Church Growth and Revival

Churches have tried all kinds of ways to attract new and younger members - revised vision statements, hipper worship, contemporary music, livelier ...

Based on a national study, this book shows how churches can move both new and old members into ministry by implementing effective new members' clas...

Eugene Peterson instilled the love of the local church in his family, and especially his son, pastor Eric E. Peterson. This collection of letters, ...

In this concise book, respected pastor, author, and church consultant Thom Rainer explains how the local church is God’s primary plan for reaching ...

This is only the third time in the history of the church that both the mission field and the way we communicate with that mission field have change...

Some churches grow rapidly, only to hit a ceiling. Other churches have experienced declining or static attendance--many of them for decades. Frustr...

With nearly fifty years combined global church-planting experience, Craig Ott and Gene Wilson offer here a comprehensive, up-to-date guide for cros...

Church growth models have often been long on promises and short on disciple making. We continue to watch consistent church attendance shrink, and o...

This book is a practical and encouraging 'how-to guide' for turning vision into reality and managing church growth. Tricia Neill draws on more than...

Is the Church out for the count? ... or ready for a rebirth?This is not yet another book about surviving lockdown, it is about possibilities that ...

Leaders who are interested in planting or revitalizing congregations often feel discouraged and defeated after leadership conferences, or after rea...

Hope and help for pastors and congregations who are asking, What now? And What’s next? Some pastors and congregations have managed remarkable innov...

Highly acclaimed for his work with parish renewal and the New Evangelization, Fr. James Mallon shares with us the many ways for bringing our parish...

The Apostle Paul was a veteran church planter who "laid a foundation like a wise and master builder" and there is much we can learn from his exampl...

Access to education has long been a priority for Americans. Full access to formal schooling is a symbol of freedom, a gateway to opportunity and re...

A critical assessment of church planting strategies and practices, offering a biblical, theological and historical foundation for this component of...

People have lost faith in all collective institutions: government, corporations, the media, and the church. We are in the midst of a spiritual disa...

The Church Is the Only Hope for Renewing and Redeeming Your Community Your church is meant to be a conduit of hope and healing, redemption and rene...

A powerful movement of the Holy Spirit in UK universities/colleges, including Wales, from the 1940s resulted in many students being converted and s...

In an age when church growth is centered in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, evangelicalism must adapt to changing demographics or risk becoming ir...

In John 17, Jesus prayed for the unity of the church. Yet today, we tend to accept disunity as inevitable. In this book, Anthony Burgess calls us t...

Is the Church Losing the Next Generation?More than half of all Christian teens and twentysomethings leave active involvement in church. Based on re...

The book that will forever change the way you think about church. The statistics are clear:  The American church is in decline.  People are leaving...

Something in the Church is broken.  For Christianity to move beyond business as usual, Christians must learn it’s not about what you do, but who yo...

Have Christians misunderstood what it means to be in the world but not of it? Has the church, in a sense, neglected the world to the detriment of a...

Galileo Church is not a cool, hip, exotic breed; it's just church, reimagined for a new day.In We Were Spiritual Refugees, Katie Hays, planter-past...

Every week 1000 children and young people cease to be regular churchgoers. What can be done to give the Church a fresh appeal to young people? Grah...

What If the Church Truly Empowered People to Engage in God's Mission? Something extraordinary has been happening in Tampa, Florida. A new expressi...

Every ministry needs capable and reliable volunteers, but so often it feels like no one is coming forward to fill your church's needs. In reality, ...

Opportunity Lies Right Down the Road. There’s hope for your church. Respected church expert Sam Rainer envisions an exciting new wave of revitalize...

From one of Scotland's greatest preachers, Robert Murray McCheyne, we have this fascinating collection of sermons that were preached during a perio...

Despite the progress our country has made in Civil Rights over the past century, Sunday morning is still one of the most segregated times in Americ...

We tell our aspiring church planters, “We want to prepare you for a thirty-year run!” So what will keep us going? How can we be faithful to the ...

The Church in the West, from which a vast missionary movement once went out across the world, is now in a state of decline which could be terminal,...

As any good manager of a hotel, store, restaurant, or attraction knows, the key to getting guests to come back is how they  feel  when they're ther...

Churches and their leaders have innovation fever. Innovation seems exciting--a way to enliven tired institutions, embrace creativity, and be proact...

The Bible is by far the most widely translated and circulated book in the world, and Christianity is by far the most globally dispersed religion. T...

The detailed report of a consultation attended by almost 150 men and women, all of them in positions of responsibility in the Brethren Movement. Th...

As a leader, you are the stone thrown into the water. Drawing on this analogy, Gareth Robinson offers ten guiding principles for pioneers and churc...