Is your church facing a period of change? Are you overwhelmed with too much to do? Or are you searching for a new vision? If you are looking to take your church in a new direction, then How to Develop Your Local Church can help you decide which path to follow. Written by an experienced practitioner, it will help you to understand your congregation better: how it operates, what its members take for granted, what their priorities are and what the 'character' of the congregation is. The book then explains some of the reasons for frustration and conflict in church life, and points to positive ways forward, giving guidance on planning and decision-making. Just as no two churches are the same, there is no 'one-size-fits-all' answer to how your church might develop. Rather, it is only by drawing upon the collective wisdom of the local congregation that worthwhile change will begin to happen.

Richard Impey

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About the authors

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Copyright

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Preface

Introduction

Part 1 Discovering our practical wisdom

1. Our story

2. Numbers make a difference

3. The purposes of local churches

4. Our outlook on the world

5. Stages on a life cycle

6. The importance of home

7. Our context limits us and gives us scope

Part 2 Working with our practical wisdom

8. Wisdom and development

9. Wisdom is a way of life

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Impey, Richard

This book focuses on the role and nature of the local church/congregation rather than on the work of ordained ministers or lay people. Written by an experienced practitioner it will help readers - both lay and ordained - understand their congregation better.

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Engaging, thorough, stimulating, visual and vital would be some of the instant responses on reading this unique contribution to pastoral leadership! Richard Impey brings a rooted yet aspirational heartbeat to ministry through the most diagrammatically rich ministry book I have ever encountered. Much research and resources on outlooks, inertia &amp; impetus, life cycles, practical wisdom and so much more are truly manifest in each segment of this varied yet cogent resource. The most striking theme surrounding wisdom, love and the gospel embodied lingers on for this reader as the discernment of Gods working 'with' the revealed counsel of the congregation is consistently and clearly celebrated. Lone- ranger visionary leaders beware!! Written by an experienced practitioner, it will help you to understand your congregation better: how it operates, what its members take for granted, what their priorities are and what the ‘character’ of the congregation is. Just as no two churches are the same, there is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ answer to how your church might develop. Many have promised; this book really delivers! Perhaps strangely my only wish would have been for more story, more self-disclosure and for it to continue!

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