Synopses & Reviews
No matter how you ask the questions, the answer is always the same. Yes you can! You can incorporate innovative strategies into your church ministrystrategies that will affect not only the way you do church but that will dramatically impact the lives of current church members and help you in reaching out to your community.
In this refreshingly practically book, Andy Stanley and Ed Youngtwo of America's most innovative and effective church leadersdeliver twenty-four creative ministry tools that you can adapt and use to help your own church be all God intends it to be.
The inspirational stories on North Point Community Church in Atlanta and the Fellowship Church in Dallas are stories of small church plants that have grown into churches with weekend attendance of nine and fifteen thousand. But the true success of these dynamic churches is not revealed in their big numbers but in the lives that have been forever changed by the life-giving message of Jesus.
What you learn in the pages of this book will enable you to change the lives of those you serve -- forever.
About the Author
Ed Young is the founding and senior pastor of Fellowship Church in the heart of Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas. Since 1990, the church has grown to over twenty thousand in weekend attendance. Ed also shares his creative communication style in his daily radio broadcast, Creative Connection. Ed is the author of Know Fear: Life's Six Most Common Phobias, High Definition Living, and Fatal Distractions. He is coauthor with Andy Stanley on a book for pastors and church leaders entitled Can We Do That? He and his wife, Lisa, have four children.
Table of Contents
Can We Do That by Andy Stanley and Stuart Hall: Contents Acknowledgements
Introduction
Section 1: Reaching Out
1 Invest and Invite
2 Targeting the Unchurched
3 Videotaped Baptism Testimonies
4 Streaming Video
5 Intentional Marketing
6 Making Membership Strategic
7 Closing the deal
Section 2: Ministering to People
8 Kidstuf
9 Aligning Student Ministry
10 Welcome Teams
11 Community Groups
12 Area Fellowship
13 Group Link
14 The Sports Ministry
Section 3: Leading the Church:
15 Church Leadership
16 Ministry Team Representatives
17 Hiring the Right People
18 Storytelling
Section 4: Getting the Message Across
19 Sermon Planning
20 Preaching
21 Creativity
22 Teaching Less for More
23 Integrating Vision
24 Personal Evaluation
App. 1: The History of North Point Community Church
App. 2: The History of Fellowship Church