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People don't set out to build their faith upon myths and spiritual
urban legends. But somehow such falsehoods keep showing up in the
way that many Christians think about life and God. These goofy
ideas and beliefs are assumed by millions to be rock-solid truth .
. . until life proves they're not. The sad result is often a
spiritual disaster-confusion, feelings of betrayal, a distrust of
Scripture, loss of faith, anger toward both the church and God.
But it doesn't have to be so. In this delightfully personal and
practical book, respected Bible teacher Larry Osborne confronts ten
widely held beliefs that are both dumb "and" dangerous. Beliefs
like these:
- Faith can fix anything
- God brings good luck
- Forgiving means forgetting
- Everything happens for a reason
- A godly home guarantees good kids
...and more.
Get ready to be shocked, relieved, and inspired in the pages of
"Ten Dumb Things Smart Christians Believe." Because the truth is
meant to set us free . . . not hurt us.
Learn the secrets to building and maintaining a healthy,
productive, and unified ministry team that sticks together for the
long haul. Serving as a church leader can be a tough calling.
Whatever your role, odds are you've known your share of the
frustration and disillusionment that comes with turf battles,
conflicting vision, and marathon meetings. You may have asked
yourself, "How did it get this way?" With twenty years of
front-line ministry experience, Larry Osborne understands
congregations (as baffling as they can sometimes be) and he know
how the best-intentioned teams can become disrupted and disunified.
With this book, he aims to shore up the foundation of a healthy
team--what does a unified and thriving church leadership look like
and how can it be achieved? Sticky Teams is divided into three main
sections, dealing with key aspects of what it takes to develop
long-term, efficient harmony: Landmines and Roadblocks exposes the
organizational structures, policies, and traditions that can
unintentionally sabotage even the best of teams. You'll discover
strategies for managing conflicts and getting around obstacles.
Equipped for Ministry explores what it takes to get everyone on the
same page and headed in the same direction. Chapters deal with
practical tips for board, staff, and congregational alignment.
Communication examines what it takes to keep everyone on the same
page, with a special emphasis on some especially dicey areas and
issues of ministry, such as conversations about money. Whatever
your situation; from start-up phase, to mid-sized, to megachurch,
Osborne has been there. As the pastor of North Coast Church, he's
walked his board, staff, and congregation through the process of
becoming more genuinely unified, and, because of that, better able
to carry out God's design for his church. With warm encouragement
and insight, he shares expertise that most pastors and leadership
teams learn only from long experience: how to invest the time to
create church harmony and how to lead so that unity is maintained
long-term.
In Sticky Church, author and pastor Larry Osborne makes the case
that closing the back door of your church is even more important
than opening the front door wider. He offers a time-tested strategy
for doing so: sermon-based small groups that dig deeper into the
weekend message and tightly velcro members to the ministry. It s a
strategy that enabled Osborne s congregation to grow from a handful
of people to one of the larger churches in the nation---without any
marketing or special programming. Sticky Church tells the inspiring
story of North Coast Church s phenomenal growth and offers
practical tips for launching your own sermon-based small group
ministry. Topics include: Why stickiness is so important Why most
of our discipleship models don t work very well Why small groups
always make a church more honest and transparent What makes groups
grow deeper and sticker over time Sticky Church is an ideal book
for church leaders who want to start or retool their small group
ministry---and velcro their congregation to the Bible and each
other"
The Problem of God explores answers to the most difficult questions
raised against Christianity. A skeptic who became a Christian and
then a pastor, author Mark Clark grew up in an atheistic home.
After his father's death, he began a skeptical search for truth
through the fields of science, philosophy, and history, eventually
finding answers in the last place he expected: Christianity. In a
winsome, persuasive, and humble voice, The Problem of God responds
to the top ten interrogations people bring against God, and
Christianity, including: Does God even exist in the first place?
What do we do with Christianity's violent history? Is Jesus just
another myth? Can the Bible be trusted? Why should we believe in
Hell anymore today? Each chapter answers the specific challenge
using a mix of theology, philosophy, and science. Filled with
compelling stories and anecdotes, The Problem of God presents an
organized and easy-to-understand range of apologetics, focused on
both convincing the skeptic and informing the Christian. The book
concluding with Christianity's most audacious assertion: how should
we respond to Jesus' claim that he is God and the only way to
salvation.
Pastor, author, and leadership consultant unpacks instruction for
church leaders found in 1 Peter 5:1-4 where they are exhorted to
shepherd the flock among them.Some instruction is timeless.
Regardless of the age in which we live, certain instruction carries
no expiration on its relevance. Pastor, author, and leadership
consultant, Larry Osborne has discovered this to be the case with
instruction on how to be a good leader. The best, most practical
advice comes from the Bible, and in particular, 1 Peter 5:1-4. It's
in this short passage where leaders are exhorted to shepherd the
flock among them.Unfortunately, most modern leaders have precious
little experience tending sheep, and many of the implications that
were well understood when Peter penned these words are lost on
today's reader. Osborne finds the parallels to be numerous,
well-worth reviewing and understanding anew.A shepherd leads them
to water even when they fear it. A shepherd never allows one sick
lamb to destroy the flock. A shepherd lays down his life for his
sheep . . .When leaders truly understand Peter's words of
exhortation to lead like a shepherd, then they will begin to see
the path that leads them to Leading Well.
Planting and leading churches is a difficult calling. It can put
strain on your mental and physical health, on your relationships
with others, and even your relationship with God. Sifted offers
practical guidance and hope for anyone going through a tough time
in ministry or pastoral work. Founding pastor of New Hope Christian
Fellowship in Honolulu, Hawaii Wayne Cordeiro speaks the truth in
love, offering wisdom and insight to walk alongside leaders as they
face the challenges and hardships of planting and leading churches,
while providing encouragement and inspiration for the journey. A
seasoned church leader, Wayne shares the things he wishes he'd
known when he was starting a new church. With additional stories
from Francis Chan and Larry Osborne, each chapter includes a
thought-provoking challenge question to develop a heart that is
surrendered to God, focused on "being and becoming" versus "doing
and accomplishing." Wayne will walk you through how to develop a
healthy balance of personal care and spiritual leadership. But
instead of a "how to" book on models and methods from men who have
it all figured out, Sifted will help you process your journey in a
way that: Challenges leaders' common scorecards of success.
Encourages leaders to realize that they are not alone in what they
are experiencing. Provides wisdom for the long haul to position
younger leaders for a life of ministry. You many find yourself in a
season of sifting. If you respond correctly, this season can be
every bit as important as the time of harvest. Sifting builds the
muscle of faith, giving us what we need for what lies just around
the corner.
Sticky Leaders begins with the topic that most books about
innovation avoid altogether: failure. Most books on leadership make
it sound as if successful innovation is the end result of a
carefully followed formula. But you can't have innovation without
change. The simple fact is that when it comes to any new venture,
failure is the surest result of the inevitable change process.
Respected pastor and author, Larry Osborne, explains how
understanding this dirty little secret behind innovation can bring
both stability and creativity to organizations, especially those
with teams of people that focus on innovation, creativity, new
ideas, and problem-solving. In Sticky Leaders, you'll learn: How to
encourage innovation's most powerful igniters and accelerators How
to avoid the most common killers of innovation How to recognize and
break through ceilings of complexity and competency The six
pitfalls of growth and what you can do to avoid them The three
questions every leader needs to ask before launching any new
endeavor The counterintuitive practices that successful change
agents and serial innovators use to greatly increase their odds of
success. Using the wisdom and principles found in this book, you
will be prepared to lead dynamically without causing uncertainty or
insecurity in your organization or ministry.
Church planting has become a cottage industry. National
conferences, hip planting organizations, and all-in-one resource
kits celebrate the thrill of pioneering a church and inspire
visions of glorious victories. Yet few who respond to the call are
warned what they'll actually encounter: the relentless opposition
they'll endure; the eventual scattering of their entire core group;
the failure of their tried-and-true, field-tested system. Here's
the dirty little secret of church planting: the roadside is strewn
with casualties. Many have closed their churches. Some left
ministry permanently. Others abandoned the faith altogether. Church
planting is at once the greatest and most grueling ministry work on
earth. This book is for those toiling in the trenches, those about
to bail out, and those considering jumping in. It's for the church
planters laboring and struggling, seeing little movement, and
wondering what they're doing wrong or why God is failing them. It's
also for mother churches, planting organizations, and
denominations, as a challenge to rethink and re-calibrate the way
they approach and measure planting endeavors. The Honest Guide to
Church Planting is a fresh and candid conversation about the
challenges and joys of planting new churches. Tom Bennardo speaks
the truth so that those involved in church planting can embrace a
more accurate and realistic picture of what planting a church is
really like; one that not only enables them to survive, but to
thrive in this wondrous work.
Zealous faith can have a dangerous, dark side. While recent calls
for radical Christians have challenged many to be more passionate
about their faith, the down side can be a budding arrogance and
self-righteousness that "accidentally" sneaks into our outlook. In
Accidental Pharisees, bestselling author Larry Osborne diagnoses
nine of the most common traps that can ensnare Christians on the
road to a deeper life of faith. Rejecting attempts to turn the call
to follow Christ into a new form of legalism, he shows readers how
to avoid the temptations of pride, exclusivity, legalism, and
hypocrisy, Larry reminds us that attempts to fan the flames of
full-on discipleship and call people to Christlikeness should be
rooted in love and humility. Christians stirred by calls to radical
discipleship, but unsure how to respond, will be challenged and
encouraged to develop a truly Christlike zeal for God.
People are leaving the church J.D. Greear pastors. Big givers. Key
volunteers. Some of his best leaders and friends. And that's
exactly how he wants it to be. When Jesus gave his disciples the
Great Commission, he revealed that the key for reaching the world
with the gospel is found in sending, not gathering. Though many
churches focus time and energy on attracting people and counting
numbers, the real mission of the church isn't how many people you
can gather. It's about training up disciples and then sending them
out. The true measure of success for a church should be its sending
capacity, not its seating capacity. But there is a cost to this. To
see ministry multiply, we must release the seeds God has placed in
our hands. And to do that, we must ask ourselves whether we are
concerned more with building our kingdom or God's. In Gaining By
Losing, J.D. Greear unpacks ten plumb lines that you can use to
reorient your church's priorities around God's mission to reach a
lost world. The good news is that you don't need to choose between
gathering or sending. Effective churches can, and must, do both.
Rational and methodical, systems analysis has been used
successfully by business, industry, and research organizations.
This new edition employs basic elements from the business world to
show users how to apply systems analysis effectively to any library
setting. Updating Osborne and Nakamura's previous work, the book
fills a tremendous need in the field. It introduces readers to the
steps in the process-from identifying and defining problems and
collecting and analyzing data to selecting strategies for
implementation and proof of the systems. The limitations of systems
analysis, an overview of the rationale for applying it to problem
situations, and many real-life examples illustrate the principles.
A new chapter on object-oriented techniques, additional
idea-generating techniques, and the inclusion of case studies
invites readers to put these principles into practice. Practical
and easy-to-read, this work will benefit students of information
studies as well as professionals in the field, particul
Ninguna persona busca edificar su fe sobre mitos y leyendas urbanas
espirituales. Pero, de alguna manera estas mentiras surgen en la
forma que lo cristianos piensan acerca de su vida y de Dios.
Millones de personas asumen estas ideas y creencias tontas como
verdades infalibles, hasta que la vida les prueba lo contrario. El
triste resultado es a menudo un desastre espiritual, la confusion,
sentirse traicionado, desconfianza en las Escrituras, perdida de la
fe y rabia contra Dios y la iglesia. Pero no tiene que ser asi. En
este libro practico y encantadoramente personal, el respetado
maestro de la Biblia, Larry Osborne, enfrenta diez tontas y
peligrosas creencias ampliamente generalizadas como: *La fe puede
solucionar cualquier problema *Dios trae la buena suerte *Perdonar
significa olvidar *Todo pasa por una razon *La santidad en el hogar
garantiza hijos buenos y mas. Preparese para ser asombrado,
encontrar alivio y ser inspirado en las paginas de 10 Cosas tontas
que creen los cristianos inteligentes. Porque la verdad nos debe
hacer libres no hacernos dano."
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