Richard Hamm, Recreating The Church: Leadership for the Postmodern Age (TCP Leadership Series). Chalice Press, 2007. Referenced in: Adaptive Leadership (Heifetz) Missional Strategies, Transitioning Established Churches to Missional LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is another excellent contribution to The Columbia Partnership (TCP) Leadership Series. Any title of this series is worth reading. In this volume, Dick Hamm
Wes Roberts and Glenn Marshall, Reclaiming God’s Original Intent for the Church. NavPress, 2004. Referenced in: Missional Strategies – Transitioning Established Churches to Missional LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is a refreshing and resourceful book that most practicing ministers will experience as a pastoral-but-prophetic prod to move missionally in the post-Christendom context. It is not as practical
Gene Mims, The Kingdom Focused Church: A Compelling Image of an Achievable Future for Your Church. Broadman and Holman, 2003. Referenced in: Congregational Renewal – Integrated Spiritual / Strategic LifeandLeadership.com Summary This reads like an inspiring sermon for leaders of churches to focus on discerning the unique kingdom purpose God has for their church, and
Bill Easum, A Second Resurrection: Leading Your Congregation to New Life. Abingdon Press, 2007. Referenced in: Congregational Renewal – Integrated Spiritual/Strategic LifeandLeadership.com Summary In typical Easum no nonsense style, this volume addresses churches that cannot be renewed by any of the current models or ministry programs. Instead, they are not attuned to God’s purpose, and
William T. McConnell, Renew Your Congregation: Healing the Sick, Raising the Dead. Chalice Press, 2007. Referenced in: Congregational Renewal – Integrated Spiritual/Strategic LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is an honest, no-holds barred, dead serious look at congregational renewal. From the standpoint of method, it combines the basic philosophy of Rick Warrens’s Purpose Driven Church, the findings of
Howard E. Friend, Recovering the Sacred Center: Church Renewal from the Inside Out. Judson Press, 1998. Referenced in: Strategies for Church Renewal: Integrated Spiritual/Strategic LifeandLeadership.com Summary Howard Friend provides a rare blend in this work. He integrates postmodern cultural sensitivity, theological reflection, contemplative spiritual practices, leadership development, and corporate visioning into a very thoughtful approach
Loren Mead, More Than Numbers: the Way Churches Grow. Alban Institute, 1993. Referenced in: Congregational Renewal – Integrated Spiritual/Strategic LifeandLeadership.com Summary This text on church development and renewal that has enjoyed wide use among both Evangelicals and Protestants. It is a healthy challenge to our obsession with numerical growth, and while respectful of that dimension,
Mel Lawrenz, Whole Church: Leading from Fragmentation to Engagement. Jossey-Bass / Leadership Network. Jossey-Bass, 2009. Referenced in: Strategies for Church Renewal – Integrated Spiritual/Strategic LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is a guide for churches to become completely integrated toward God’s vision in all it does, rather than a fragmented collection of vaguely acquainted individuals isolated into ministry
N. Graham Standish, Becoming a Blessed Church: Forming a Church of Spiritual Purpose, Presence, and Power. Alban Institute, 2004. Referenced in: Strategies for Church Renewal – Integrated Spiritual/Strategic LifeandLeadership.com Summary If you have ever been frustrated with books on church renewal through spirituality not because you disliked the emphasis, but because of the almost universal
Michael Horton, In the Face of God: The Dangers and Delights of Spiritual Intimacy. Thomas Nelson, 1997. Referenced in: Congregational Renewal Through Spiritual Revival LifeandLeadership.som Summary LifeandLeadership.com lists this as a critique on revivals and revivalism. Horton does not address revivalism per se, but he tackles the revivalistic spirituality expressed in popular Christian literature, and
