Church That Works: Your One-Stop Resource for Effective Ministry

by Gary L. McIntosh

Book Overview

The expertise of veteran church consultant and best-selling author Gary McIntosh is now available in an easily portable format. McIntosh offers readers his invaluable insights on the church in order to help leaders make their churches more effective. It's just like hiring your own church consultant, but at a fraction of the cost. This at-a-glance practical guidebook helps pastors and church leaders with a wide variety of issues, including: -reaching...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801091616
• ISBN13: 9780801091612
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Baker Books
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

What a Blessing!

I thank my brother Pastor, Victor Lewis. He recommended this wonderful book as our ministry pondered the decision of moving to a second Sunday service. The insight that was given, truly Heaven sent. The author Gary McIntosh allowed the Spirit of the living God to use him mightly. The Zion Hill Baptist Church of Rodeo, CA is most assuredly indebted to God and this author. To God be the Glory!! Praise... His Holy Name!

The Right Tools

The right tools can make an impossible job quite easy. The right tools are usually desinged by those people who have gone before us and attempted to do the task at hand before we did. Gary McIntosh gives good practical tools to be used for church growth. He lays out his tools of experience in simple short chapters that can be picked up and used with ease.

Your One-Stop Resource For Effective Ministry

Church That Works: Your One-Stop Resource For Effective Ministry by Gary L. McIntosh (Professor of Christian Ministry and Leadership, Talbot School of Theology, Biola University, La Mirada, California) is a useful advice guide for pastors. Topics covered include how to assess new ministry trends, welcoming and following up with newcomers to one's church, revitalizing a declining church, ministering across generations, leading and compensating one's staff, and much more. Of especial interest is the insight into the changes the Boomer generation have brought to American secular and religious society, reinventing and redefining even the stages of life. Emphasizing practical needs as surely as spiritual, Church That Works is an all-around excellent reference and resource, highly recommended for anyone charged with tending to the daily workings of a church or the spiritual needs of a congregation.