Elmer L. Towns Książki

Get your entire church involved in planting a new church.Churches that Multiply is a Bible study from the book of Acts designed to give your church a vision of how you can grow. Catch the fire for spreading the good news and put principles from Acts back into action!This Bible study takes a look how the early church spread the Gospel and compares their approach to today's methods for church growth. You'll learn from their experiences and use what works best for you, as you form a step-by-step strategy to meet the individual needs of your new church.Church members will help plant your new church as they: Receive prayer assignments, helping them get a vision and burden for a new churchLearn how to reach out to the unchurchedTake surveys to evaluate attitudes, resources, and personnel for a new church.Coordinate resources with other churches and denominational leadersResearch community plans and resources to determine where a new church should be locatedTake exploratory trips to new neighborhoods to look at potential areas for new churchesA hands-on approach to church planting that equips the most important members of the team—your church!

Sunday School Teacher Elmer L. Towns and Pastor Stan Toler give us a visionary look at the Sunday School of the future-and definitely like what they see. That's provided, of course, we begin today to build the Sunday Schools that will revitalize the Church and thereby ensure its long-term growth. This companion to What Every Sunday School Teacher Should Know is a practical, exciting wake-up call for every pastor who has a nagging notion that the Sunday School program is not the dynamic catalyst for growth that it should be.

The only unanswered prayer of "That they may be one" If a family can have a dream home...If a working person can have a dream job...If Martin Luther King can dream of a day when all races live together in peace...Surely then, God can dream of a day when His children work together in unity. God's Dream Team is his church - unified, reaching its potential in power. Five times in John 17, Jesus prayed "that they may be one..." hoping, perhaps, that emphasis might make His dream come true. Too often, we perceive man's will as weak, yet it is strong enough that God himself will not violate it. So, only God's refusal to violate man's will-and man's resistant nature - leave Jesus' prayer unanswered. His dream is in our hands. Let's answer His call to unity and make His dream come true.