The Revitalization of the Downtown Church
Author : Thomas Will Teague
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 32,92 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Church growth
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Author : Thomas Will Teague
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 32,92 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Church growth
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Author : Howard Edington
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 36,64 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780687054404
Here is the story of a man with a vision for new life in urban churches. In this book, Edington shows how to use innovation to lead a congregation to numerical, financial and spiritual success. He shows pastors in the city environment proven methods for keeping their churches alive and well despite the particular obstacles facing them in the urban landscape.
Author : Donald Graham Littlejohns
Publisher :
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 14,5 MB
Release : 1979
Category : City churches
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Author : Donna Claycomb Sokol
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : pages
File Size : 15,60 MB
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1501818899
Many urban congregations remember days of fame and fortune—days when their prominence downtown or in city neighborhoods mattered. Population shifts, the decline of congregations and neighborhoods, and demographic changes depleted the dreams of many urban churches. But not all churches gave up hope. Many congregations are struggling to survive, but thousands of urban churches are thriving again. Churches with revived hope learn to let go of nostalgic dreams and tired habits and to walk with God into a new day of vibrant mission and ministry. Donna Claycomb Sokol and Roger Owens share lessons they’ve learned on the job and from other urban pastors. Along the way, they challenge clichés about church leadership and strategic planning by showing what congregational renewal can look like and how it can become a reality. Each chapter features a set of practical guidelines for leading a congregation to address the questions that matter most. “The urban church can be quite a challenge. I know because I’ve served a couple. Now, two thoughtful pastors with actual urban church experience take an affectionate, positive, honest, and hopeful look at the urban church and give practical wisdom for the revival of languishing urban congregations. There’s a remarkable revival of the urban church in North America. Donna and Roger can help you be part of it!” —William H. Willimon, Professor of the Practice of Christian Ministry, Duke Divinity School, Duke University, Durham, NC; retired bishop, The United Methodist Church “Three things excite me most about this book: First, these two young pastors understand the strategic importance of urban ministry and are passionately committed to it. Second, they show that when you turn from tired ‘church growth’ and corporate paradigms, choosing rather to model your ministry on Jesus, new life happens. And third, they explain that transformation is about journeying faithfully with the questions rather than looking for quick-fix techniques. This book could change your ministry.” —Peter Storey, South African church leader; W. Ruth and A. Morris Williams Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the Practice of Christian Ministry, Duke Divinity School, Duke University, Durham, NC
Author : E. Michael Fleenor
Publisher :
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 18,33 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Church Street
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1112 pages
File Size : 17,67 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Income tax
ISBN :
Author : JR Woodward
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 17,96 MB
Release : 2016-07-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830893628
JR Woodward and Dan White Jr. have trained church planters all over North America. In this interactive field manual, they help you and your team gain eight key competencies crucial for church planting so that you can create churches that flourish and launch their own sustainable missional and incarnational congregations.
Author : Southern Baptist Convention. Home Mission Board. Metropolitan Missions Department
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 49,20 MB
Release : 1967*
Category : City churches
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Author : William H. Johnstone
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 44,16 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Change
ISBN :
The challenge facing the downtown church in a large city is to develop its understanding of community so that it can have realistic expectations for its life and create strategies to promote inclusiveness among its members and service to the city. Part of the challenge in this particular study is to promote inclusiveness for women by the termination of the church's Woman's Association and the merger of the Association's purposes into the wider life of the church. The theological principle at work in this study is that a church is a group of persons with a common loyalty to the God we know in Christ who form a community bound together like a body so that by using their various gifts (or parts) in common pursuits they reflect the inclusive love seen in Christ as they seek to edify one another and minister to the world. The most important conclusions of this study are that community is an intermediate style of group life, between the interactions of a primary group and those of a task oriented organization, a style of group life that has identifiable characteristics; that new organizational structures can promote inclusiveness within the membership and toward new members; and that the Biblical image of the body of Christ is a most important factor for centering the thought, attitudes, vision and mission of the community.
Author : Ezra Earl Jones
Publisher :
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 37,81 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Religion
ISBN :
This book is about the Old First Churches in the central business districts of American cities. The term Old First Church refers to a church characterized by a downtown location, members who are drawn from many sections of the city, and varied programs of activities that appeal to a wide range of people. More often than not, the name First (First Baptist, First Presbyterian, First Methodist, etc.) was chosen because it signified the first congregation of a particular denomination to be organized in the town. The material presented here is the result of a three-year study of more than three hundred downtown congregations in over one hundred cities across the country.