The Church Revitalization Checklist

The Church Revitalization Checklist
Author: Sam Rainer
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2022-01-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1496454421

Your church has the opportunity of a lifetime. The world has shifted, and a new, brighter tomorrow awaits. The Church Revitalization Checklist is a tool to help you start fresh, leverage your strengths, and discover hidden opportunities for church growth. God has placed you exactly where He wants you. But let’s be honest, if you’re leading a church, it isn’t easy. Maybe your church has been in the doldrums for years. Maybe you’re hearing a lot of complaints, and you’re simply tired or disheartened. Maybe you’ve been hurt. But you are not alone. Many church leaders have sore backs from carrying a heavy load. This book will lighten that load. The Church Revitalization Checklist provides a step-by-step path to a hope-filled future for both you and your church. Popular church expert Sam Rainer will walk you and your leadership team through a seven-point checklist—everything from reconsidering your priorities to evaluating your location and facilities. It is an extremely practical tool to unleash your congregation and help them step into God’s unique purpose for them. Your brighter future starts now.

The Post-Quarantine Church

The Post-Quarantine Church
Author: Thom S. Rainer
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2020-09-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1496452771

A trustworthy and respected guide for pastors and church leadership in the post-quarantine world, providing hope and vision for the future of your congregation. From thousands of surveys of church leaders and in-person consultations, Thom Rainer and his Church Answers team have gathered the essential wisdom you will need to face the challenges and opportunities that the quarantine crisis creates for the local church, including: New and better ways to lead the gathered church A wide-open door for growing the digital church A moment to rethink the facilities New strategies for church growth . . . and much more! This book is, in effect, your personal church consultant, helping you plan and prepare for the future. In the midst of heartbreak, tragedy, and struggle due to Covid-19, here’s hope, wisdom, encouragement and vision. This book is valuable for those looking for local church and pastor resources to enhance church leadership, grow your church, and serve digital and online church communities in the post-quarantine world. As a former pastor and founder of Church Answers, Thom S. Rainer is intimately familiar with the ever-present demands that pastors face. He has spent a lifetime committed to the growth and health of the local church.

Better Together

Better Together
Author: Jim Tomberlin
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2012-04-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1118131304

Thousands of Protestant churches are perplexed by plateaued or declining attendance, while other congregations nearby thrive. Is there a way for them to combine forces, drawing on both their strengths, in ways that also increase their missional impact? Church merger consultant Jim Tomberlin, with co-writer Warren Bird, makes the case that mergers today work best not with two struggling churches but with a vital, momentum-filled lead church partnering with a joining church. In this new book, they provide a complete, practical, hands-on guide for church leaders of both struggling and vibrant churches so that they can understand the issues, develop strategies, and execute a variety of forms of merger for church expansion and renewal to reinvigorate declining churches and give them a "second life."

Side Door

Side Door
Author: Charles Arn
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780898277005

Author and church-growth expert Charles Arn reveals how vital congregations are good at empowering their people to pursue their unique strengths. It is by discovering the passions of its individual insiders that a church can creatively and effectively draw the outsiders into its fellowship and into Jesus. This book is crucial not only for a church's leadership, but for all motivated members who have a vision for engaging more of their local body in relevant ministry. See how God has been drawing believers out of the pews, through their church's walls, and directly into their communities by way of their side doors. God is using his people to make disciples, and they are actually loving it! FREE downloads available, including Planning Guide, Assessment Charts, Congregational Survey, discussion guide, and more!

Economic Empowerment Through the Church

Economic Empowerment Through the Church
Author: Gregory J. Reed
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1994
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780310489511

This practical book shows churches how to become a forge for revitalization in the community by means of "economic empowerment"--by becoming involved in the everyday economic life of their communities.

Rubicons of Revitalization: Overcoming 8 Common Barriers to Church Renewal

Rubicons of Revitalization: Overcoming 8 Common Barriers to Church Renewal
Author: Kenneth Priest
Publisher: The Replant
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2018-10-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781732229167

Are you ready to experience turnaround in your church? Before Julius Caesar became the undisputed ruler of the Roman Empire, he and his army had to make an irrevocable decision--to cross the river Rubicon. Likewise, in the work of church revitalization there are barriers your church must resolve to cross, knowing that once you do you can never look back. In Rubicons of Revitalization, Mark Clifton and Kenneth Priest outline eight of the most common barriers to church renewal and, more importantly, how to cross them with courage and wisdom. If you are ready to lead revitalization in your church, this resource is for you. Your church can experience turnaround. Will you wade into the waters with them?

A Fish Out of Water

A Fish Out of Water
Author: George Barna
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2006-03-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1418560766

Available for the first time in paperback, Barna unveils the results of years of research and hundreds of interviews, and emerges with a new definition of what leadership is--and isn't.

Autopsy of a Deceased Church

Autopsy of a Deceased Church
Author: Thom S. Rainer
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2014
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 143368392X

Best-selling author of Simple Church and the runaway hit I am a Church Member, Thom Rainer uses his twenty-five years of experience helping churches grow and reverse the trends of decline to expose twelve lessons on how to keep your church alive!

The Church Revitalization ChecklistThe Church Revitalization Checklist

The Church Revitalization ChecklistThe Church Revitalization Checklist
Author: Sam Rainer
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2022
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1496454405

Your church has the opportunity of a lifetime. The world has shifted, and a new, brighter tomorrow awaits. The Church Revitalization Checklist is a tool to help you start fresh, leverage your strengths, and discover hidden opportunities for church growth. God has placed you exactly where He wants you. But let's be honest, if you're leading a church, it isn't easy. Maybe your church has been in the doldrums for years. Maybe you're hearing a lot of complaints, and you're simply tired or disheartened. Maybe you've been hurt. But you are not alone. Many church leaders have sore backs from carrying a heavy load. This book will lighten that load. The Church Revitalization Checklist provides a step-by-step path to a hope-filled future for both you and your church. Popular church expert Sam Rainer will walk you and your leadership team through a seven-point checklist--everything from reconsidering your priorities to evaluating your location and facilities. It is an extremely practical tool to unleash your congregation and help them step into God's unique purpose for them. Your brighter future starts now.

The Seven Pillars of Church Revitalization and Renewal

The Seven Pillars of Church Revitalization and Renewal
Author: Tom Cheyney
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2016-08-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9780990781660

The hard reality in North America is that most churches and most if not all denominations are in a state of decline. The membership within these churches and denominations are plateauing and what used to pass for involvement and activity within churches is deteriorating. While all of this is happening, the rank and file of the church appears powerless to assemble the strength that is needed to get the churches growing again.