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Sue Nilson Kibbey follows up the Abingdon Press leadership classic, Ultimately Responsible, with her latest experience-based research about how your congregation can make the shift from plateau or even decline - to opening the flood gates of spiritual upsurge. This resource is a practical “how-to” guide for pastors and church leaders who dream about releasing holy momentum in their current setting.
Whatever your church’s history, setting or mission field, you can set the stage to unleash the floodgates of a Breakthrough Prayer Initiative, learn the skills of making an urgent case for change, shift your church’s culture to “ubiquitous discipleship”, identify and deploy new leaders and other key crucial catalysts. All of these have the potential to transform your congregation into a fearless, Spirit-driven church that will make new spiritual history for Christ in your own mission field and beyond.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A revisiting of previous books
- By wall32 on 01-31-21
By: Thom S. Rainer
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Rebuilt
- Awakening the Faithful, Reaching the Lost, Making Church Matter
- By: Michael White, Tom Corcoran
- Narrated by: Michael White, Tom Corcoran
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 38
Drawing on the wisdom gleaned from thriving mega-churches and innovative business leaders while anchoring their vision in the Eucharistic center of Catholic faith, Fr. Michael White and lay associate Tom Corcoran present the compelling and inspiring story to how they brought their parish back to life. Rebuilt is a story of stopping everything and changing focus. When their parish reached a breaking point, Fr. Michael White and lay associate Tom Corcoran asked themselves how they could make the Church matter to Catholics.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Don't Do What's Suggested Unless You Will OWN IT.
- By Julia S on 02-06-18
By: Michael White, and others
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The Emotionally Healthy Leader
- How Transforming Your Inner Life Will Deeply Transform Your Church, Team, and the World
- By: Peter Scazzero
- Narrated by: Peter Scazzero
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 719
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 589
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 578
Do you feel too overwhelmed to enjoy life, unable to sort out the demands on your time? Are you doing your best work as a leader yet not making an impact? Have you ever felt stuck, powerless to change your environment? In The Emotionally Healthy Leader, best-selling author Peter Scazzero shows leaders how to develop a deep, inner life with Christ, examining its profound implications for surviving stress, planning and decision-making, building teams, creating healthy culture, influencing others, and much more.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The book was good but could have been much better
- By Brian Richards on 05-03-18
By: Peter Scazzero
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Small Church Essentials
- Field-Tested Principles for Leading a Healthy Congregation of Under 250
- By: Karl Vaters
- Narrated by: George W. Sarris
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 120
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 101
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Story5 out of 5 stars 101
Small Church Essentials is for leaders of smaller congregations. It encourages them to steward their role well, debunking myths about small churches while offering principles for leading a dynamic, healthy small church. Based on the popular six-hour lecture that Karl Vaters delivers to church leaders across the country, Small Church Essentials will affirm small church leaders and show them how to identify what they do well and how to do it even better.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Small churches can also be healthy churches
- By Jennifer L on 12-11-18
By: Karl Vaters
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Growing Young
- Six Essential Strategies to Help Young People Discover and Love Your Church
- By: Kara Powell, Jake Mulder, Brad Griffin
- Narrated by: Al Kessel
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 80
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 76
Churches are losing both members and vitality as increasing numbers of young people disengage. Based on groundbreaking research with over 250 of the nation's leading congregations, Growing Young provides a strategy any church can use to involve and retain teenagers and young adults. It profiles innovative churches that are engaging 15- to 29-year-olds and as a result are growing - spiritually, emotionally, missionally, and numerically.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great book, some of the worst voice acting/reading
- By Chuck Sanford on 01-04-19
By: Kara Powell, and others
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Growing an Engaged Church
- How to Stop "Doing Church" and Start Being the Church Again
- By: Albert L. Winseman
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story5 out of 5 stars 21
In this compelling and insightful book, Al Winseman - who has led thriving churches, including one he built from the ground up - explores how churches and parishes can dramatically increase members' participation, service to the community, giving, and even life satisfaction. But the solutions Winseman offers are not the "magic pill" many leaders have come to expect. Rather, he shows leaders how to reach and inspire the hearts, minds, and imaginations of their people.
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Creating Community
- Five Keys to Building a Small Group Culture
- By: Andy Stanley, Bill Willits
- Narrated by: Lloyd James
- Length: 3 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 142
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 122
Bill Willits and best-selling author Andy Stanley share their successful approach, which has resulted in nearly 8,000 adults becoming involved in small groups at North Point Community Church in Atlanta . Simply put, the five principles clearly described here have passed the test. This is not just another book about community; this is a book about strategy - strategy that builds a small group culture.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great book on the overall approach to small groups
- By Russell E. on 06-03-18
By: Andy Stanley, and others
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The Unstuck Church: Equipping Churches to Experience Sustained Health
- By: Tony Morgan
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 71
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 67
Think about your church for a moment. Is it growing? Is it diminishing? Is it somewhere in between? Acclaimed church leader, blogger, and founder and chief strategic officer of The Unstuck Group, Tony Morgan has identified the seven stages of a church's lifecycle that range from the hopeful and optimistic days of launch, to the stagnating last stages of life support. Regardless of the stage in which you find your church, it carries with it the world's greatest mission - to "go and make disciples of all the nations..."
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent!
- By B Weisenauer on 09-26-18
By: Tony Morgan
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Intentional Churches
- How Implementing an Operating System Clarifies Vision, Improves Decision-Making, and Stimulates Growth
- By: Doug Parks, Bart Rendel
- Narrated by: Josh Childs, John Behrens
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 19
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Story5 out of 5 stars 19
Do you want to reignite your passion for the local church and see your congregation live out the Great Commission by growing and making disciples? If so, implementing the revolutionary Intentional Growth Planning™ operating system will benefit you, your church, and your community! Just as laptops and smart phones have an operating system, the church needs a biblically based operating system where its various programs and activities can effectively plug in to.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Must Read For Those Who Love The Church!
- By Aaron McClary on 05-19-20
By: Doug Parks, and others
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Reclaiming Glory
- Revitalizing Dying Churches
- By: Mark Clifton
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 47
What is there about a dying church that brings glory to God? Mark Clifton's convicting answer is "nothing". Because a local church is intended to represent the work of God in a community, when that church "loses it saltiness", not only is God's work pictured as irrelevant in that community, but also dishonor and disrepute may well become associated with God's name as a result.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good Points, but very Exclusive toward women
- By LaShaunta Reid on 10-13-22
By: Mark Clifton
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Who Moved My Pulpit?
- Leading Change in the Church
- By: Thom S. Rainer
- Narrated by: George W. Sarris
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 146
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Story5 out of 5 stars 128
Nine out of 10 churches in America are either declining or growing slower than the communities in which they are located. Stated simply, 90 percent of American churches are losing ground in their communities. Change is not an option; it is an urgent need. We don't change our doctrines and biblical foundations, but we do change our methodologies and approaches for this rapidly changing culture.
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4 out of 5 stars
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great read for church leaders
- By Amazon Customer on 01-04-20
By: Thom S. Rainer
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No Silver Bullets
- Five Small Shifts That Will Transform Your Ministry
- By: Daniel Im
- Narrated by: Daniel Im
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 38
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Story5 out of 5 stars 38
What if I told you that you were only one step away from unlocking new levels of maturity and growth in your church? The myth of the silver bullet still exists because we desperately want it to. We all prefer quick fixes and bandage solutions to the long, hard, slow work that produces real change. What if the solution isn't a new model or a complicated strategy but a shift in perspective? What if you could keep your church's current vision, values, and model and simply make a few microshifts...leading to macrochanges?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Much needed book on discipleship
- By Cynthia Anderson on 07-13-18
By: Daniel Im
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Future Church
- 7 Laws of Real Church Growth
- By: Will Mancini, Cory Hartman
- Narrated by: William Sarris
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 66
Church growth models have often been long on promises and short on disciple-making. We continue to watch consistent church attendance shrink, and our desire to reach the lost is infected with a need for self-validation by growing our numbers at any cost. If we believe that God wants his church to grow, where do we go from here? What is the future of the church?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good read
- By MEDINA on 02-03-23
By: Will Mancini, and others
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Hero Maker
- Five Essential Practices for Leaders to Multiply Leaders
- By: Dave Ferguson, Warren Bird, J.D Greear - foreword
- Narrated by: Mark Smeby, Gabe Wicks, John Behrens
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 177
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 152
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 150
In Hero Maker you will learn how to bring real change to your church and community by developing the practical skills to help others reach their leadership potential. Drawing on five powerful practices found in the ministry of Jesus, Hero Maker presents the key steps of apprenticeship that will build up other leaders and provides strategies for how you can activate gifts, help others take ownership, and develop a simple scorecard for measuring your kingdom-building progress.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A well read and interesting book on how to grow the Kingdom of God
- By John_J. on 02-20-20
By: Dave Ferguson, and others
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Replenish
- Leading from a Healthy Soul
- By: Lance Witt
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 68
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Story5 out of 5 stars 61
Every leader functions on two stages - the front stage or public world, and the back stage or private world. One cannot lead successfully front stage when one is completely depleted back stage. In a time when pastors are leaving the ministry in record numbers due to cynicism, disillusionment, weariness, and personal scandals, there is an urgent need for soul care in the private lives of leaders. Replenish helps leaders focus on the back stage, the interior life, in order to remain spiritually healthy. In a caring, encouraging tone, it will show pastors how to prioritize.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Break the cycle
- By James on 04-29-22
By: Lance Witt
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Exponential
- How to Accomplish the Jesus Mission
- By: Dave Ferguson, Jon Ferguson
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 55
A tried-and-true classic in dynamic ministry growth, church building, and discipleship momentum. From professional church-planters Dave and Jon Ferguson comes the anchor book in the Exponential Series - envisioning new and practical methods of building churches, communities, and organizations on the cornerstone of Christ. Exponential lays out a concise and effective reproducing strategy, giving practical steps and case studies as you follow the growth of a church movement through four mains stages.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Challenging and thought provoking
- By PM on 05-20-19
By: Dave Ferguson, and others