Church That Works: Your One-Stop Resource for Effective Ministry

The expertise of veteran church consultant and best-selling author Gary McIntosh is now available in an easily portable format. McIntosh offers readers his invaluable insights on the church in order to help leaders make their churches more effective. It's just like hiring your own church consultant, but at a fraction of the cost. This at-a-glance practical guidebook helps pastors and church leaders with a wide variety of issues, including:-reaching different generations-assimilating visitors-following trends-designing worship-danger signs of decline-and many more. Short, to-the point chapters examine trends and ministry methods that can be easily adapted to fit every church's needs.

Gary McIntosh is a professor of Christian Leadership and Ministry at Talbot School of Theology at Biola University. He is editor of Church Growth Network and the Journal of American Church Growth. He has written or cowritten a dozen books. A former pastor, McIntosh now works as a consultant who has diagnosed more than 500 churches in 53 different denominations. He has conducted nearly 150 workshops for pastors and leads about 15 national seminars a year.