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Taking Your Church to the Next Level: What Got You Here Won't Get You There
All local churches experience a predictable life cycle of growth and decline. But if a church is on a downward trend, how can it turn around? Taking Your Church to the Next Level explains the impact of age and size on churches and outlines the improvements that must be made at each point for a church to remain fruitful and faithful to its mission. McIntosh deftly describes...more
Paperback, 215 pages
Published
September 1st 2009
by Baker Books
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Our church leadership team read this book during the summer to help us think about where we are and where we are going. The book suggests that if you are not growing, you are dying and that you need to assess not only where you are in that cycle, but how the size of the church congregation, structure and other factors play into the ability to reignite the church.
To start, I will say that unless you are a consultant, subscribe to Barna or have other ways to get the information that is ...more
To start, I will say that unless you are a consultant, subscribe to Barna or have other ways to get the information that is ...more
This book has some really practical advice for churches of all ages and sizes. There's not a lot of in-depth advice for a church at any stage, but some good overall thoughts.
The most helpful section dealt with how churches go through life-cycles based on the age of the church. There are plenty of books that deal with growth barriers based on the size of the church, but the age of a church seems to be just as much of an indicator of the likelihood of growth.
The most helpful section dealt with how churches go through life-cycles based on the age of the church. There are plenty of books that deal with growth barriers based on the size of the church, but the age of a church seems to be just as much of an indicator of the likelihood of growth.
This book is a good read and on the whole has certainly pegged the culture of different sized churches accurately. However, the author treats this subject from what feels like a business/secular persepctive. It unnerved me a bit to think of churches as businesses with growth goals. Perhaps I'm a little sensitive!
Very clear book that addresses life cycles of churches.
Intelligent treatment of healthy church growth. Easy to read for non-statisticians
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