"The Purpose-Driven(r) Church has brought focus and direction to more pastors and church leaders than you can count. What a gift!"--John Ortberg, bestselling author Every church is driven by something. Tradition, finances, programs, personalities, events, seekers, and even buildings can each be the controlling force in a church. But Rick Warren believes that in order for a church to be healthy …
follow-up to Catch the Vision 2000, this book shows how a local church can integrate hands-on vision planning to be a mobilizing church.
Accomplished author Richard Stoll Armstrong reflects on his own experiences as a pastor-evangelist in order to speak openly and honestly about how a pastor functions with evangelical sensitivity in the roles of visitor, counselor, teacher, discipler, administrator, and public figure. He describes the specific opportunities for evangelism in each of these endeavors
"Encouraging target-group outreach / Frank Tillapaugh -- Preaching evangelistically / Myron Augsburger -- Assimilating newcomers / Calvin Ratz."