How are we doing? The church, that is. And how are we doing it? Congregations have long measured success by "bodies, budget, and buildings"--a cert...
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Aug 09, 2010
David
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Rainer and Stetzer conducted extensive research on churches that were 1) seeing converts and 2) doing a good job of discipling converts. Eschewing the traditional "budgets, bodies, and buildings" measuring sticks, they wanted to look for churches that were bringing Gospel transformation to the lives of individuals.
Normally, I ignore 'church research' books like this. Perhaps I'm cynical, but I find many of them simply come to the same conclusions (have dynamic worship, rele More...
Normally, I ignore 'church research' books like this. Perhaps I'm cynical, but I find many of them simply come to the same conclusions (have dynamic worship, rele More...
Jul 30, 2011
Paul
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Good book to stimulate thinking. At times, it was difficult to see how the conclusions were informed by the research, but that may be because they were trying to write a book for popular consumption and not for geeks like me. I appreciate the fact that the authors were more descriptive of Transformational Churches than prescriptive about how to make your church transformational.
Jul 30, 2011
Stetzer and Rainer continue to offer practical books based on their research for local churches to use to make themselves better...and in this case churches that create opportunities for the Holy Spirit to really TRANSFORM people.
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