Do You Want to Save The Church? : a Handbook for Pastors and Lay People.
This book attempts to help church leaders looking for a strategy as to how to restore the church in the midst of a struggling and declining age. Choe utilizes his experience working with a struggling ministry to propose twenty-four ideas and programs for the restoration of the church.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Blue Ridge Summit :
Hamilton Books,
2016.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword; Notes; 1 Every Church Is Struggling for Restoration; A Deep Concern for the Decline of the Church; Things Seem To Be Going Well Everywhere Except at the Church; The Pastor Is Getting Sick in the Ministry; The Statistics of Church Membership in the USA; Notes; 2 The Roots of Decline in the Church; A Dialogue on the Current Trend; Materialism as the Cause of Spiritual Desensitization; The Institutional Church and the Status Quo; The Church as a Stepping Stone; Where Is the Church in the World Today?; Socio-Ideological Issues; Notes; 3 Ten Reasons Why the Church Is Dying.
- 4 Some Opinions on the Solution of This ProblemSome Lessons from Experienced Pastors; The Urgent Voices of Lay People; Learning Leadership from the Business World; Notes; 5 The Sunday Pastor and the Everyday Pastor; Who Is the Sunday Pastor?; The Everyday Pastor Saves the Church; 6 The Healthy Lay and Church Disruptor; Conflicts Internal to the Church; Group Games and Power Games; Controlling Behaviors; Unhealthy People as Rotten Apples; Some Churches in Human Hands; A Homogeneous Church; 7 Twenty Four Ideas for Restoring the Church; Mission Statement.
- Some Programs That Can Affect a Turnaround in the ChurchA Proposal to the Board of Congregational Development; Notes; 8 A Concluding Message on Saving the Church; Notes; Some Thoughts on the Church, Its Mission and Its Future; Bibliography.