This practical guide will help you identify your church’s strengths and weaknesses, discovering what action to take to improve its health. Focusing on the quality of your church’s life rather than just the numbers attending, and avoiding ‘quick-fix’ solutions, Robert Warren offers a realistic and positive process for revitalizing your church, helping you assess your parish against the seven marks of a healthy church. The goal is nothing less than encountering the reality of God’s presence in and through the life of your church. The material is fully road-tested and has been used in local churches across the UK and beyond.
The long-awaited sequel to the bestselling Healthy Churches' Handbook, this new volume will help you implement tried and tested approaches for healthy church growth in your parish.
This is more than a step-by-step plan to mimic; it’s a biblical blueprint for pastors, elders, and anyone committed to the church’s vitality.
Yet it is in the weakness (as long as we admit it and turn to God in it) that God and new beginnings are found. In writing about the Beatitudes47 I was ... introduced a monthly All-Age Worship. The congregation seemed to adjust quite ...
This is a handbook for pastors, elders, and all Christians who want to see how Scripture presents the process of discipline that should operate in the Christian community.
Guides 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.
This volume is part of the 9Marks: Building Healthy Churches series.
This book 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.
This all-in-one guide is designed to better equip clergy and the church leaders to meet their congregations' needs in a spiritually grounded and scientifically sound manner.
Challenging the church's reluctance, Dr. Laney provides a biblical, practical and loving handbook for pastors and lay leaders alike on church discipline.
Revised introductory brochure for Natural Church Development