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Christian Fellowship & Developing Christ-Like Community Books
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Restoring Relationships: The Importance of Forgiving and Being Forgiven By Ralph A. Gwinn In the process of becoming like Christ, there is one essential element that is often overlooked. Because we never get to the place where we no longer sin against God and against one another, forgiveness is essential to maintaining forward motions. In a very real sense, each of us is God's "great work," and He continues to work to make us better likenesses of Christ, both as individuals and together as the Body of Christ. But God's "problem" is that we aren't always as eager for that likeness as He is, and so we drag our feet. Some people even refuse to let Him start the process with them. This book is an attempt to help us understand what is involved in forgiveness, with a view to enriching our lives with God and with one another. |
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Community & Submission, Spiritual Disciplines Bible Studies By Jan Johnson Everyone is part of a community, be it in the workplace, a family or a church. Yet often these communities fall short of what God calls them to be. What does God desire for our relationships with other people? How can we build true community? How does God use community to build us into Christlikeness? This guide covers the disciplines of community and submission. As we practice submitting to God, we develop into people who can build true communities. 6 studies with notes for leaders. |
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Beyond the First Visit: The Complete Guide to Connecting Guests to Your Church By Gary L. McIntosh * Does your church exhibit the gift of hospitality? What is a newcomers' first impression---are they treated as guests by gracious hosts? McIntosh encourages you to look at your church through visitors' eyes. Learn how to assess your current practices and follow-up; discover new tools and techniques for attracting people and create a welcoming attitude. 192 pages, softcover from Baker. |
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The Hospitality Commands: Building Loving Christian Community By Alexander Strauch Hospitality is a crucial element in building Christian community. Hospitality may well be the best means we have to promote close, brotherly love. It is especially important in churches where people really don't know each other or where relationships are superficial, Sunday morning only relationships. Hospitality is also an effective tool for evangelism. Showing Christ's love to others in a home environment may be the only means Christians have to reach their neighbours for Christ. A Christian home can be a lighthouse for God in a spiritually dark neighbourhood. It also contains study questions and assignments for group study, making it an excellent resource for an adult Sunday school class or small group fellowship. |
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Community: Building Relationships Within God's Family, InterActions Series Bill Hybels, Kevin Harney In this series of interactions you will grow in your ability to build healthy relationships and learn to develop and nurture lasting community. Leader's Notes for each chapter are included. |
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Life On Loan: A Church-Wide Experience
From young children to adults of all ages, everybody in your congregation can discover the excitement of building relationships, serving others, and sharing their faith. Revealing how to make a real impact on the world, Rick Rusaw and Eric Swanson's 6-week curriculum includes their 256-page book; adult study guide and DVD; student devotional; children's edition; and promotional materials. |
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Outflow: Generous Living In a Stingy World By David Ping & Steve Sjogren If it is all about God, why do we live as if it is all about us? This book--a cross between a manifesto and a how-to manual--inspires readers to embrace outreach as a lifestyle--a natural, everyday thing that is as normal as going to the grocery store. When church members lead joyful, outward-focused lives, they make powerful connections with family and friends...and those connections are opportunities to share Gods love. Simple and Biblical, too. Outflow inspires a vision for living an outward focused life and provides practical tools to make that vision a reality with:
Steve Sjogren pioneered Servant Evangelism at a church that grew from a handful of members to more than 5,000 members using Outflow principles. |
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Single Not Separate: How to make the church a family By Virginia McInerney Do you battle feeling like an outsider in what seems to be a "couples" church? You are not alone--46 percent of the adult population in the United States is single. It is time to explore new ways to reach, teach and inspire singles in the church. This book addresses common misunderstandings held by both singes and couples. You've heard all the "pat answers": "Just deepen your relationship with Jesus" or "God just wants you all to Himself." Well, here's a fresh look at life while single that will help you: discover new ways to get involved with couples and families that can bring lasting fulfillment and great joy into your life; explore new and exciting ways to deepen your interests and roots within your church and community; and learn how to draw in other singles to make them feel welcome and a part of the big family. Single, Not Separate, a sensitive and sensible application of God's Word offers you new perspective on the single life and shows you how to get connected and use your gifts and talents for the glory of God! |
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Serving From the Heart: Finding Your Gifts and Talents for Service, Participant's Book By Carol Cartmill & Yvonne Gentile This guide helps adults discover their unique gifts and talents for service, the inspiration to serve, and a way to connect with service in your church community. This 4 to 8 week study leads adults through assessing their spiritual gifts, talents and abilities, resources, individual style, dreams and experiences - all adding up to a unique ability to serve God and neighbour. The leader kit includes easy to follow lesson plans for either 8 45 minute sessions or 4 two hour sessions. |
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Stop Dating the Church! Falling in Love with the Family of God By Joshua Harris Christ gave his life for the church, but many of us find it difficult to serve her for an hour or two a week. In Stop Dating the Church best-selling author Joshua Harris boldly challenges us to stop looking for churches that suit our lifestyle and expecting churches to meet our superficial needs. Instead, we should learn to love the church and serve her sacrificially. Take this opportunity to fully commit yourself to the church in the same in the same way that a bride commits herself to the groom. |
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Soul Revolution: How Imperfect People Become All God Intended By John Burke / Zondervan Purpose, success, a better life… we all want it, but does it come to us, or does it come through us? Find out in this 60-day experiment in loving God and loving people. It has proved itself in thousands of lives. Now experience for yourself how moment-by-moment connection to God with wide-open willingness fulfills our deepest longings and transforms us into life-giving people. |
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Restoring the Fallen: A Team Approach to Caring, Confronting & Reconciling By Sandra Wilson When Christians fall into sin, how can we restore them? How can we bring them back into the fellowship with more than a superficial apology? These are vital questions, but so often churches stumble at this critical point. Either we ignore the wrongdoing or we banish the wrongdoer. The authors of this groundbreaking book provide a new model for church discipline with the spiritual care team, a small group of mature Christians who voluntarily commit themselves to support and guide a person with special spiritual needs through a process of restoration. In these pages you will find practical guidance on how to form a spiritual care team, how to support the spouse and family of the person being restored, how to integrate professional helpers and the church into the process, and how to provide ongoing care when the main work of the team is complete. |
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1, 2, 3 John: Comfort and Counsel for a Church in Crisis By W. Hall Harris III The letters of John have traditionally been labeled "general" epistles because no specific destination is mentioned, but an interpretation based on that assumption, that these letters were written to the early church at large, means that concepts such as love for fellow believers must be treated as generic, thus reducing them almost to platitudes. Reading the letters this way, one would not realize that the original author aimed his words at a very specific and deadly serious situation confronted by the group of local congregations to whom he ministered and for which he felt responsibility for oversight. The issues the author confronted shook to the roots the very concept of Christian fellowship itself. They also involved a doctrinal controversy that would ultimately raise the question of the very way in which the Spirit was expected to operate in the ongoing life of the church. |
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Untamed Hospitality By Elizabeth Newman * Christian hospitality is more than food and fellowship. It's also an extension of our relationship with God that should affect our economic, political, and public lives, says Newman. Dispelling modern myths of hospitality as a superficial commodity, she restores it to its rightful place within God's story---displayed most fully in Jesus Christ. 240 pages, softcover from Brazos. |
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A Life That Says Welcome: Simple Ways to Open Your Heart & Home to Others By Karen Ehman When it comes to hospitality, it doesn't matter what size your house is, how it's decorated, whether or not it's spotless, or what you cook or don't cook. The secret to making guests feel comfortable is more about the condition of your heart than the condition of your home. Ehman gives you valuable tips on how to decorate well within a budget, make the most of your space, be prepared for unexpected company and create delicious, simple dishes your guests will enjoy. |
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Welcome to the Family By John MacArthur Know somebody who's just recently put their faith in Christ? Best-selling author and Bible teacher John MacArthur's handy guide provides an easy-reading introduction to the new expectations, vocabulary, and challenges young Christians often encounter; along with tips on how to "plug in" to a church and become part of a fellowship of believers. |
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The Complete Women's Ministries Kit: Everything You Need to Run a Successful Program By Janelle R. Parker Build a successful ministry with this dynamic program! Encouraging women to connect with one another, Parker shares creative ideas for Bible studies, retreats, fellowships, fundraisers, support groups, seminars, and more. Her insights and suggested activities will help you strengthen your church by forging lasting bonds between women. 192 pages, softcover from Beacon Hill. |
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Befriending the Stranger By Jean Vanier In Befriending the Stranger, Jean Vanier reflects on who we are and how we build our communities amid the violence and corruption of the modern world. Through six meditative pieces based on Scripture, Vanier opens up God's invitation to us to create new places of belonging and sharing, of peace and kindness, where each person is loved and accepted. The renewal of the church and the unity of Jesus' followers will come, writes Vanier, as we serve and befriend the poor and unwanted in our societies, and as we learn to live with our own poverty and loneliness. Originally given as talks at a retreat in Latin America for people immersed in assisting the disabled, Vanier's reflections will be welcome words for all who seek to live out God's love. |