Evangelism & Mission

Growth without comprimising your message and mission. What Drives Your Church? 'The Purpose-Driven Church has brought focus and direction to more pastors and church leaders than you can count. What a gift! I can't imagine anyone who's serious about the church not reading it.

Remixing the Church makes a unique and original contribution to debates about emerging church, by offering a clear and dynamic model of how church traditions change over time.

'Hospitality, Service, Proclamation' seeks to demystify the interfaith project. Written for ordinands and those preparing to minister in neighbourhoods where interfaith and intercultural dialogue are essential, Tom Wilson argues that rather than a fret to churches, interfaith dialogue is an important tool for discipleship.

Creating Missional Worship explores how contemporary context and Anglican liturgical tradition can be fused together to create engaging and transformative worship.

A practical handbook to help churches recover confidence in their mission and ministry through conversations on the theme of blessing.

Ten years on from their first book, 'Evangelism: Which way now?' - still a valued and much recommended resource - Mark Ireland and Mike Booker aim to take people a step further.

In Matthew 11:15, Jesus says, 'Whoever has ears, let them hear'. How do we make sure we are saying things in a way that invites all people - no matter their background - to engage with what it means to be church today? This colourful, engaging and practical book will help leaders and members alike be more mindful of how they ‘communicate church’ both inside and outside of it within our dynamic

Now updated and enlarged, this book is packed with simple, good advice and effective ideas for generating the right kind of publicity for your church and its mission.

Churches are growing. This prophetic and inspirational handbook by church growth expert Bob Jackson explores a variety of growing churches to identify what is making the difference between them and churches which are static or declining.

The recent Church Growth Research (see www.churchgrowthresearch.org.uk) identifies that the successful transmission of faith to children and young people is a key factor in stemming decline and promoting growth. This book explores the cultural and theological reasons as to why this is the case and makes research-based recommendations for the faith formation of children and young people.

Why are boys so under-represented in churches? Why do churches find it so difficult to cater for boys? What would help boys in church grow into mature men of faith?

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Jesus appears to be revealing himself to Muslims through powerful dreams and visions throughout the Islamic world today, and the results are dramatic. In 'Dreams and Visions' Tom Doyle takes the reader deep into the heart of the Middle East to meet believers who have been directly touched by the very hand of God.

The call to Christian discipleship is a call to adventure. Holy Habits explores the nature of that adventure through a rich mix of biblical material and inspiring stories. Both the nature and the nurture of discipleship are explored. The life-giving, transforming role of ten habits are re-imagined for personal and community life today.

Sharing your faith with family and friends. Randy Newman equips ordinary Christians to share our faith in Jesus with those who know us well. Realistic and honest about how family relationships can work, he provides secure biblical underpinning for our conversations, true stories to encourage us and practical guidance on approaches that, with God's Spirit, can work.

Until now, Fresh Expressions has been about starting and sustaining mission initiatives among people with little or no church contact. As these projects mature, pastoral problem easily arise – how do you integrate the old with the new?

John Stott's classic volume, first published forty years ago, presents an enduring view of Christian mission that is just as needed today. Newly updated and expanded by Christopher J. H. Wright, 'Christian Mission in the Modern World' provides a biblically based approach to mission that addresses both spiritual and physical needs.

'What this book makes clear is that inclusion is no mere political stance in a current church struggle...It is the conviction of the author that the passion to include is deep in the heart of God, and therefore belongs in every human too' Peter Selby

This practical and theological guide to rural ministry comes from the Arthur Rank Centre, the national resource and training centre for rural churches of all denominations. It runs courses and conferences in rural ministry and this practical book has emerged from its many areas of expertise and experience.

We like to think of our churches as welcoming. Michael Harvey, an expert on church growth, asks, 'How welcoming can we be if we don't take our welcome outside with the gift of an invitation?' God sent his son to invite us all into a relationship, and so to be like God is to be a person who invites.