Serving in Your Church Prayer Ministry
Title | Serving in Your Church Prayer Ministry PDF eBook |
Author | Charles E. Lawless |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 116 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0310247586 |
This compact prayer manual shows how to build and participate in a praying church and includes stories and examples from a cross section of churches, evaluation charts, and discussion questions so both church staff and lay leaders can use it individually or in group settings.
What People Ask about the Church
Title | What People Ask about the Church PDF eBook |
Author | Dale A. Robbins |
Publisher | |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Church |
ISBN | 9780964802209 |
Zondervan Practical Ministry Guides
Title | Zondervan Practical Ministry Guides PDF eBook |
Author | Chuck Lawless |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2003-10 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780310644675 |
Zondervan Practical Ministry Guides provide you with simple, practical insights for serving in today's churches. Written by experienced pastors and church workers, these easy-to-read, to-the-point booklets address the fundamentals of different ministries as practiced effectively in real life. You'll find biblical insight and wise, field-tested advice you can apply today, as well as discussion questions to help you think through and integrate what you read. This compact prayer manual shows how to build and participate in a praying church and includes stories and examples from a cross section of churches, evaluation charts, and discussion questions so that both church staff and lay leaders can use it individually or in group settings.
The Prayer Ministry of the Church
Title | The Prayer Ministry of the Church PDF eBook |
Author | Watchman Nee |
Publisher | Living Stream Ministry |
Pages | 89 |
Release | 1995-03 |
Genre | Prayer |
ISBN | 0870838601 |
Prayer Ministry of the Church is a collection of five messages on prayer by the great Chinese pastor and teacher, Watchman Nee.
Still Time to Care
Title | Still Time to Care PDF eBook |
Author | Greg Johnson |
Publisher | Zondervan |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2021-12-07 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0310116066 |
At the start of the gay rights movement in 1969, evangelicalism's leading voices cast a vision for gay people who turn to Jesus. It was C.S. Lewis, Billy Graham, Francis Schaeffer and John Stott who were among the most respected leaders within theologically orthodox Protestantism. We see with them a positive pastoral approach toward gay people, an approach that viewed homosexuality as a fallen condition experienced by some Christians who needed care more than cure. With the birth and rise of the ex-gay movement, the focus shifted from care to cure. As a result, there are an estimated 700,000 people alive today who underwent conversion therapy in the United States alone. Many of these patients were treated by faith-based, testimony-driven parachurch ministries centered on the ex-gay script. Despite the best of intentions, the movement ended with very troubling results. Yet the ex-gay movement died not because it had the wrong sex ethic. It died because it was founded on a practice that diminished the beauty of the gospel. Yet even after the closure of the ex-gay umbrella organization Exodus International in 2013, the ex-gay script continues to walk about as the undead among us, pressuring people like me to say, "I used to be gay, but I'm not gay anymore. Now I'm just same-sex attracted." For orthodox Christians, the way forward is a path back to where we were forty years ago. It is time again to focus with our Neo-Evangelical fathers on care--not cure--for our non-straight sisters and brothers who are living lives of costly obedience to Jesus. With warmth and humor as well as original research, Still Time to Care will chart the path forward for our churches and ministries in providing care. It will provide guidance for the gay person who hears the gospel and finds themselves smitten by the life-giving call of Jesus. Woven throughout the book will be Richard Lovelace’s 1978 call for a "double repentance" in which gay Christians repent of their homosexual sins and the church repents of its homophobia--putting on display for all the power of the gospel.
War Room Bible Study - Bible Study Book
Title | War Room Bible Study - Bible Study Book PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Kendrick |
Publisher | B&H Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015-06 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9781430040354 |
War Room Bible Study Book includes 5 scriptural lessons and inspiring movie clips found in the new Kendrick Brothers' movie War Room. This short series provides a variety of heart-felt and/or humorous movie scenes and Bible study sessions that can be used in a corporate church message series or a small group Bible study setting. Session topics include: Dealing with Spiritual Lukewarmness, Christian Accountability, Grasping Grace and the Gospel, Engaging in Spiritual Warfare, and Trusting God in Prayer.
Together in Prayer
Title | Together in Prayer PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew R. Wheeler |
Publisher | InterVarsity Press |
Pages | 185 |
Release | 2010-01-04 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0830878378 |
Prayer is intimidating. Yet prayer is a gift from God to all of us, and group prayer binds us to one another in ways that no other activity can. Andrew R. Wheeler lays the groundwork for establishing a responsible, meaningful prayer ministry in your small group. Here you'll find guidelines for praying in groups, common pitfalls of communal prayer, and suggestions for spurring your group onward.