Transforming Church: Bringing Out the Good to Get to Great

by Kevin G. Ford and Billy Graham

Book Overview

Using the story of five churches wrestling with change and searching for genuine growth in their ministry, "The Transforming Church" identifies the five dysfunctions of an unhealthy church and the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1414308930
• ISBN13: 9781414308937
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: SaltRiver
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Where has this book been! For Such A Time as This!

Transforming Church is a MUST read. Ford has taken the best organizational leadership practices and learning and applied them to church culture. Ford gets right to the heart of the matter! Ford gives brilliant illustrations and incarnates the truths of organizational leadership into a doable and understandable, common sense process to transform church! Don't miss this book!

Great book!

Good book with some great perspectives on how to evaluate the condition of your church and move forward in the direction God calls you. It gives specifc church case studies and examples that help bring the princples suggested into actual ways they can work and keep churches healthy.

A Must Read

This is the best book that I have read on the subject of leading a church through transformation. Ford's insights and practical applications are fresh and relevent. I would highly recommend it to any pastor or lay leader.

Transforming!

This is a great book! I wouldn't hesitate to encourage anyone who loves Christ and the church to thoroughly work through it. When I read Transforming Church, many of the events and circumstances of my more than twenty years of ministry began to make sense. Based on solid research and practice, Kevin Ford addresses the struggles churches and church leaders face in our culture. The stories of real congregations strained by personalized conflict, conflicting values and resistance to change made this not only accessible for me, but for the more than 30 staff and lay leaders in my church that have read it. That Kevin doesn't offer quick fixes and fast answers gave me confidence that this is the real deal. Like many church leaders I have been seduced by "successful" church models. Instead of throwing models at you, Transforming Church offers a systemic view of health and encouragement to do the work of transformation.

Powerful and Practical

This is a book I'm really excited about! I'm always asked by people at established churches how they can bring health and transformation to their churches. This is the first book I'll recommend. This book is also good for church planters because it's describing what the church should look like. It provides a way to gage your church as well as ways to develop your church. Way to go Kevin - this is a home run. Bob Roberts, Author of Transformation & Glocalization.Transformation: How Glocal Churches Transform Lives and the World