Rainer And Geiger: Summary

Galindo analyzes that the fundamental “mission” of a congregation is the same as any other congregation that exists in any part of the world. He argues that though every congregation has a mission and a vision, at the same time, it shares a basic common mission. (43) This reminds me of my home church The First Church of Evanston and my Field Site, The Evanston Vineyard Church. Both churches have a common mission of welcoming people to the church, irrespective of their ethnic, cultural, racial, and economic and, gender backgrounds. The mission is to help people be received in the house of God with due and deserved Christian love so that they feel loved and welcomed. Both these churches encourage church attendees to attend the service and receive the Eucharist.

A church whose pastor and others in leadership have failed to put in place a proactive plan for discipleship for Believers is usually a “growing” church — growing stagnant, growing cold, growing spiritually immature Christians, and eventually, many growing closed. Patte said, “There is much at stake in accepting or rejecting the challenge of discipleship…” When a pastor or a church makes a conscious decision to make discipleship of Believers a primary focus in their

These surveys show that church leaders have a great challenge ahead of them in order to prevent people from leaving church. They have to be more effective and have to think of creative ways to retain people in the churches.

God loves his Church and Jesus is the one who builds the Church. Then, it goes without saying that God loves the local church and Jesus builds the local church. Unfortunately, there are many factors that come into play, causing churches to become complacent or stagnate before entering into a season of decline. Yet this can be avoided through the process of revitalization.

have many weak symptoms. The church community’s level of differentiation is an average of all

The book renewed hope and excitement for a pastor coming to the end of transitioning a local church from one chapter into a new one. This hope is not because the process is almost complete, but because of MacDonald’s focus on people being greater than the process. This reviewer was renewed in his heart for the real people he is pastoring. Those that are still on the team and in the family have weathered the storm as well, and are ready to be lead to wherever God might take

When it comes to ensuring the fulfillment of the vision and mission of the church it is important to sweat the small stuff. Toler and Nelson gives insight as to how important it is to be proactive when it comes to ministry. We should pay attention to the seemingly insignificant details because the minor details can make the difference in the ministry’s success or failure.

Complacency and comfort are attitudes that characterize and threaten even the most outwardly successful church, including this example. Factoring into the attitudes are facts that bear witness that few churches of such success and stability exist within the immediate geographic region. As McIntosh states, “Long term excellence is always the result of continual improvements over time.” Among the critical issues facing Hillcrest are the clarification of vision, leadership development among the new or younger members, and the intentional celebration of ministry wins within the context of minor changes.

The author discovered four major factors that church growth in the North American Division tremendously. First factor is empowering servant leadership. In this section, the leaders work hard and they are willing to make sacrifice in the purpose to see a growing church. The second one is passionate and authentic spirituality they believe that it is spirituality that is the source of passion of passion and power behind their effectiveness. The third point is about how their members are committed to get involved in different activity. Some churches they not growing because they expect their pastors to do all the duties of the church. The fourth factor about a growing church is God exalting worship. Worship is one of key factor for church growth.

The task of my choosing is for the revival of a church that is lukewarm toward evangelism and now is just sitting and waiting for God to move when God is waiting for the members to move. Jesus’s message to the church of Laodicea is found in Rev. 3:16 (KJV), “So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth”.

“On this rock I will build My Church.” This is the timeless promise Jesus gave as he spoke to Peter in Matthew 16:18. Over the ages this bell of truth has rung resoundingly throughout church history, as the church has experienced periods of growth and decline. It provides assurance for churches as a whole. The Church must remember that Christ is it’s head and that only by his power will a congregation experience revival and revitalization.

Robert Morris writes a book about the essentials of Church growth and it's development. Having made that statement, the book achieves its own manner of possessing small nuggets of wisdom. Although, that pill was extremely hard to want to swallow as Robert Morris' book is comprised of the typical attitude of mega church pastors even down to the organizational community approach needed to guide a church, all of this is exceedingly evident in part three. The premise of this book is good that we would want our church's to be blessed and be a blessing. Though the premise was good and had good intention, he tends to have shortsighted view based upon the way he envisions church versus the holistic view of what church should be as a whole.

The second one is the Northpoint Community Church, their process is also clear and it portrays the image of home, they call it the “Foyer to the Kitchen”. The welcome place starts in the Foyer, the connection place is in the living room, and discipleship occurs in the kitchen, which represent community groups with others (Rainer & Geiger, 2011, p99). The authors define a simple church as a straight-forward and strategic process designed around a congregation that moves people through the stages of spiritual growth (Rainer & Geiger, 2011, p60). If we view the definition of a simple church one phrase at a time, the first thing you would see is that the church is designed or centered around something. The design is straightforward and strategically processed for discipleship in a simple church. Keeping this process simple eliminated confusion for the leaders and the people and it allows the purpose or vision of the church to move forward and promotes movement. The people are moved by this simple and strategic process and they are attracted to Christ and the church that allows

A sentiment common to almost any organization is that the one fact that remains constant is change. As society changes, and human understanding grows, any organization that maintains a static posture, assures its demise. Churches and Christian organizations are no exception. The gospel may remain the same, but the method for communicating it must speak to the audience to assure understanding. The Christian leader must be prepared to meet this challenge by incorporating an effective model for change into his theology of leadership in order to keep the ministry relevant and effective. Searching for such a change agent can prove to be challenging as well. To aid in this search, four

Before establishing the seven-step strategy, the Willow Creek Community first approached non-churchgoers as customers. As a result, The Seven-step Strategy became an effective marketing technique to encourage these type customers (Non-churchgoers) to develop a Christian relationship not only within themselves, but which church-members as well. As non-churchgoers are finally known as the “Seekers,” the Willow Creek Community Church made it their mission to provide unique services and encourage the Seekers to participate actively in engaging in a balanced environment. A balanced environment where comfort becomes the guiding force in allowing Seekers to discuss and have a voice in discussing how Christianity could