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You Are Created for More.Our hearts are filled with all types of longings--yearnings for contentment, satisfaction, and happiness. We all want to be part of something greater than ourselves. Yet our biggest temptation is to try to satisfy those longings by seeking after more money and more stuff. That is junk food for our souls, full of quickly fading pleasure that leaves us unhealthier than we were before.We deeply desire God and the good gif...

Explore the Ten Crucial Questions about Launching a New Church SiteOne of the most powerful and effective ways to reach our world for Jesus is to plant new churches. Establishing a new church site focuses a congregation outward--on the spiritual needs of the people in the surrounding community. That, in turn, energizes church members and fuels healthy church growth in both the sending church and the start-up church.Jess Rainer, an experienced ...

Opportunity Lies Right Down the Road.There's hope for your church. Respected church expert Sam Rainer envisions an exciting new wave of revitalized neighborhood churches that are growing and thriving. In the not-so-distant past, churches tended to relocate away from their neighborhoods and build large campuses at major intersections. At the turn of the 21st century, a dramatic shift occurred: A new generation began looking to neighborhood chur...

A convenient and easy way for pastors to ask for the prayer support they desperately need."Will you pray for me?" is a question pastors hear every day. But when have you heard a pastor ask that question for themselves? Frankly, it's rare. That was the question Thom Rainer asked his congregation. The response was overwhelming. Within two days, more than one hundred people committed to praying for him, and the church was transformed over the nex...

Everything you need to grasp God's big picture in Scripture so you can dive deeper into each book of the Bible.Every single word in the Bible is powerful and purposeful. But too often we can be guilty of thinking that the details of God's plan for us must be buried in obscurity somewhere in the vastness of the Bible--as if we're missing God because we missed that tiny iota subscript in the original Greek. What if it is the opposite? What if ou...

Vision and Hope for the Future of Your ChurchIn the midst of heartbreak and struggle, here's hope. Thom Rainer reveals insights he has gathered from thousands of surveys of church leaders and in-person consultations. This book serves as a handy personal consultant to help you prepare your church for the post-quarantine world and identify key opportunities for your congregation, includingbetter ways to lead the gathered church, a moment to reth...

Who is God? Why am I here? How should I live? These are a few of the crucial questions about life that must be answered. What's exciting is that God has provided those answers in Scripture. In I Believe, Thom Rainer outlines the essentials of the Christian faith in a clear and succinct way. You'll learn about prayer, church, angels, heaven, the Trinity, and much more.Read and discuss these Christian beliefs in a small group at your local churc...

There is hope. God can save your church.In this book, Thom Rainer reveals seven findings of revived churches. Through new research, he figuratively dissects hundreds of churches that were on the path toward death. But they turned around. They revitalized. They did so in the face of facts and naysayers who told them it could not be done. Today, three out of four churches are declining in our nation, and twenty percent of churches are close to d...

A church leadership fable about how to combat the silent killer of churches.Oliver, lead pastor of Connection Church, couldn't put his finger on why he felt so unsettled. Everything seemed to be going right at Connection--that was until he asked a task force what had happened to one church member: Jill. Oliver couldn't have known how his one simple question could lead to an unraveling of what was really happening within the church.In this book...

What does it really mean to be a Christian?In a world where everything from sports to politics, social media to podcasts, and movies to television vies for our attention, we need to get back to what is essential. I Am a Christian Participant's Guide helps people grasp who they are in Christ and what their participation means to their local church through an eight-session workbook designed for use with the companion DVD experience (sold separat...

In this concise book, respected pastor, author, and church consultant Thom Rainer explains how the local church is God's primary plan for reaching the world with his love. "I am a Christian" and "I am a church member" go hand in hand.What does it really mean to be a Christian? In a world where everything from sports to politics, social media to podcasts, and movies to television vies for our attention, we need to get back to what is essential....

Spend the next 30 days reaching your community in prayer and learn what it means to be a Great Commission Christian.Pray & Go is a profound and easy-to-use tool that empowers church members to focus outward and learn how to pray regularly. There's hope. Imagine your congregation devoted to prayer. Envision a healthy and growing church dedicated to worshiping Jesus.Our neighborhoods need prayer like never before. Pray & Go is designed to provid...

Breakout Churches Can Your Church Become One?This is the story of thirteen churches and the leaders who moved them from stagnancy to growth and from mediocrity to greatness. Drawing on one of the most comprehensive studies ever on the church, this book reveals the process of becoming a 'breakout' church and the factors that lead to this spiritual metamorphosis. Eighty percent of the approximately 400, 000 churches in the United States are eith...

Discover a Natural Way to Share the Love of Christ.Think about an incredibly joyful event in your life. Perhaps you got a job you desperately wanted or you were really proud of something you made. Do you remember how you couldn't wait to talk about it? You were willing and eager to have a conversation about it with anyone who would listen! Why doesn't our excitement for Jesus overflow from our lives in a similar and natural way?In this book, T...

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Discover a Natural Way to Share the Love of Christ. Think about an incredibly joyful event in your life. Perhaps you got a job you desperately wanted or you were really proud of something you made. Do you remember how you couldn't wait to talk about it? You were willing and eager to have a conversation about it with anyone who would listen! Why doesn't our excitement for Jesus overflow from our lives in a similar and natural way?

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