Church Growth and Revival

urrent church planting, growth, and development strategies cannot be sustained. We need to work smarter in our rapidly changing world. We must beco...

‘It is only a matter of time before declining churches will have closed their doors for good because no one sounded the alarm.’ Our culture is bec...

The growth of Spirit-empowered Christianity has been nothing short of phenomenal. From a handful of believers in the early twentieth century to ove...

John Stott's masterly distillation of sixty years' reflection on Christian discipleship ranges over the history of the church and its formative tea...

In this day when Christians and churches are widely dispersed throughout the world, the ques- tion 'Who is the church?' could easily be dismissed a...

Hebraic Church? Now there's a phrase designed to upset or confuse just about everyone. Yet being Hebraic is not what many in the Church imagines it...

In The Vine Project, Marshall and Payne provide a roadmap and resources for this sort of church–wide culture change. The book guides your ministry ...

How do we live the whole of our lives for Christ? How does being a disciple of Jesus impact our work, our leisure, our place in the community, our ...

Old Paths, New Power guides you through the essentials of sparking a spiritual renaissance and calls us back to the tried-and-true: pray and procla...

Alongside the traditional Church comes a new wave of committed Christianity. High Street Monasteries explores this incoming tide, illustrating how ...

How is your church going to grow? Will it grow by fine-tuning worship, the preaching, the Christian education programs, and the like? Or will it gr...

Since its publication in 1995, Ron Crandall’s  Turnaround Strategies for the Small Church  has become required reading for anyone striving to revit...

Provides six proven successful "mega-strategies" for bringing more people into the church. Explains why John Wesley's writings still hold valuable ...

The essays in this volume all share a common assumption: in order to know where you're going, you have to understand where you've been. If the spir...

One of the most crucial changes in North American life, Lyle E. Schaller explains, has been the shift from small to large institutions. Sixty years...

In  The Undivided Soul: Helping Congregations Connect Body and Spirit , Cheryl Kirk-Duggan offers a worship, study, and sermon planning resource co...

Thomas Edward Frank points out that the dominant paradigm of many contemporary books about church administration reflects an underlying “theology o...

The common experience of large congregations getting larger and small congregations getting smaller has given rise to the belief that growing congr...

Be the Church Jesus calls us to be. Bob Farr asserts that to change the world, we must first change the Church. As Adam Hamilton says in the Forewo...

Many Christians, disillusioned with lives of spiritual mediocrity that have been dampened by today’s rampant materialism and cafeteria spirituality...

In the parable that begins this book, a large chunk has fallen out of the roof of a historic church, exactly where an imposing mosaic of God enthro...

Churches know that if they are to reach people raised in an electronic culture, they must use the tools that this culture makes available. For peop...

In this helpful book, Kent R. Hunter provides clear, practical guidance not only on how to diagnose the difficulties a church is experiencing, but ...

For those sharing the vision of reaching out with welcoming arms and a welcoming message,  Marketing Your Church to the Community  stands ready to ...

What can sustain a church's growth over a lengthy period of time, especially across a change in senior pastors? Long, successful pastorates are cus...

This book is a companion to Webber's "Journey to Jesus" seminars, held in over 100 American cities from 2000-2003. The "seeker" model of worship p...

Here are twenty tested church-growth strategies that have been implemented by church consultant William Easum with more than 4,000 church leaders a...

There is no end to clichés and easy assumptions about congregational health and vitality. It's much easier to start a new church than turn around a...

Bill Easum and Bil Cornelius are two strikingly different, yet surprisingly similar pastors. One undertook to revitalize a moribund mainline church...

The temptation to focus only on their own internal problems and issues is powerful for congregations. Without realizing it, even churches that have...

Learn the tactics of pastors with successful, enthusiastic, growing congregations. They are playing soccer, paying bills, shopping, visiting museum...

Using the powerful imagery from Ezekiel 37, the valley of the dry bones, Kevass Harding tells how God used a faithful few to breathe new life into ...

Filling a need not previously addressed,  African American Church Growth  contends that it is the prophetic consciousness which appeals to many bla...

Hunter discusses the rebirth of the apostolic congregation, Christianity's vision of what people can become, how small groups shape an apostolic pe...

Generational differences are nothing new in church. There have always been groups and subgroups within a congregation, divided according to age. Ye...

Are you still suffering over the sight of empty pews? Have your efforts been more than exhaustive in expanding your congregation? Have you maximize...

Answers the question "Why start new churches?" and shows how to reverse the decline of new church development. Schaller offers tested advice based ...

The church is more than a building—it is an assembly of people joined together across distances and even through time to fulfill God’s purposes in ...

Ethnicity: The Inclusive Church Resource is written to help your own church to be equipped to welcome all people regardless of their ethnicity. It ...

For many church leaders, struggling to cope with internal problems, church planting does not even appear on the agenda of things to be considered. ...

Come Down, Lord! is a succinct, readable and biblically-based treatment of the vital theme of revival. Its seven short chapters go directly to the ...