Num Pages: 218 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 2 black & white halftones, 1 tables. BIC Classification: HRCX1; HRCX4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 232 x 21. Weight in Grams: 480. . 2014. Hardcover. . . . .

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Title: Reconstructing Church: Tools for Turning Your Congregation Around
Publisher: Alban Institute, Inc
Publication Date: 2014
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1566997623
ISBN 13: 9781566997621
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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The general decline of American mainline Protestant churches today is well documented. Church redevelopment―imagining and actualizing new life for dying churches―is a productive and vital response to congregational decline, but it can be daunting. Here is guidebook for church leaders, to help them reinvigorate their churches with both practical advice and tested theory. A comprehensive case study of Beneficent Congregational Church, which successfully turned the tide and quadrupled its worship attendance, provides inspiration as well as concrete strategies for church redevelopment. The study indicates that successful and faithful church redevelopment involves a shift from a modern-patronage ministry model to a postmodern-plural ministry model.

Building on current church redevelopment literature by bringing selected Biblical and theological texts into conversation with leadership concepts, systems theory, social sciences, and congregational studies, this book creates a multidisciplinary transformative conversation. The result is both strategic proposals for growing your church and a model for doing practical theology in your own ministry context. Dedicated, trained leadership in cooperation with the power of the Spirit can create the possibility of new life in dying congregations.

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Rev. Todd Grant Yonkman (D. Min) is Senior Co-Minister at the Beneficent Congregational Church in Providence, RI. He received his doctorate of Ministry from Andover Newton Theological School where he was honored as a member of the Jonathan Edwards Society. He’s also written for the United Church News. He and his wife and Co-Minister, Nicole, live in Providence, Rhode Island.

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