Let’S Change Your Church

Let’S Change Your Church
Author: John Overton
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2018-04-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1973626098

If you are a pastor and want your church to make a much bigger spiritual impact on your community, you will need to become better informed about your community and focus on improving it, rather than using your resources to increase the size of your church. You must have the blessings of God, and that is attained by obedience to God. Your priority must be to equip elders and boomers and disciple parents and students. If you are a staff member and want to change your church to have more spiritual effectiveness on her members and her community, you should boldly proclaim the need for an obedience-driven mind-set and set the pace with your personal example. If you are a layperson and want to change your church to have more spiritual impact on you, your family, and your community, start a more disciplined lifestyle by becoming Christlike and by aggressively acting on the obedience assignments in this book. All must forsake good traditional projects and focus on the bestobedience to Christ. Your church can be more active as a spiritual influence in her culture. Work to break down barriers of separation between Christian denominations, ethnicities, and economics. Download and apply the obedience assignments in the free copy of Lets Change Your Church workbook from www.equippingstudents.com.

Jesus' Death and Heavenly Offering in Hebrews

Jesus' Death and Heavenly Offering in Hebrews
Author: R. B. Jamieson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2019
Genre: Bibles
ISBN: 1108474438

Examines Hebrews' exposition of Jesus' death, his self-offering in heaven at his ascension, and the link between them.

Let It Go

Let It Go
Author: T.D. Jakes
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2013-01-29
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1416547339

Shares uplifting advice about the virtues of forgiveness, offering strategic and biblically based advice on how to achieve peace and personal fulfillment by letting go of past wrongs.

Let’S Change Your School

Let’S Change Your School
Author: John Overton
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 59
Release: 2018-06-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1973632160

We are concerned about our culture and the decline of safety and moral and ethical practices since our school days. There are many contributors to our current condition. We will, however, identify specific ways you can be a vital agent to Change the World by overcoming evil with good on your campuses. This book focuses on school(s) in your area because the Mosaics/ Millennials (ages 13 through 29) are the future of Christianity and are poorly equipped to cope with the evil and temptations with which our culture surrounds them. Though seemingly unlimited funds are being spent, school shootings, bullying, easy access to tempting drugs and alcohol, perverted sex, and failure to build good and lasting relationships have too often become the norm. Students make the best change agents on their campuses. It will only take a few committed Christian students to start a sustained spiritual revolution that will spread to other campuses and around the world.

The Church Playbook

The Church Playbook
Author: Todd Tolson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2015-08-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781725107199

An all-in-one notebook created to coach Pastors on how to jumpstart growth in their Church & break the toughest barriers they face!

Help! My Bible Is Alive!

Help! My Bible Is Alive!
Author: Nicole Unice
Publisher: NavPress
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2019
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1641580216

We want to experience God through the Bible. . . . We really do But our good intentions fall flat when reading the Bible just doesn't seem to make that happen. What should feel dynamic and important and alive often feels confusing and boring and irrelevant. But it doesn't have to. In Help My Bible is Alive , pastor and Bible teacher Nicole Unice brings life back to reading the Bible by helping you personally encounter God through his Word. With Help My Bible is Alive , you'll learn to . . . find the meaning of any portion of Scripture; apply four key questions to every passage; create valuable habits by workshopping key verses; and find practical principles as you read parables, poetry, narratives, ancient letters, and wisdom literature. Take this 30-day challenge and develop habits that will sustain a vibrant spiritual life where the Word of God is alive and active for you.

Church Transfusion

Church Transfusion
Author: Neil Cole
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2012-08-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1118238516

Just as our life is in our blood, the life for Christ’s body is in His blood. Changing a church is more than a new goal or direction. Our churches need more than an organizational transition; we need a full transfusion of Jesus' blood, His life, within every disciple. Anything less than that will only perpetuate more of the dysfunction and unhealthy church practices that have already plagued us for too long. We are in desperate need of the internally transforming power of the gospel of grace and the presence of Christ so that our salvation is then worked out in a way the rest of the world will notice. It isn’t enough that we believe in the facts contained in the gospel, we must allow the gospel itself to infect our souls and transform us from within. The DNA of Jesus' lifeblood is needed in our churches and nothing shy of a full transfusion that touches every cell will be sufficient. In this book Neil Cole (author of Organic Church, Church Transfusion and Journeys to Significance) and Phil Helfer, co-founders of Church Multiplication Associates, will first point out that change is possible with God, but only with God. In the second half of the book they will lay out some of the actual practical considerations to weigh if you want to release real organic health in your church. Using multiple examples of very different kinds of churches that have been through the process, the authors present ways that leadership and practices need to change in order to release organic church movements from their midst. Chapters cover: Leadershifts necessary Detoxification from dependence issues. How to ignite change virally. How to grandparent movements. How to measure success in movements. This book (another in the Leadership Network series) applies organic life principles to established churches with practical help that is holistic and natural. The content in this book will be helpful whether you are pastor of an established church or wanting to revitalize a small organic church. Jesus didn’t die and rise from the dead so that we can be like everyone else in the world. Our faith is more than just a better doctrine or a bigger goal with a capital giving campaign; it is a better life. Jesus is the difference, and what a difference he makes...don't be satisfied with less.

I Am Jesus, Let's Change the World

I Am Jesus, Let's Change the World
Author: Elmer Towns
Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2020-08-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0768458188

I am Jesusliving in and touching the world through My people. Jesus calls you to a life of exceptional character, reaching higher and becoming more than you ever thought you could. He invites you to be transformed, living for greater goals, motivated by greater desires, and letting the gospel light shine through you to others. And as believers grow in grace and maturity, so the local church becomes more mature and more effective in ministry. Elmer Towns challenges you through in-depth teaching and 50 days of devotional reading to be exceptional in your life and service so that you will see exponential results as you follow Jesus all the way, every day. Encounter Jesus and experience all He created you to be: A remarkable worshiperworshiping in spirit and truth. An exceptional believer with extraordinary faith that moves mountains. A compassionate minister of healing, love, and grace. A devoted member of the church bodyglorifying the Father in heaven. A visible testimony to the saved and lostdrawing others to salvation. Exponential revival is God pouring out an abundance of power and energy on His people in His church, so the Good News is carried to all available people, through all available methods, at all available times, giving abundant glory to God.

Who Moved My Pulpit?

Who Moved My Pulpit?
Author: Thom S. Rainer
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2016-06-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 143364388X

Who Moved My Pulpit? may not be the exact question you’re asking. But you’re certainly asking questions about change in the church—where it’s coming from, why it’s happening, and how you’re supposed to hang on and follow God through it—even get out ahead of it so your church is faithfully meeting its timeless calling and serving the new opportunities of this age. Based on conversations with thousands of pastors, combined with on-the-ground research from more than 50,000 churches, best-selling author Thom S. Rainer shares an eight-stage roadmap to leading change in your church. Not by changing doctrine. Not by changing biblical foundations. But by changing methodologies and approaches for reaching a rapidly changing culture. You are the pastor. You are the church staff person. You are an elder. You are a deacon. You are a key lay leader in the church. This is the book that will equip you to celebrate and lead change no matter the cost. The time is now.

Growing Young

Growing Young
Author: Kara Powell
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2016-09-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1493405829

Unleashing the Passion of Young People in Your Church Is Possible! Churches are losing both members and vitality as increasing numbers of young people disengage. Based on groundbreaking research with over 250 of the nation's leading congregations, Growing Young provides a strategy any church can use to involve and retain teenagers and young adults. It profiles innovative churches that are engaging 15- to 29-year-olds and as a result are growing--spiritually, emotionally, missionally, and numerically. Packed with both research and practical ideas, Growing Young shows pastors and ministry leaders how to position their churches to engage younger generations in a way that breathes vitality, life, and energy into the whole church. Visit www.churchesgrowingyoung.org for more information.