Books : The Purpose-Driven Church: Growth Without Compromising Your Message & Mission
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by: Rick Warren
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 253
EAN: 9780310201069
ISBN: 0310201063
Label: Zondervan
Manufacturer: Zondervan
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: November 27, 1995
Publisher: Zondervan
Sales Rank: 11722
Studio: Zondervan
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Product Description:
This groundbreaking book offers a biblical yet practical strategy that will empower churches to minister in the 21st century. After testing and refining these concepts for fifteen years, Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church, shares the five-part growth strategy he developed. It gives a step-by-step process that will cause your church to grow warmer through ministry, and larger through evangelism.
Amazon.com Review:
The thesis of The Purpose Driven Church is that when churches think first about their health, growth is sure to follow. 'If your church is healthy,' writes Rick Warren, 'growth will occur naturally. Healthy, consistent growth is the result of balancing the five biblical purposes of the church.' These five purposes are to 'Love the Lord with all your heart,' 'Love your neighbor as yourself,' 'Go and make disciples,' '[Baptize] them,' and '[Teach] them to obey.' And those purposes can only be accomplished, argues Warren, when church leaders stop thinking about church-building programs and shift their focus to a 'people-building process' involving fellowship, discipleship, worship, and evangelism. Warren, the founder of the fastest-growing Baptist church in American history, has taught seminars to thousands of pastors from all over the world, many of whom have successfully implemented his techniques.
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Rating:  - What can you say
I have read this book many, many times. The only things about it that I don't like are all the references to growth it contains. The dustcover has so many references to growth it sickens me, but Warren probably didn't write that and the publishers know who will be reading.
The book is great at helping a church ask questions that need to be asked and helping a church to find a paradigm that would be pleasing to God. Regardless of what type of church you are in this book will be of ... Read More
Rating: - Sudy Book
I purchased these for my Graceful Ladies Bible Study group, at their request. We haven't begun, yet, but we are anxious to get started.
Rating: - Good book
I enjoyed this book better than the Purpose Driven Life. Good sound strategies or a seeker service style program.
Rating: - The Bible of Church Management
This is an excellent text for any phase of church management. I kept trying to find areas to disagree with and I found none!
Rating: - Church Changing
I read this book over a decade ago. It literally changed how I, a pastor, now "do church." The church I serve has been transformed and now is a joyful, healthy place to be. We are impacting our community for Christ and seeing lives changed. Warren's concepts are simple yet profound.
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