Church Growth and Revival

David Clark argues that the gifts of the kingdom community – life, liberation, love, learning and servant leadership – are already present and acti...

It was a story Jesus liked to tell. If a man owned a hundred sheep and one of them wandered away, he would, without hesitation, leave the ninety-ni...

The Transforming Church is a programme aimed at creating vibrant churches and communities. The course materials consist of a guidebook for leaders ...

Clarify the win. The Church has been run in much the same way for decades. We’ve run programs, services, built buildings and run conferences. But h...

The explosion of the church in Nigeria is phenomenal, with a forward momentum that is as remarkable as the missionary optimism of the first century...

This is the remarkable story of Fountain of Life, a Church of England missionary congregation in rural Norfolk. From its pioneering conception thir...

Church planting has become a cottage industry. National conferences, hip planting organizations, and all-in-one resource kits celebrate the thrill ...

Planting a church is one of the most exciting adventures you'll ever embark on. It's also one of the hardest. It requires initiative, leadership, s...

Scotland has arguably the most varied, colourful and longstanding history of evangelical revivals in the world. Focusing on the period between 1527...

Insights from the Lives of Olive Doke and Paul Kasonga for Pioneer Mission and Church Planting Today deals with the question of the hand over proce...

In Discovering Church Planting, J. D. Payne explores the biblical, historical and missiological principles of global church planting as well as unf...

What makes a local church healthy? What doctrines or practices are foundational to a healthy church? What role, if any, does preaching play? Do goo...

Winner of the Distinguished Book Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion The Emerging Church Movement (ECM) is a creative, ent...

Evangelical Christians in many countries shy away from politics. And yet, especially with the rise of the Pentecostal and charismatic movements, th...

Marks of a Movement calls us back to the disciple-making mandate of the church through the timeless wisdom of John Wesley and the Methodist movemen...

You know people around the world are struggling. A homeless man holds a sign that reads, “Anything helps.” A poor child lives in a slum swarming wi...

Based on years of experience as a pastor and professor of theology, John Leith reflects on the dilemma of the church today as primarily "a crisis o...

Calm provides United Methodist church leaders with the skills and tools to shepherd local churches through times of conflict and tension, including...

When church and culture look the same... For the many Christians eager to prove we can be both holy and cool, cultural pressures are too much. We ...

Neil Cole's best-selling book Organic Church described the fastest growing segment of contemporary Christianity-the so-called organic church. Now i...

Two of the world’s foremost church research experts take an unprecedented qualitative look at how churches can change the culture through the trans...

Preacher and teacher David Mosser offers practical and spiritual guidance for pastors struggling to manage and respond to changes in the economy, c...

It's not enough to plant individual churches in isolation from each other. The spiritual need and opportunity of our cities is too big for any one ...

To Transform a City is a valuable guide for those who dream big about the spiritual and social changes possible for the cities and towns that surro...

Are you tired of hearing people dismiss the church as an irrelevant relic? (Do you secretly wonder if they are right?) Don Everts explores an excit...

Years ago, the Lord spoke these words to international Bible teacher Derek Prince, author of the acclaimed book Shaping History Through Prayer and ...

Public gatherings are vital for movement, but too often in our approach to planting churches, we haven't paid enough attention to the difficult gra...

A theologically grounded, yet practical, user-friendly guide for church leaders seeking to save their churches. A methodical, logical approach for ...

The most devastating experience of God’s people in the Old Testament was the exile. But rather than being destroyed by their circumstances they eme...

Many of us believe revival is possible, but sometimes it feels so far away - we hear of astonishing accounts from across the world or read about re...

Our world has changed dramatically in the past quarter century. People are losing faith in technology. Our society has lost consensus and is dividi...

Ministry training often emphasizes expanding on the work of existing ministries to the neglect of addressing the difficulties of planting new churc...

God's mission needs movement leaders. Jesus pioneered something completely new in human history - a dynamic missionary movement intent on reaching ...

Based on a national study, this book shows how churches can move both new and old members into ministry by implementing effective new members' clas...

This is only the third time in the history of the church that both the mission field and the way we communicate with that mission field have change...

Some churches grow rapidly, only to hit a ceiling. Other churches have experienced declining or static attendance--many of them for decades. Frustr...

With nearly fifty years combined global church-planting experience, Craig Ott and Gene Wilson offer here a comprehensive, up-to-date guide for cros...

This book is a practical and encouraging 'how-to guide' for turning vision into reality and managing church growth. Tricia Neill draws on more than...

Is the Church out for the count? ... or ready for a rebirth?This is not yet another book about surviving lockdown, it is about possibilities that ...

Leaders who are interested in planting or revitalizing congregations often feel discouraged and defeated after leadership conferences, or after rea...

Hope and help for pastors and congregations who are asking, What now? And What’s next? Some pastors and congregations have managed remarkable innov...

The Apostle Paul was a veteran church planter who "laid a foundation like a wise and master builder" and there is much we can learn from his exampl...

Access to education has long been a priority for Americans. Full access to formal schooling is a symbol of freedom, a gateway to opportunity and re...

A critical assessment of church planting strategies and practices, offering a biblical, theological and historical foundation for this component of...