Move Your Church to Action

Move Your Church to Action......Page 2
Acknowledgments......Page 3
Preface......Page 4
Introduction......Page 6
Growing Churches......Page 7
1   The Action Church......Page 9
The New Testament Church......Page 11
The Church of the Middle Ages......Page 12
The "Actionary" Church......Page 13
Discussion Questions......Page 15
2   Time for a Checkup......Page 16
Mission or Maintenance?......Page 17
Sensitive or Self-Centered?......Page 22
Risk or Rut?......Page 24
Progressive or Petrified?......Page 27
Planned or Pasteurized?......Page 29
Organized or Ossified?......Page 30
Discussion Questions......Page 33
3   What Business Are You In?......Page 35
The Case of the U.S. Railroads......Page 37
Sears, Roebuck and Company......Page 38
Your Business Shapes Your Action......Page 41
Roadblock People......Page 42
Discussion Questions......Page 45
4   Institution or Organism?......Page 47
Institutional or Organismic?......Page 48
The Church Alive......Page 49
The "Doctrine" of Elections......Page 53
Professional Church Workers......Page 54
Discussion Questions......Page 55
Caught, Not Taught......Page 56
Leadership in the Home......Page 58
Motivating Leadership......Page 59
Ten Characteristics of Quality Leadership......Page 61
Two Kinds of Leadership......Page 64
Discussion Questions......Page 66
6   The Pastor's Place in Leadership......Page 67
Pastoral Training......Page 68
The Great Mix-Up......Page 71
Two Abuses of Pastoral Leadership......Page 73
Dynamic Leadership......Page 74
Long-Term Pastorates......Page 77
Multiple Staff......Page 78
Discussion Questions......Page 80
Pastor......Page 82
Money......Page 83
Lifeless Worship......Page 86
Communication Inside......Page 87
Communication Outside......Page 89
Negativism......Page 91
Cultural Baggage......Page 92
Discussion Questions......Page 93
8   Honoring Your Context......Page 94
What Are the Unchurched Thinking?......Page 96
Openness: Windows of Opportunity......Page 98
God’s Rainbow of People Groups......Page 99
Discussion Questions......Page 101
9   The Baskin-Robbins Church......Page 102
What About Unity?......Page 104
Classical One-Choice Thinking......Page 106
Telling Your Church’s Story......Page 107
Different Strokes for Different Folks......Page 109
Discussion Questions......Page 110
Horizontal Horizons with Vertical Values......Page 111
Laser Christianity......Page 112
A Sending Church......Page 113
Discussion Questions......Page 114
Epilogue: Counting the Cost......Page 115
Move Your Church to Action......Page 116