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God-Size Your Church: Beyond Growth for Growth's Sake
GodSize Your Church Beyond Growth for Growth's Sake Author:John Jackson This new how-to for church growth outlines principles of growth for all sizes of congregations, while emphasizing that church growth is not about numbers, but about fulfilling God's vision for your church's impact on the world. — Church growth isn't about numbers. It's about impact! Using his own experience as founding pastor of Carson Valley Chr... more »istian Center in Minden, Nevada, Pastor John Jackson helps pastors and lay leaders increase the impact of their congregations for their communities and the Kingdom of God. Jackson urges readers to dream God-Sized dreams, offering practical advice for building community and transforming leadership. With varying suggestions for different sizes of churches, Jackson shows you don't have to be a megachurch to have God-sized impact on your community. John Jackson is the founding and Senior Pastor of Carson Valley Christian Center in Minden, Nevada, and the President of VisionQuest Ministries.
From the Circuit Rider review: "A great deal of literature on the uniqueness of congregational life and development has surfaced over the last decade. The growing missional and emergent church movements, the church growth movement, the seeker church movement, the sociological study of congregational life, the resurgence of practical theology for the life of evangelism, the re-establishing of the relationship between practice and doctrine in the Christian life?all point to a renewed interest in how local churches can faithfully embody the gospel in a time of profound cultural change." (Click here to read the entire review.)« less