Authors:James P. Wind, James W. Lewis,
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: congregations, study, perspectives, volume, american, new
Number of Pages: 302
Published: 1998-09-01
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0226901890
ISBN-13: 9780226901893

Continuing this two-part series on American religion, Volume 2 addresses three questions: Where is the congregation located on the broader map of American cultural and religious life? What are congregations’ distinctive roles in American culture? And, what patterns of leadership characterize congregations in America?.

Author: Charles R. Foster
Publisher: Abingdon Pre
Keywords: congregations, educating
Number of Pages: 162
Published: 1994-10-01
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0687002451
ISBN-13: 9780687002450

A leading Christian educator offers a practical guide for revisioning a church’s educational program. After identifying the weaknesses in current education programs, Charles Foster offers an alternative vision that is more cooperative, more attentive to the congregation’s life, and that helps people correlate the Bible and Christian tradition to their experience.

Author: Mark Chaves
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: america, congregations
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2004-05-15
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0674012844
ISBN-13: 9780674012844

More Americans belong to religious congregations than to any other kind of voluntary association. What these vast numbers amount to--what people are doing in the over 300,000 churches, synagogues, mosques, and temples in the United States--is a question that resonates through every quarter of American society, particularly in these times of "faith-based initiatives," "moral majorities," and militant fundamentalism. And it is a question answered in depth and in detail in Congregations in America. Drawing on the 1998 National Congregations Study--the first systematic study of its kind--as w

Author: WILLIAM HOPPER
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Keywords: congregations, authentic
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 1999-12-31
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0664501060
ISBN-13: 9780664501068

Author: Robert Schnase
Publisher: Abingdon Pre
Keywords: congregations, fruitful, practices, five
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2007-05-01
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0687645409
ISBN-13: 9780687645404

Schnase contends that sucessful congregations often have certain characteristics in common. These fundamental practices demonstrate congregational health, vitality, and fruitfulness. They also help churches fulfill their mission to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the tranformation of the world. The five practices of fruitful congregations: -Radical Hospitality -Passionate Worship -Intentional Faith Development -Risk-Taking Mission and Service -Estravagant Generosity

Author: Anthony B. Robinson
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Keywords: congregations, way, third, conversation, changing
Number of Pages: 199
Published: 2008-10-16
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0802807593
ISBN-13: 9780802807595

A sequel to his best-selling Transforming Congregational Culture (2003), Changing the Conversation offers Anthony Robinson-s latest work and thinking on congregational renewal and leadership. Robinson here invites church leaders and members into ten crucial conversations that will change their congregation-s culture and help them respond with greater vitality, effectiveness, and faithfulness to our postmodern culture and its challenges.

Author: Dennis A. Jacobsen
Publisher: Fortress Press
Keywords: organizing, community, congregations, justice, doing
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 2001-04-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0800632443
ISBN-13: 9780800632441

Doing Justice is an introductory theology of congregation-based community organizing rooted in the day-to-day struggles and hopes of urban ministry and in the authorÂ’s 14 years of personal experience in community organizing ministries. Drawing from the organizing principles of Saul Alinsky, Jacobsen weaves the theological and biblical warrants for community organizing into concrete strategies for achieving justice in the public arena. Designed to be used by congregations and church leaders, as well as by ministerial students, Doing Justice opens new vistas for community action in support o