution…something never intended by Christ.

In the early church the power of the Holy Spirit operated in abundance and the world was changed. Over the 2000 years since, we have traded the glory of God for an institution, traded His power for our own, and traded His church for a sad counterfeit.

It’s time to wake up and see ourselves for what we’ve become. This is not a revolution, not even a revival. This is a breaking. This is death to all we have become, that we might return to what is real.

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1st Yes : Rediscovering The Integrity Of The Call To Preach
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SKU (ISBN): 9781609572853ISBN10: 1609572858Kenneth JamesBinding: Trade PaperPublished: June 2010Publisher: Xulon Press Print On Demand Product

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Loving The Church
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Loving the Church reminds us how glorious God’s family really is, and the countless ways that you can flourish within it. In recent years the family has experienced a revival within Christian culture, but with this increased emphasis on the importance of the family, less value has been placed on God’s family, the church. Loving the Church explains the importance of God’s family and explores the beauty and joy of being a member of the household of God.

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Breakout Churches : Discover How To Make The Leap
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In Thom Rainer’s latest book, he sets out to discover how churches that were once healthy but had stagnated in growth have broken out to become great churches impacting lives and entire communities.

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Resurrection Of Ministry
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IVP Print On Demand Title

This book takes us deep into the practice of ministry showing us the basis of ministry in the hope of Christ’s resurrection. Ministry in and with Christ takes place in the mood of Holy Saturday, that is, between Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection, between the times. We find Christ’s real joy and hope in the midst of struggles, difficulties and even suffering as we serve and minister in his name.This book takes us deep into the practice of ministry showing us the basis of ministry in the hope of Christ’s resurrection. Ministry in and with Christ takes place in the mood of Holy Saturday, that is, between Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection, between the times. We find Christ’s real joy and hope in the midst of struggles, difficulties and even suffering as we serve and minister in his name.

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Guide To Spiritual And Economic Empowerment
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This project is the result of a study on economic and spiritual empowerment in the black church. This topic began with a focus group in the Doctor of Ministry program at United Theological Seminary, led by mentors Drs. Lewis V. Baldwin and Victor Anderson. One of the major hindrances to the economic empowerment of the black church and community is economic management.

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Field Guide To U S Congregations (Expanded)
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In 2001 the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) conducted the U.S. Congregational Life Survey. More than 1.2 million worshipers and 12,000 congregations across three continents were surveyed to provide a portrait of congregational life. The findings were published in the first edition of A Field Guide to U.S. Congregations.
With the completion of the 2008 survey comes an expanded edition of this invaluable reference with new findings; updated statistics, tables, and cartoons; a new chapter describing changes in congregational life; and chapter summaries focusing on the implications of the 2008 survey.

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Repo : The Church In Foreclosure
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Repo is a wake-up call to pastors with a growing sense of isolation and irrelevance; silently maintaining their sanctuaries, trapped in the industry of church, they simply wait retirement or hope for Christ’s return. The USA is gripped by a recession unlike any since the ’30s, its financial and political institutions guilty of enabling unsustainable debt while its pulpits proclaim prosperity. Could we be living in the era referenced in Revelation 5:5-14, the Lamb soon to “repo” His church?

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Silent Church
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Mr. Brock’s latest release, his ninth Christian book, is currently receiving high praise from the Christian community as a book that spells out the role of the church in the moral decay of our government and our society today. In 1954, a little-known law was pushed through Congress by Lyndon B. Johnson which has impacted the freedom of all Christians by silencing our churches. This book discusses the history of how this law came to be, where we are today, and what the future holds.

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Bible In Action
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The Bible In Action is a collection of 59 Bible dramas for church, Christian school, and home. It uses the dialogue in the Bible (KJV updated), presents the narrative as dialogue, and fills in the gaps with what might have happened in between the lines. These dramas, which provide literature weekly for more than a year, are arranged in historical order with Scripture reference and are available at a fraction of the cost of most literature for a quarter. They are simply the Bible in dialogue.

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Kingdom Experiment Youth Edition
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The people are starting to catch on. There s this guy who has spent his life working in his dad s wood shop, making beds, stools, and some real nice end tables. But, around the age of thirty he gets to thinking a career change is necessary. Only problem is he wants a position that is seemingly already filled, the job of priest. Doesn t stop him. Call him an entrepreneur of sorts, cause he begins preaching and healing in ways no one has ever seen without the employment of the temple. And to top it all off, he starts collecting a good fan base lots of people begin showing up to all his public appearances.

One day, he climbs up on a mountain and says there is a new kingdom at hand, and that this kingdom will be contradictory to everything they have known before.

And the people get the feeling this is only the beginning. You see, they were expecting a king arriving in grand fashion, but instead they got a carpenter, turned speaker and healer, who was about to shake things up a bit.

The Kingdom Experiment is a challenge to live this kingdom intentionally. It won t be easy. And it may get uncomfortable. But if you commit to live what a carpenter started 2000 years ago, you too will experience the kingdom He spoke of.

How it works:

1. Read and discuss each chapter with your group
2. Pick one of eight experiments (challenges to live intentionally) to do throughout the week.
3. Journal your thoughts and experiences
4. Share your experiences as a group the following week

The point of The Kingdom Experiment is community. And to share stories while we re at it. To grapple with what good news means in the context of this specific time and place. The Kingdom Experiment is an 8-week challenge, but who says it has to end there. Journey with your students through 8 weeks of the beatitudes. With both community and individual challenges each week, this study helps students engage the kingdom in every aspect of their lives.

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Unleashing The Word
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This book-and-DVD collaboration from a gifted Bible narrator and an award-winning writer shows how churches can train their laypeople to “unleash the Word of God” while reading the Scriptures, whether during worship, in small groups, or at home. Straightforward and culturally relevant, it helps people proclaim the Bible in a way that communicates its life-changing power!

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Uncovering Church Cliques And Finding Faithful Friends
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Was Jesus cliquish? If not, why did He spend so much time with Peter, James, and John? How can you identify cliques in the church and distinguish between clique members and faithful friends? For too long, the subject of cliques has been overlooked and brushed aside in the body of Christ. In Uncovering Church Cliques and Finding Faithful Friends, Kevin Sturdivant takes a comprehensive look at the problem of cliques, gives you inspired information on how to overcome the diabolical influence cliques can have, and explains the personalities you should look for in finding friends who live up to Biblical standards. You can be free from the pressures of cliques and find faithful friends! This book will show you how.

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Growing The Church In The Power Of The Holy Spirit
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This biblically grounded book asserts that many leaders overlook the necessary precondition of discerning and cooperating with the empowering will of the Holy Spirit before putting their programs and activities into action. It is a highly practical guide for nurturing relations between believers and the Spirit, in order to better advance the Kingdom of God.

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Introducing The Missional Church (Reprinted)
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Many pastors and church leaders have heard the term “missional” but have only a vague idea of what it means, let alone why it might be important to them. But what does it actually mean? What does a missional church look like and how does it function? Two leading voices in the missional movement here provide an accessible introduction, showing readers how the movement developed, why it’s important, and how churches can become more missional.
Introducing the Missional Church demonstrates that ours is a post-Christian culture, making it necessary for church leaders to think like missionaries right here at home. Focusing on a process that allows a church to discern its unique way of being missional, it guides readers on a journey that will lead them to implement a new set of missional practices in their churches. The authors demonstrate that living missionally is about discerning and joining God’s work in the world in order to be a witness to God’s kingdom on earth.

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Teologa De La Salsa – (Spanish)
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La Teologia de la Salsa: Rumba, postmodernidad & evangelio contiene doce ensayos que resenan y critican canciones tradicionales de “Salsa,” la musica tropical afro-caribena. Cada ensayo combina critica social, analisis biblico y reflexion teologica, entrelazados con la biografia del autor. El libro termina con una reflexion sobre el lugar de la musica popular en la reflexion teologica. Este libro, prologado por el cantante Tony Vega, es un testimonio de fe que busca hablar al corazon de todos los “salseros.”

La Teologia de la Salsa: Rumba, postmodernidad & evangelio contains twelve essays that review and critique standard songs of the genre called “Salsa,” which is tropical Afrocuban music. Each essay blends social commentary, biblical analysis and theological reflection, weaved with the author’s biography. The conclusion of the book is a theological reflection about the place of popular music in theological reflection. This book, which prologue was written by the renowned Salsa singer Tony Vega, is a testimony of faith that intends to speak to the heart of all “salseros.””

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Common Roots : The Original Call To An Ancient Future Faith
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Robert Webber’s legacy testifies to the vitality evangelicals experience when insights of the early church inform community life and ministry. His original expression of this theme, presented here with a foreword by David Neff (director of the Robert E. Webber Center for an Ancient-Evangelical Future), promises to stimulate new and ongoing conversations about ancient-future faith.

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Many Parts One Body
$38.60

Property issues will be major topic of debate at 2009 Episcopal General Convention

Clear, concise information on the legal structure and governance of the Episcopal Church

Debunks misinformation about Episcopal governance promulgated on conservative blogs and publications

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Ignite : How To Spark Immediate Growth In Your Church (Reprinted)
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Ignite is the ultimate how-to book for church leaders who want to reach more people for Jesus Christ. Pastor and founder of Church Leader Insights, Nelson Searcy, will provide practical, inventive guidelines for bringing first-time guests through the doors.

This book sets forth a step-by-step, biblically grounded, proven plan for creating immediate church growth by utilizing a “Big Day” to mobilize the church for evangelism. This user-friendly guide will show church leaders what they need to do to reach the unchurched in their communities and break through the debilitating growth barriers that are holding them back.

Through the inspiration of testimonies and stories, combined with the down-to-earth, applicable teaching that Searcy readers have come to expect and appreciate, Ignite will give church leaders the tools they desperately need to reach and keep modern-minded, unchurched people to create and sustain growth momentum.

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Multi Site Church Roadtrip
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The multi-site church movement is reshaping the way we do church. But how does it actually work? And is it right for your church? Enjoy a guided tour of multi-site churches across America and see for yourself how churches are growing and reaching their communities. This companion to The Multi-Site Church Revolution gives you on-site pictures of the new and creative ways churches are expanding their impact through multiple locations.

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Cinco Practicas De Congregacio – (Spanish)
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People are searching for a church shaped and sustained by Radical Hospitality, Passionate Worship, Intentional Faith Development, Risk-Taking Mission and Service, and Extravagant Generosity. These fundamental practices, now available in Spanish, are critical to the success of congregations. Their presence and strength demonstrate congregational health, vitality, and fruitfulness. By repeating and improving these practices, churches fulfill their mission to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world.

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Apostolic Congregation : Church Growth Reconceived For A New Generation
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A church in the heart of Manhattan and a congregation among the Inuit people of Northern Canada would seem to have little in common with one another. Yet in one way they are surprisingly similar: They are both apostolic congregations, churches whose every program exists for the purpose of presenting the gospel to non-Christians, and making disciples of Jesus Christ.

What is the secret of churches like these; how have they learned to make evangelism central to everything they do? In studying apostolic congregations around the world, George G. Hunter III has discovered a set of perspectives and practices that they all share. With the passion and insight for which he is so well known, Hunter demonstrates how your congregation can learn to focus on the one thing that most matters: bringing people into a saving relationship with Jesus Christ.

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Go To Jail
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Go to Jail! is a call for Christians worldwide to take the mission of Christ outside the walls of the church.

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Jesus Me Convence Pero No La I – (Spanish)
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An overview of the six most common objections emerging generations have with church and Christianity along with the biblical answers to these objections and examples of how churches are facing this challenge.

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Taking Your Church To The Next Level (Reprinted)
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All local churches experience a predictable life cycle of growth and decline. But if a church is on a downward trend, how can it turn around? Taking Your Church to the Next Level explains the impact of age and size on churches and outlines the improvements that must be made at each point for a church to remain fruitful and faithful to its mission. McIntosh deftly describes the cycles of fruitfulness and the importance of continual improvement to diminish destructive forces that keep a congregation from its mission. Church leaders, pastors, and all who care about the church and desire to see it experience biblical growth will benefit from the sage wisdom offered in these pages.

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Team Jesus : Planting Churches The Master’s Way
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Church planting is best taught by church planters and Paul Kim is one of the best. Over the last thirty years, he has led the churches of which he has been pastor to start twenty-five churches in the United States, Korea, Japan, Central Asia, and East Asia. Of the twenty-five, twenty-two are still alive and well, an almost unheard of survival rate in church planting annuals. Kim attributes this success to planting churches the “Jesus way,” using teams composed of “homegrown workers” who are trained and mentored by the mother church to plant daughter churches. While his primary focus has been on multicultural church planting, the principles Kim has learned both from his experience and from his study of how the Master began the first church are applicable in any church planting endeavor. For Kim, church planting is not theory but a divine mandate. This book reveals his heart and clearly spells out the Master’s plan for church planting.

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Discovering Church Planting
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In Discovering Church Planting, J. D. Payne explores the biblical, historical and missiological principles of global church planting as well as unfolding practical strategies for confronting contemporary challenges to our vital task in reaching a lost world.

This comprehensive introduction to church planting shows the reader how to apply effective, international church planting practices to specific contexts. J. D. speaks from personal experience, research and training and focuses on crucial issues every planter should consider. His well researched and easy to understand concepts are crucial for anyone who takes seriously the call of Scripture to Declare His glory among the nations and His marvelous deeds to all peoples.

CONTENTS
Section I: Discovering Biblical and Theological Foundations
Section II: Discovering Missiological Principles
Section III: Discovering Historical Paradigms
Section IV: Discovering Contemporary Issues

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Conflict Management And Resolution For Churches – (Other Language)
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Building mature congregations through relationship development.

This book provides the biblical view of the conflict in general and the biblical ways of conflict managements and resolution.

“To build a mature community through relationship development”

Chapter 1. Basic Understanding of the Relationship Development

*Even God experiences conflicts? Biblical understanding of conflict
*God’s way of relationship development – From conflict to maturity

Chapter 2. Structure of Conflict and Reconciliation

*Structure of Conflict 1 – Causes, Facilitators, and Symptoms
*Structure of Conflict 2 – Symptoms of each stage of conflict development
*Structure of Reconciliation 1 – Causes, Facilitators, and Symptoms
*Structure of Reconciliation 2 – Human Needs and Degrees of Satisfaction

Chapter 3. Structure of Relationship and Dialogue

*Structure of Relationship and Dialogue
*Structure of the Word of God – Story of the Salvation of Humans

Chapter 4. Relationship Development and Understanding of Human Emotion

*How to detach you feeling from facts
*What should I do when I am angry? Understanding of Anger and Anger Management
*Emotional Flow of a healthy community

Chapter 5. Steps of Relationship Development

*Overlook, Denial, and Direct Conversation
*Mediation
*Emotional Detachment
*Church Law
*Reconciliation

Chapter 6. Forgiveness

*God’s Forgiveness and Human Forgiveness
*Steps for the Forgiveness
*Apology – Language of Apology
*Cross – Language of Love

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Transitional Ministry : A Time Of Opportunity
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Multi-denominational look at transitional ministry

Professional resource for local and national judicatory leaders, local congregational leaders, clergy

Transition is the word we use to describe the time following significant change. In congregations, that change might be the departure of the pastor, a catastrophe such as Hurrican Katrina or 9/11, or simply the changes caused by growth. Transition calls for clergy with special training to respond to the needs generated by the special time. “Task, training, and time limit” are the hallmarks of transitional ministry. Trained intentional interim clergy must have the skill and experience to lead congregations during transition.

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Deacon Relationships Through The Body Of Christ
$21.23

Be the leader God intended you to be! Churches often elect deacons and fail to give them the training they need to accomplish their task, assuming that if one is qualified to become a deacon, he doesn’t need training. This assumption has proven injurious both to the individual deacon and to the body of Christ. Dr. Ledbetter is one of the most qualified leaders in the Southern Baptist Convention to assist deacons in becoming the leader God intended them to be. As a pastor, he worked with deacons in four growing churches. Since entering evangelism in January 1984, he has conducted several hundred deacon retreats in both small and large churches across America, in addition to conducting revivals. To be an effective leader, a deacon must have a right relationship with Christ, his family, his church, his pastor, and with himself. This book discusses each of these relationships and provides spiritual insights that will help not only deacons, but every Christian leader to become all God intended them to be.

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Hybrid Church In The City
$45.00

There has been a growing interest in the rapidly evolving nature of cities in the past 10-15 years, but especially in the last 5 years, and the profound impact this is having upon our understanding of community, belonging and church. This book shows that theology in an urban context has developed way beyond the inner-city nostaligia. It is a challenging, critical and constructive study of the role of the church in cities.

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Next Evangelicalism : Freeing The Church From Western Cultural Captivity
$24.99

Table Of Contents
Introduction
Part I: The Western, White Cultural Captivity Of The Church
1: Individualism: The Heartbeat Of Western, White Cultural Captivity
2: Consumerism And Materialism: The Soul Of Western, White Cultural Captivity
3: Racism: The Residue Of Western, White Cultural Captivity

Part II: The Pervasiveness Of The White Captivity Of The Church
4: The Church Growth Movement And Megachurches
5: The Emergent Church?s Captivity To Western, White Culture
6: The Cultural Imperialism Of The White Captivity Of The Church

Part III: Freedom From The White Captivity Of The Church
7: Suffering And Celebration: Learning From The African American And Native American Communities
8: Holistic Evangelism: Learning From The Immigrant Church
9: A Multicultural Worldview: Learning From The Second Generation

Conclusion

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Soong-Chan Rah calls the North American church to escape its Western cultural captivity and to embody a next evangelicalism that is diverse and multiethnic. This prophetic minority report casts a vision for a dynamic evangelicalism that fully embodies the cultural realities of the twenty-first century.

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Biblical Christianity : From Man Centered To A Christ Centered Church
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The need to redefine Christianity and the purpose of the church has continued to attract the attention of concerned Christian preachers and authors. This is more so as the central message of the gospel as the power of God for the transformation of a believer’s life has given way to humanistic philosophy and an emphasis on this worldly. In this book, Dr. Oshin takes a critical look at the church, highlighting what he perceives as wrong teachings in the church. The book is a call to believers to rediscover the gospel of Jesus Christ, and His kingdom principles. It is a call for paradigm shift – a shift from emphasis on this worldly to biblical Christianity.

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