Breaking the huddle
Subtitle: how your community can grow its witness
By: Don Everts, Doug Schaupp, and Val Gordon
Publisher: IVP Books, an imprint of InterVarsity Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780830844913
Subjects: Communities; Church growth; Evangelistic work; Christianity
Description: "Most Christians are stuck in the huddle. Even though we believe in outreach, most communities tend to focus on our own needs. That turns us into insular groups without many relationships with outsiders. So evangelism is occasional and conversions are rare. How do we change? In their groundbreaking book I Once Was Lost, Don Everts and Doug Schaupp identified five thresholds that individuals cross when they shift from being skeptics to followers. Now they and Val Gordon show how huddled communities can become witnessing communities and then conversion communities, where evangelistic growth becomes the new normal. The authors have studied the growth of congregations, what enhances and limits them, and have gathered best practices for transformation. Our churches and fellowships can become places where evangelism is not done by a just few people, but where the whole community itself becomes a winsome, thriving witness to those around it. Break out of the huddle. Find out how." -- ‡c From Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: A case for hope; title: Types of communities; title: Huddled communities: limited witness; title: Witnessing communities: engaged in witness; title: Conversion communities: aligned around witness; title: Macrostrategies for breaking the huddle; title: Nurture discipleship momentum; title: Mobilize relational evangelism; title: Macrostrategies for becoming a conversion community; title: Embrace god movements; title: Align vision, structures and people; title: Leadership lessons; title: Leading your community through change; title: Be the change; title: Great joy in the work.