The Magnetic Fellowship
Overview
"If only I could see lives changed!"
So goes a common lament of pastors who are working hard, working prayerfully, but seeing no visible results. Their efforts go unrewarded; their churches attract few new comers. How can the situation be turned around? How can new people be reached?
Other churches struggle with the related problem of keeping people. For every new member coming into the fellowship, someone else seems to slip out the back door, dropping out of service and then disappearing all together. How can these people be kept active and growing?
The Magnetic Fellowship provides practical, tested answers to these vital questions. Fourteen experienced contributors, show such things as how to make a church appealing to visitors, how to evangelize more effectively, how to help new Christians grow and become part of the church, how to become part of the church, how to regain missing members, and how to keep volunteers active in ministry.
This is the fifteenth volume of THE LEADERSHIP LIBRARY, a continuing series from LEADERSHIP, the practical journal for church leaders published by Christianity Today, Inc. Other volumes in the series include Well-Intentioned Dragons, Learning to Lead, and Secrets of Staying Power.
Top Highlights
“Growing churches emphasize what God can do, not what we cannot do; what is best in people, not what is worst; how we can build each other up, not tear each other down.” (Page 34)
“Research has indicated that the potential for church growth increases as the leadership role of the pastor increases and the leadership role of the congregation decreases.” (Page 19)
“But let’s focus on yet another purpose of church leadership, namely, church growth. In a broad sense, church growth means improving the quality of the Christian life of the existing members; but it’s also concerned with a regular and sustained increase in the number of those members.” (Page 15)
“Growth potential increases as the pastor becomes less of a minister and more of a leader. This takes place if the people in the congregation decide to become ministers through the use of their spiritual gifts—teaching, exhortation, service, mercy, evangelism, hospitality, healing, liberality, administration, and others—and the body becomes alive.” (Page 26)
“A pastor who conscientiously attempts to serve God in a biblical way is faced with two dilemmas: the relationship of power to humility, and the relationship of leadership to servanthood.” (Page 17)
Product Details
- Title: The Magnetic Fellowship
- Editor: Larry K. Weeden
- Publisher: CTi; Word
- Publication Date: 1988