George W. Bullard, Jr., Pursuing The Full Kingdom Potential of Your Congregation (TCP Leadership Series). Chalice Press, 2006. Referenced in: Strategies for Church Leadership and Renewal – Congregational Health Cycle LifeandLeadership.com Summary George Bullard is an insightful church strategist, one of the best in my opinion. At the time he wrote this book, he was
Robert Dale, To Dream Again: How to Help Your Church Come Alive. Wipf and Stock, 2004. Referenced in: Strategies for Church Leadership and Renewal – Congregational Health Cycle LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is a recognized classic in church leadership, first published in 1988 and now in a nice reprint edition. Dale provides an excellent discussion of
DISCIPLESHIP, DISCIPLE-MAKING Part of two Ministry Resource Guides: Church Leadership and Renewal Strategies for Church Renewal: Diagnostic/Prescriptive Sections: Introduction Resources Related Areas Introduction Disciple-Making approaches are a “measure up” method of renewal that prescribe benchmarks to assess whether members are becoming more committed disciples. Like other diagnostic/prescriptive approaches, these tools help churches measure themselves against
CHURCH DIAGNOSTICS, EASUM and BANDY Part of the Ministry Resource Guide on Strategies for Congregational Renewal: Diagnostic/Prescriptive Example of Diagnostic/Prescriptive: Easum and Bandy’s Eleven Subsystems of a Thriving Congregation Introduction The Eleven Key Subystems Assessments for each of the eleven key subsystems Leadership belief systems and structures for the eleven key subsystems Related Areas Introduction
CONGREGATIONAL LIFE CYCLE Part of the ministry resources on Church Leadership, Church Health and Renewal. Church Health, Congregational Life Cycle – Most church health strategies make use of the congregational life cycle, an adaptation of Ichak Adizes research which shows how organizations evolve through a predictable cycle of birth, maturity/effectiveness, and then demise. Many planning
