Has God called you to plant a new church? Or maybe your church is looking to launch another campus? Do you want to fill your sanctuary with new guests every Sunday? Launch Big: The Complete Digital Marketing Guide for Church Planters is your ultimate source to achieving these goals with proven methods and innovative techniques. After helping hundreds of church planters with digital marketing at ChurchCandy, Brady Sticker breaks down the best strategies for new church plants in this book.

Launch Big offers a step-by-step approach to church planting, focusing on building a committed launch team and using powerful digital marketing strategies to create a significant impact from day one. Whether you're planting a church from scratch or launching a new campus, this book provides you with the tools and insights needed to attract and retain new families, ensuring a vibrant and growing congregation.

Inside, you'll discover:

The Launch Big Method: Learn why starting with a strong, well-prepared team and a substantial marketing push is essential for a successful church plant.Building Your Launch Team: Strategies to recruit, train, and retain a dedicated team to support your church's mission from day one.Social Media Strategies: How to leverage platforms like Facebook and Instagram to create engaging content, build a community, and attract new guests.Proven Paid Ads for Church Plants: How to create effective Facebook and Instagram ad campaigns that drive attendance and engagement.Website & SEO Strategies: Tips on building a compelling landing page and optimizing your online presence to ensure your church is easily found by those searching for a new spiritual home.

Whether you're an experienced pastor or a new church planter, Launch Big: The Complete Digital Marketing Guide for Church Planters will equip you with the knowledge and confidence to launch and grow a thriving church community.

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 death. What are the secrets of the churches who avoided this fate and experienced revival?

In Anatomy of a Revived Church, Thom will show you how these churches experienced renewal. He will cover everything from expanding the scorecard to dealing with toxins to choosing meaningful membership. When you finish reading this book, you will have the tools to strengthen, restore, and energize your church.

You can choose life for your church.

Part of the Loyalty series, Loyalty and Disloyalty deals firmly with the fine line that distinguishes between the two attitudes, and talks about the defining moments we should all be aware of in our own lives, and the lives of those around us. This book is a roadmap for both leaders and followers. As leaders, we need wisdom to guide our sensitivities. Picking up disloyalty early on in those around us can prevent disaster later. Taking action swiftly and firmly is vital. As followers, we need to be keenly aware when our own loyalty to our shepherds is being diverted within ourselves. Though a primary requirement of God for leaders, very little has been written on this subject. In this book, Dag Heward-Mills outlines very important principles, with the intention of increasing the stability of churches. So relevant and practical is the content of this book that it has become an indispensable tool for many church leaders. Dag Heward-Mills is the founder of Lighthouse Chapel International, which has become a worldwide denomination. He is the author of several best-selling books and his radio, TV and internet programs reach millions around the world. Other outreaches include conferences for pastors and ministers, and the renowned Anagkazo Bible Ministry & Training Centre. ... a life-changing book. I believe your life will be greatly enriched and renewed as you absorb and apply the truth it brings to light. Surely it is God's desire that you become a leader who has purpose, and is consistent in your personal life and ministry. You will not only perceive your need to be a great leader, but you will understand how to achieve it with victory and confidence. - John Delgado, President, Vision International University, Florida, USA.

Key Traits of a Healthy Church to Develop within the Local Body

What is an ideal church, and how can you tell? How does it look different from other churches? More importantly, how does it act differently, especially in society? Many of us aren't sure how to answer those questions, even though we probably have some preconceived ideas. This book answers those questions and many more.

Author Mark Dever seeks to help believers recognize the key characteristics of a healthy church: expositional preaching, biblical theology, and a right understanding of the gospel. Dever then calls us to develop those characteristics in our own churches. By following the example of New Testament authors and addressing all members of the church, pastors and laity alike, Dever challenges all believers to do their part in maintaining the local church. Part of the 9Marks Building Healthy Churches series, What Is a Healthy Church? offers timeless truths and practical principles to help each of us fulfill our God-given roles in the body of Christ.

• Offers an Ideal Church Model: Encourages pastors and members to implement healthy church qualities within their local body
• Written by Mark Dever: Pastor, bestselling author, and president of 9Marks
• From 9Marks: Other titles in the Building Healthy Churches series include Church Discipline; Deacons; and Church Membership
• Replaces ISBN 978-1-58134-937-5

Why do churches need a disciplemaking culture?

At the end of his earthly ministry, Jesus commissioned his followers to embrace a way of life making disciples. He extends that mission to us--a way of life rooted in relationship, focused on mutual growth, intentionality, and transformation as we follow Jesus together. Sadly, the activities and events that dominate many churches too often become an end in themselves and actually distract from discipleship. The Great Commission drifts out of focus of the whole church and becomes outsourced to a spiritual elite.

Justin Gravitt wrote The Foundation of a Disciplemaking Culture to help you lay the groundwork for a disciplemaking movement in your church. In this powerful, to-the-point resource, you will learn how to:

• identify and train other disciplemakers who share your passion and vision
• build shared ownership and excitement for making disciples who make disciples
• maintain momentum that spreads from your core team into the community
• re-vision your church culture around the gospel priority of disciplemaking.

A culture of disciplemaking is built and supported by a disciplemaking foundation. This book will equip you with the tools and strategies you need to take the next step in God's mission.

His House, His Presence is about how God took a small prayer meeting above a veterinarian clinic in Dallas to a global prayer and worship movement, known today as UPPERROOM. As founder and senior leader, Michael Miller got revelation that ministry to the Lord is every believer's first and primary calling, he was pruned of his original 'more comfortable' plans to pastor a middle-class suburban church and instead yield his personal leadership gifts and desires to the Lord's perfect leadership. Jesus said, My house will be a house of prayer (Matt. 21:13), and UPPERROOM is now a house of prayer committed to ministering to the Lord every morning, noon and night until Jesus returns. His House, His Presence is God's original design for His church--a resting place for His presence on earth. Relevant to every Christian believer, and especially for faith leaders, Miller's revelations will ignite conviction, simplicity, a return to Jesus, our first love, and a true longing for His return.

The COVID-19 pandemic renewed speculation of the Church's demise, and the wake of global catastrophe heightened clergy burnout. Still, Paul Nixon holds onto fierce hope that life and resurrection are choices the Church and its leaders can still make.

With new material for the post-quarantine era and an and an included discussion guide, the second edition of I Refuse to Lead a Dying Church! provides excellent stimulation for faith leaders to commit to six critical choices:

choosing life over death;
choosing community over isolation;
choosing fun over drudgery;
choosing bold over mild;
choosing frontier over fortress;
and choosing now rather than later.

Looking To Be Part of the Final Move of God? Discover Why Many Are Missing The Mighty Revival Currently Sweeping the Globe.

Arm yourself with the tools necessary to experience a spiritual awakening. This book was written for pastors and evangelists by Jonathan Shuttlesworth, both an evangelist and pastor of Revival Today Church. He identifies the roadblocks preventing churches from experiencing revival and pens an unfiltered message rooted in God's Word that convicts, inspires, and leads to self-reflection for church leaders and evangelists alike. This book will equip you with the strategies necessary to usher revival, empower you to remove barriers to revival, and motivate you to overcome challenges that prohibit you from experiencing a move of God.

You'll Learn To:

-Identify what revival is, what it is not, and how to achieve it.

-Pinpoint hindrances and pitfalls that discourage the move of The Holy Spirit.

-Challenge the status quo, combat stagnancy, and ditch rituals steeped in tradition and religion.

-Take actions necessary to welcome revival and rapid church growth.

-Embrace evangelistic ministry within your church.

A Message from the Author: This book may not have the most uplifting title, but its message is crucial. Revival isn't something you beg for-it's something you facilitate by removing obstacles. Jesus rebuked the Pharisees and Sadducees for their stifling structures, not the sinners of society. Today, many churches have unknowingly erected similar barriers, preventing the Spirit of God from moving. I aim to help you identify and dismantle these barriers to foster an environment where revival can thrive. The battles I've faced, the lessons I've learned, and the victories I've achieved are laid out in this book to guide you toward success.

About the Author: Jonathan Shuttlesworth is an evangelist and founder of Revival Today, a global ministry dedicated to reaching lost and hurting people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He is also the pastor of Revival Today Church, a Holy Spirit-filled, Bible-believing church in Pittsburgh, PA, and Forth Worth, TX, that blesses families and the nation.

Best-selling author and ministry leader Thom S. Rainer drew an exceptional response when he posted a 500-word declaration about church membership to his daily blog. I Am a Church Member started a conversation about the attitudes and responsibilities of church members -- rather than the functional and theological issues -- that previous new member primers all but ignored.
Thoughtfully expanded to book form, I Am a Church Member begins to remedy the outbreak of inactive or barely committed church members, addressing without apology what is expected of those who join a body of believers. When a person's attitude is consistently biblical and healthy, matters of giving, serving, and so forth will fall into place more naturally.
Six intentional chapters with study questions guide this rising discussion:

1. I Will Be a Unifying Church Member
2. I Will Not Let the Church Be About My Preferences and Desires
3. I Will Pray for My Church Leaders
4. I Will Lead My Family to Be Healthy Church Members
5. I Will Be a Functioning Member
6. I Will Treasure Church Membership as a Gift

Los niños utilizan todo su cuerpo para alabar a Dios!

A tu familia le encantará este libro único! Con ilustraciones coloridas y atractivas, «Salmos de adoración nos da la oportunidad de compartir con los más pequeños los Salmos con la lírica provista en la Escritura, permitiendo que usemos las ilustraciones de movimientos corporales cotidianos como posturas de alabanza. Los niños se deleitarán con las hermosas ilustraciones y aprenderán cómo las divertidas formas en que naturalmente mueven sus cuerpos son una parte importante de la adoración.

Los movimientos de los Salmos se acompañan de textos tanto serenos como alegres tomados directamente de la Biblia. Apreciarás el diseño artístico, el contenido teológicamente sólido que nos ayuda a caminar con los más pequeños hacia comprender el verdadero propósito para el cual su cuerpo fue creado: alabar a Dios!

Children Use Their Whole Bodies to Praise God!

Your family will love this unique board book! Using colorful, engaging artwork, «Psalms of Praise introduces little ones to the lyrical Scripture of the Psalms while illustrating how our everyday movements are actually postures of praise. Children will delight in the beautiful illustrations and learn how the fun ways they naturally move their bodies are an important part of worship.

The movements of Psalms are coupled with both calm and joyful texts taken straight from the Bible. You will appreciate the artistic design, theologically sound content, and helping your little one understand the true purpose for which his or her body was created - praising God!

No one wants to see a church die. And yet, far too many churches are dying. For more than twenty-five years, Dr. Thom Rainer has helped churches grow, reverse the trends of decline, and has autopsied those that have died. From this experience, he has discovered twelve consistent themes among those churches that have died. Yet, it's not gloom and doom because from those twelve themes, lessons on how to keep your church alive have emerged.

Whether your church is vibrant or dying, whether you are a pastor or a church member, Autopsy of a Deceased Church will walk you through the radical paths necessary to keep your church alive to the glory of God and advancement of Christ's Kingdom

Since the start of time, man has been searching for ways to live a productive and meaningful life. Everyone goes through this thought process, either consciously or subconsciously. The key to finding that answer is to begin asking the right questions.

A great starting point for asking the right questions is a question I asked myself thirty years ago. That question was, What are my core values, principles, or beliefs? In other words, what is truly important to me. I simplified that question to this--What do I believe?

Going through answering that question led to the creation of my personal I Believe list. This was by far one of the most meaningful and life-changing experiences in my life. My only regret is I didn't ask that question till I was forty-four. Regardless of your age, asking the question (What do I believe?) and creating your personal I Believe list will be one of the most important questions and activities you can do to position yourself to living the productive and meaningful life we all long for.

The Question: A Guide to Answering Life's Most Important Question shares my journey of answering that question and then how I used my responses to guide me on each day's adventure called life.

Fr. Mullady offers a readable and rock-solidly reliable treatment of what is surely the most important -- and debated -- subject in contemporary Catholic theology. His approach to Church doctrine (ecclesiology) demonstrates the profound consistency and coherence of the Magisterium's teaching as it draws from biblical and patristic sources and develops from the medieval to the modern period, culminating in Vatican II's Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (Lumen Gentium). In the process, Fr. Mullady applies a 'hermeneutic of continuity' to show the deep convergence of Vatican I and Vatican II (no small feat!). Along the way, readers gain a renewed sense of the indispensable role of classical Thomism for doing Catholic theology -- with precision, fidelity and flexibility. -- Dr. Scott Hahn

For decades, we have heard the phrase the spirit of the council. Here is the book that will elevate your understanding of the Church by helping you unpack what one of the central documents of the Second Vatican Council -- Lumen Gentium -- really taught and understand it through the lens of traditional Church teachings, history, and philosophy.

As Fr. Mullady explains the supernatural character of the Church and our universal call to holiness, you will discover the authentic character and purpose of the People of God and the unique vocations to which we are called. You will also learn about:

- The trinitarian life of the Church and its role as mystery and sacrament
- Ecumenism and the necessity of the Church for salvation
- Sensus Fidelium and discernment of truth in matters of faith
- Papal and episcopal infallibility and types of doctrine
- Marriage, family, and the mission of the laity in the Church
- The indispensability of the sacramental life for sanctification

As you learn about the role of the Church on earth, you will see how it is the channel through which we receive God's grace to attain Heaven. By growing in understanding of the continuity of teaching, you will be empowered to give a more fervent witness to Christ and the life-giving hope and joy to which we are called.

We are currently experiencing the largest and fastest religious shift in US history.

It is greater than the First and Second Great Awakening and every revival in our country combined...but in the opposite direction. Yet precious little rigorous study has been done on the broad phenomenon of dechurching in America. Jim Davis and Michael Graham have commissioned the largest and most comprehensive study of dechurching in America by renowned sociologists Dr. Ryan Burge and Dr. Paul Djupe.

The Great Dechurching takes the insights gleaned from this study to drill down on how exactly people are dechurching with respect to beliefs, behavior, and belonging.

This book gives the church in America its first ever deep dive into the dechurched phenomenon. You'll learn about the dechurched through a detailed sketch of demographics, size, core concerns, church off-ramps, historical roots, and the gravity of what is at stake. Then you'll explore what can be done to slow the bleed, engage the pertinent issues winsomely and wisely, and hopefully re-church some of the dechurched.

Jesus' instruction to us as his followers was to go and make disciples, but how?

What exactly is a disciple?

How do I become one or help others become one?

This book aims at giving you a practical guide to becoming a disciple or student of Jesus, and will equip you to help others do the same.

It all starts with an invitation to follow.

- James Murray

aninvitationtofollow.com

Break free by exposing the lies of a rejection mindset. Everyone experiences rejection in their life, but few are equipped to overthrow a rejection mindset. Meanwhile, masses of hearts are held back from experiencing the fullness of love in their relationships while being held under the limitation of spiritual slavery. Rejection is a deeply rooted mindset that seeks to steal your ability to experience love, see the power of your identity and experience fruitful relationships. It keeps your heart from experiencing a healthy and fruitful life as a loved child of God. Many people never experience the fullness that is possible because a rejection mindset held them back. Through his work as a transformational consultant, Mark has witnessed the effects of a rejection mindset first-hand. Through his own personal freedom journey and helping many to break from personal limitations, Mark will expose this sinister mindset and give you practical tools to live free. Throughout this book, you will learn to see how this root system of rejection seeks to get itself into every facet of relationships. You will be able to: - Get to the bottom of what causes most of our relationship struggles. - See why so many believers feel far from God and struggle to connect to His love. - Uncover why many of the same cycles of limitation keep occurring. - Face personal insecurities and get an identity upgrade. - Develop a healthier lens in how you approach relationships. - Break out of places where you feel stuck and get a fresh start. It's time to take back who you are and what you were made for. Expose the rejection mindset in your life and walk into your freedom.

Discover Your Place in the Movement of God

An incredible breakthrough in missions history is taking place as disciples of Jesus make more disciples of Jesus around the globe, particularly among the least-reached. But what exactly are these church planting or disciple making movements? Where are they occurring and what are their unifying features? How are they manifesting in diverse populations? And can you or your organization be instrumental in catalyzing more movements? Motus Dei, Latin for movement of God, seeks to answer these questions and more.

Warrick Farah has expertly synthesized an extensive conversation between mission practitioners, scholars, and seasoned movement leaders from around the world. The resulting in-depth analysis of movements provides a multi-disciplinary, academic investigation of an emerging movements missiology, highlighting the importance of theology, social sciences, ethnology and anthropology, communications theory, leadership theory, and statistical analysis. Motus Dei locates the current Church Planting Movement (CPM) phenomenon within modern history, while tracing its roots back to the first century, and articulates a missiological description of the dynamics of Disciple Making Movements (DMMs) in Asia, Africa, and diaspora contexts in the Global North.

Offering over thirty firsthand accounts of indigenous churches planting churches among the nations, Motus Dei provides a seedbed for growing movements in diverse contexts. There are lessons to be learned here by anyone seeking to participate in the movement of God.

The majority of churches in North America today are either plateaued or in decline. Christian values are under siege. Many have concluded that the future of the Church is bleak. But what would happen if Christ came and knocked on the door of your church? Would anything change? Would there be renewed hope? Join the Blackabys as they examine what happened when Christ took control of a little church that was about to die.