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by Andy Stanley, Reggie Joiner,
and Lane
Jones
ISBN 1590523733
Price $19.99
Seven Practices of Effective Ministry was not written by theoreticians but active practitioners. Each author is a member of the leadership team at North Point Community Church in Atlanta, Georgia.
The book does not give you a list of programs complete with directions for implementing them. Instead, it emphasizes practices that will bring clarity and focus to your ministry.
These practices will help you “determine which programs to start, what to stop, and how to improve what’s working.” Andy Stanley admits, “You will find no new strategy hidden in these pages. But as you embrace each of the seven practices, your ministry cannot help but become more strategic in everything it does.”
LIVING IN YOUR WORLD WITHOUT GETTING HOOKED
By Tom Neven
ISBN 0801065186
Price $12.99
The author raises a very important question that we all must answer. “Have you considered that maybe you’re looking at everything through world-colored glasses instead of Christ-colored glasses?” Sorry. This book is not really about whether fish know they are wet, but if we have adopted a pagan worldview without knowing it.
Neven skillfully compares a Christian worldview with competing opinions found in our culture. The author, the former editor of
Focus on the Family magazine, manages to make a difficult
subject fascinating.
If you are yawning and asking what’s the big deal about worldviews, consider this. Your worldview “affects the way you live, share the gospel, and become a good citizen, parent, or friend.”
This book is important for anyone who wants to understand today’s culture in order to affect it…and avoid getting hooked by it.
by Greg Carlson
ISBN 0830739203
Price $17.99
Greg Carlson portrays the rock solid teacher as one holding students in one hand, the Word of God in the other, bringing the two together for maximum impact. Life change is the only goal for a rock solid teacher, not the distribution of information or the gaining of knowledge. The author drives home the simple truth behind John Milton Gregory’s Seven Laws of Teaching—where there is no learning there is no teaching.
Can anyone be a rock solid teacher? Carlson says, “ I often tell evangelical teachers, ‘If something’s worth doing, it’s worth doing poorly at first until you can do it better!’” This is the heart and soul of the beginning Bible teacher. It is the Holy Spirit who will teach both the teacher and the student to be rock solid in the faith.
Rock Solid Teacher (a must read companion book to Rock Solid Kids) is ideal for anyone who wants to teach like Jesus.
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