Church Growth and Revival

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 ...

Are you 'evangelizing' in the wrong direction? As a church leader, you are (probably) targeting the wrong people with your ‘evangelism’ efforts. Yo...

The new methods in evangelism aggressively promoted by Charles Grandison Finney and others in the United States in the 1830s and 40s were the logic...

Sprague’s experience of genuine revivals, his faithfulness to biblical theology, and his balanced view, eminently fitted him to write what Dr. Lloy...

In this book, Jonathan Edwards enlarges and develops the arguments put forward in his The Distinguishing Marks of a Work of the Spirit of God, with...

Revival swept throughout the churches of New England and other parts of the United States between 1798 and 1808. These letters of Ebenezer Porter, ...

It is noteworthy that there are more books describing revivals than there are those that deal with their biblical basis. That may be because to rea...

Feeling caught between the traditional church and the emerging church? Discover a third way: deep church. C. S. Lewis used the phrase "deep church...

Copastors Kent Carlson and Mike Lueken tell the story of how God took their thriving, consumer-oriented church and transformed it into a modest con...

The gospel is nothing without relationship. And no one gets it like the Google Generation. God came to earth to invite us, personally, into a rela...