Local Church

We live in a season when church attendance is still building back to what it was before the pandemic. Many Christians have been separated from their church communities. How do we resume and re-prioritize church life and join back together? Why do we even need to—especially when online church fits so neatly around our schedules? Gathered for Good addresses this felt need with empathy and authority and encourage believers to commit to their local church community as a way to deepen their spiritual growth and invest in treasure that will last.

Does the local church today recognize its place as the beloved bride of Christ? In this audiobook, Dustin Benge invites believers who have underestimated or become disillusioned by the church to rediscover its beauty and glory. Exploring biblical qualities including the Trinitarian relationship, selfless service, and gospel proclamation, he awakens the affections of Christ's followers for their local church home.

This is a basic book of leadership in the local church with a biblical approach. At the end of the book, you will gain a general biblical knowledge of leadership in the local church (Examples: led by the Holy Spirit, the spiritual life of the leader, imitating the leadership of Jesus, formation of the leader and the leader makes leaders). Enroll in our Bible studies courses at: https://biblestudy.gnomio.com/

The ministry of prophets when they flow together as a team in prophetic presbytery, is a powerful event in the life of any local church. This book gives the reader a first-hand look at prophetic presbytery and why it is so important for the members of a church and the church itself. Prophet Bill Emmons has been teaching about, and personally ministering prophetic presbytery for over three decades. As a globally recognized prophet with nearly nearly fifty years of ministry, prophet Bill Emmons provides some clear insight, and much needed instruction, about this vital ministry in the New ...

She came to the resort to heal her voice, only to discover her heart needed healing more. Breaking under the stress of being a rising star, opera singer Grace Galveston travels to Tallulah Falls in search of reprieve. With its multiple waterfalls, spectacular gorge and mountain scenery, and lavish resorts, "The Niagara of the South," seems the perfect place to do just that. Even amid the crowds and excitement of an aerialist’s attempt to cross the gorge, Grace hopes to find peace. Daniel Monroe basks in that peace as minister of a local church. He’s the perfect tour guide for Grace ...

The perfect start to your fivefold ministry call. Identify your God-given gifts for serving the church and then mature into your fivefold ministry calling. Make steady progress toward your goal to become a fivefold minister. Master the skill sets necessary for your ministry. Apostle Colette Toach has trained Christians for 25 years to recognize their spiritual gifts and fivefold ministry destinies. However big the promise/vision God's given you, it starts with this strong foundation. You’ll learn: Your core purpose and calling for what you've been put on this earth for. How God uses you ...

If you work in Christian ministry, it’s likely that at some point in your career, God will call you from one church to another. Do you know how to make this transition effectively? Moving can be scary and full of questions: Where do I start the job search process? Which people do I talk with, and what do I send to them? How do I know if my family and I will fit in at a new church? And how do I tell people I’m leaving?

The Pew Report released a study showing the number of people switching churches and those with no church affiliation has grown considerably. This is a very important and issue that needs to be addressed. This book addresses the issue so that church or parachurch small groups can listen together and discuss the questions at the end of chapters. The book is designed to help listeners more deeply value church and what church ought to look like.

This comprehensive guide is designed to help you and your church enter a lifestyle where the supernatural becomes normal—a lifestyle in which God’s perfect will breaks into this world, and Jesus is glorified.

Ushering in the local church is much more than just shaking hands and passing offering plates. Fulfilling your role as an usher is just as important to the body of Christ as that of a prophet, teacher, or evangelist. This book covers both the biblical and the practical aspects of church ushering. Buddy Bell, founder of Ministry of Helps International, combines humor with informative teaching to help you become more effective in your ministry. You will be challenged to serve with excellence.

Mark DeYmaz presents seven common obstacles to building a healthy multi-ethnic church, taking the reader beyond merely understanding the need for diversity, to the practical challenges and ramifications of day-to-day leadership within a diverse congregation of faith.

Today, there is a disconnection between the youth and the leadership of the church. With fewer and fewer young people attending church, a hole has been created in the membership where the young people used to be. With that we are also seeing a growing generation gap in churches that impacts leadership and how youth are and are not transitioning into leadership at the local level. How can we keep a steady group of leaders being developed in the local church? This book is a history, of sorts, of African American youth ministry in the US. We use the brush of the past to be able to re-...

A pesar de que la mayoría de los cristianos no se trasladan a vivir a otros países, la Biblia recluta a todos los cristianos y a todas las iglesias locales en el gran proyecto de las misiones mundiales. La iglesia local es el motor de las misiones a nivel mundial, ¿pero por dónde debemos empezar? Las iglesias no necesitan un complicado programa misionero, lo que necesitan es la Biblia y la sabiduría necesaria para saber cómo aplicarla. Este libro se basa en la Escritura y ofrece pasos prácticos para capacitar misioneros.

This book is designed to introduce basic Baptist principles involved in church planting. The authority for church planting is the local church. We do not presume that our ideas are infallible or unchangeable. We offer this to help and give them insight should the Lord lead the reader into that work through their local church. Within these few pages, the young preacher will also find bits of help for conducting weddings, funerals, and administering Our Lord’s Supper.

This little book will undoubtedly serve as a go-to handbook for many pastors, local elders, and Ephesians 4:11 ministers to learn to structure any meeting for the operations and demonstrations of the Holy Spirit. Instructions include: How to be honorable vessels who excel in spiritual gifts. How to keep the move and flow of the Spirit clean, crisp, fresh, and orderly. Staying free from excesses, abuses, and extremes. Learning to give place to the ministry of interpretation. Why the ministry of tongues and interpretation are to be more frequently manifested than any other gifts. Increasing ...

Quality management - a discipline that started in manufacturing has migrated to service industries such as hospitality, hotels, and health care. As these industries have embraced quality management practices, we, as consumers, have developed higher expectations for positive, error-free service experiences. Because of this phenomenon, there is increased pressure on non-profit and church organizations to make excellence a guiding principle of managing operations – and who, more than the church, should be doing things with excellence? This book is perfect for anyone who manages the day-to-...

Leadership training messages for those whose hearts have a sense of responsibility in the church.

When local woman Deborah goes missing, her colleagues Adrian, Yvonne and Merriel are all left in shock. Gossip around the office begins to swirl – what could have happened to Deborah? Is she dead or alive? And who could be responsible for her disappearance? Everyone is terrified that they could be next...except the one person who has all the answers. The last person people expect. Because Deborah is being held captive by a monster, a psychopath. But not a stranger...it’s someone she knows all too well.

Many people believe they don’t need the local church. They are like my friend, Jim, who prayed the “sinner’s prayer.” I had been witnessing to Jim for a long time, and he now was a Christian—or so I thought. Over the months, I noticed that Jim did not like to attend church, telling me that he was very private and didn’t like to share his life with others. After many months, I felt the need to challenge his individualistic thinking. I said to him, “Those who know Jesus are willing to have others hold them accountable. They don’t hold on to a privatized religion and their ...

Serving in pastoral ministry is a wonderful privilege. It's also a major challenge and a complicated task, even for those convinced they've been called to the profession. Many young pastors confess that the responsibilities they inherit when assuming the role feel overwhelming. Leading a church is a form of ministry that can stretch and test the strongest of personalities. In this book, 11 seasoned pastors share formative stories from their early years of church leadership, along with valuable counsel on important subjects like; marriage, parenting, personal finances, handling ...