Energizing the Congregation

Energizing the Congregation
Author: Carl S. Dudley
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 136
Release: 1993-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780664253592

Dudley and Johnson show how churches are revitalized by claiming the symbols that best articulate self-identity. They describe five images of churches' relationships to their communities over time--the survivor, prophet, pillar, pilgrim, and servant styles--found in a wide variety of congregations and situations.

Christendom Awake

Christendom Awake
Author: Aidan Nichols
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 278
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780567086730

Aidan Nichols shows how recovering the Church's traditional mission will re-energise its witness in such areas as philosophy, ethics, aesthetics, the family, economics, gender relations, and politics. Providing insight into the forces of mainstream culture, this volume will enlighten and embolden all those concerned for the renewal of Christendom in today's world.

Living Your Strengths

Living Your Strengths
Author: Don Clifton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2004-10-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1595620028

"Living Your Strengths" shows readers how to use their innate gifts to enrichtheir faith communities, how to identify and affirm their talents, and how touse them for growth and service.

Energizing Children's Ministry in the Smaller Church

Energizing Children's Ministry in the Smaller Church
Author: Rick Chromey
Publisher: Standard Publishing
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2008
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780784721926

Energizing Chilren's Ministry in the Smaller Church helps you with your smaller church chilren's ministry make a huge and mega impaact. Part of the ESCN product line.

Congregations

Congregations
Author: Carl Ellis Nelson
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1988-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780804216012

C. Ellis Nelson has collaborated with and collected the works of ten leaders experienced in congregational affairs to design and produce a resource that helps ministers and lay leaders understand the dynamics of congregations. The result is an engaging collection that will help pastors and church leaders invigorate their congregations.

The Five Smooth Stones

The Five Smooth Stones
Author: Robertson McQuilken
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2007
Genre: Church
ISBN: 0805445188

A veteran pastor and university president urges ministries to center themselves entirely on five princples: the Bible, the Congregation, the Spirit, the Plan of Redemption, and the Lord Jesus.

Finding Voice

Finding Voice
Author: William B. Kincaid
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2012-11-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1621899179

In Finding Voice, Kincaid employs an often used but somewhat elusive metaphor, "voice," as a way of speaking of pastoral identity and contends that a lively, imaginative pastoral voice emerges from a thorough grasp of context, theology, pastoral roles, personal journey, and systemic dynamics. Designed as a text for the field education, contextual education, and supervised ministry experiences of seminary students and others preparing for congregational leadership, Finding Voice examines in depth how people are experiencing each of these constituent parts of pastoral voice at their student ministry sites not only to learn about each of the areas, but also to recognize and understand what is being called forth in the students as they engage these five key experiences and begin to visualize their future ministry. The book further explores the opportunities created when the five aspects of pastoral identity are in conflict with one another. In the absence of any one of these or the imbalance of them, pastoral voice gets skewed, and vibrant, effective ministry is undermined. Finding Voice urges students to begin now, with field education, to engage a practice of ministry that is imaginative, courageous, nimble, and faithful.

Multi-Congregational Ministry

Multi-Congregational Ministry
Author: Malcolm Grundy
Publisher: Canterbury Press
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2015-06-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1848257910

Local church life is changing radically and patterns of clergy training and deployment with it. Multi-congregational groupings are increasingly the norm with fewer stipendiary clergy and greater reliance on self-supporting and lay ministry. Meanwhile some aspects of priestly ministry are being carried out by specialist practitioners such as missioners working across a number of parishes. All of this raises questions about how we understand, prepare for and practice ministry and leadership in the church today. As ministry increasingly becomes the responsibility of the local congregation and priesthood more about supervision, this key book explores the theology of such a model and how it is beginning to work in practice, drawing insights gained from rural ministry which has pioneered advances in multi-congregation ministry settings.

The Chest of Visions: New Pathways ‘cross Broken Highways

The Chest of Visions: New Pathways ‘cross Broken Highways
Author: Tim Ferguson
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2020-08-21
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1725279592

Alex, a troubled youth from Earth, travels to the world of Caperston via a wormhole in hopes of resolving his struggles. He meets a messiah, who preaches equality amongst the "Haves" and "Have nots" in Caperston, and his youth followers. Alex finds himself enmeshed in the challenges of their world. The youth, while asking for equality, are attacked as they march to see the Ruler. Alex steps in to stop the carnage but tensions are ready to explode. A short time later the messiah is arrested. Great drama follows over an eighteen-month period. Alex, hearing from Earth friends, isn't sure whether he should return home. Is it even possible? The book concludes with ten pages of activities for Christian youth leaders to use, when discussing the events taking place in the story. Themes of forgiveness and prayer are highlighted.