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- Hardcover: 400 pages ;
Dimensions (in inches): 1.22 x 9.49 x 6.43
- Publisher: Zondervan; ;
(November 27, 1995)
- ISBN: 0310201063
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Book
Description
This is a five-point strategy for
attracting and spiritually maturing the unchurched, from the
pastor of Saddleback Church.
From
the Back Cover
Every church is driven by something.
Tradition, finances, programs, personalities, events, seekers,
and even buildings can each be the controlling force in a
church.
But
Rick Warren believes that in order for a church to be healthy
it must become a purpose-driven church by Jesus. Now the
founding pastor of Saddleback Church shares a proven five-part
strategy that will enable your church to grow. . .
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Warmer through fellowship
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Deeper through discipleship
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Stronger through worship
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Broader through ministry
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Larger through evangelism.
Discover
the same practical insights and principles for growing a
healthy church that Rick has taught in seminars to over 22,000
pastors and church leaders from sixty denominations and
forty-two countries.
The
Purpose-Driven Church® shifts the focus away from church
building programs to emphasizing a people-building
process.
Warren
says, "If you will concentrate on building people, God
will build the church."
The
thesis of The Purpose Driven Church is that when
churches think first about their health, growth is sure
to follow. "If your church is healthy," writes Rick
Warren, "growth will occur naturally.
Healthy,
consistent growth is the result of balancing the five biblical
purposes of the church." These five purposes are to
"Love the Lord with all your heart," "Love your
neighbor as yourself," "Go and make disciples,"
"[Baptize] them," and "[Teach] them to
obey."
And
those purposes can only be accomplished, argues Warren, when
church leaders stop thinking about church-building programs
and shift their focus to a "people-building process"
involving fellowship, discipleship, worship, and
evangelism.
Warren,
the founder of the fastest-growing Baptist church in American
history, has taught seminars to thousands of pastors from all
over the world, many of whom have successfully implemented his
techniques.
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