SIMPLE CHURCH, MINIMALIST APPROACHES
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Simple, Minimalist – This is a “simplify and guide-through” method that seeks to avoid the complexity of many church development approaches and suggests ways of defining simple, straightforward and strategic processes that move people through the stages of spiritual growth.
The approach is “simple,” not so much in terms of the way leaders experience it, as it does require disciplined attention to designing and executing careful strategies. It is “simple” more for the members who experience the congregation as a workable system to lead them carefully through the path of discipleship. The old saying applies: Making things complex is simple, but making things simple is complex. The titles below are very popular among church leaders, and are the standards on this subject.
- Thom Rainer and Eric Geiger, Simple Church: Returning to God’s Process for Making Disciples
- Dave Browning, Deliberate Simplicity: How the Church Does More by Doing Less. Leadership Network Innovation Series
- Dave Ferguson, Jon Ferguson, Eric Bramlett, The Big Idea: Aligning the Ministries of Your Church through Creative Collaboration
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