BiblioFile Eye Doctors
Eric Reed
July 1, 2000
Studying Congregations:
A New Handbook
edited by Nancy T. Ammerman, Jackson W. Carroll, Carl S. Dudley, and William McKinney (Abingdon, 1999)
Only one chapter is actually about vision and the future. The rest of this handbook is for assessment of your congregation: socially, spiritually, and demographically. Plenty of handouts to test the membership, but you'll have to decide for yourself what to do with the information.
Moving Off the Map:
A Field Guide to Changing the Congregation
by Tom Bandy (Abingdon, 1998)
Full of charts and self-tests, this is a guide to developing vision and congregational support for it. The first section offers 280 assessment questions. The chapters on stages in the process are practical. Bandy assumes a high level of congregational involvement.
God's Vision for your Church:
Find and Fulfill God's Unique Purpose for Your Church
by David Cannistraci (Regal, 1999)
Cannistraci makes the case for corporate spiritual gifts, offers eight "landmarks" for discovering a church's gift, and peppers his recommendations with examples mostly from Pentecostal churches and movements.
Leading with Vision
compiled by Dale Galloway (Beacon Hill, 1999)
Galloway authored three of this book's nine chapters. The rest are by stalwarts Maxie Dunnam, James Earl Massey, John Maxwell, and Elmer Towns.
Effective Pastoring:
Giving Vision, Direction, and Care to Your Church
by Bill Lawrence (Word, 1999)
A broad text on pastoral work. Three chapters address vision. Lawrence's summary of the process is excellent, as is the chapter "Planning for Non-planners." The pages on the Q-2 (second quadrant) board will help pastors whose leaders are mired in the urgent but unimportant stuff of ministry.
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