Coming Clean: The Study Guide to Kicking Habits

For all those who ask the question, “How must my life be different if our church is going to be a vital witness to Jesus Christ?”

Coming Clean is a study guide that explores the issues of church transformation described in the groundbreaking book, Kicking Habits. Using a series of Bible studies, group discussions, and group exercises, participants can customize and apply the insights on thriving church life to their own congregational context.

"Coming Clean" means honest discernment of the realities of one's church and spiritual insight on the original purpose of the Body of Christ. It involves mutual support and a positive attitude for change, so that congregations find confidence for the future, and leaders no longer bear the stress alone.

Coming Clean is part of Bandy's Church Transformation Trilogy, a comprehensive set of guides for congregational leaders. The trilogy includes Kicking Habits: Upgrade Edition; which provides a large overview of systemic change and the addictive behaviors that prevent it and answers the question, "What does a thriving church look like?" The third volume is Facing Reality, a comprehensive tool that examines all 11 sub-systems of congregational life and places the reader's church on the continuum of addiction and health by answering the question, "Where must we change our church?"

Thomas G. Bandy is an internationally-recognized church consultant and leadership coach. He works across the spectrum of church traditions, denominations, congregations, contexts, and cultures. Tom coaches transforming and transitioning congregations, church plants, multi-site and cross-cultural churches, and faith-based nonprofits. He is the president of Thriving Church Consulting LLC and can be found in his virtual office at ThrivingChurch.com. He is the author of several books on congregational leadership.