Intentional Churches, Doug Parks
Intentional Churches, Doug Parks
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Intentional Churches
How Implementing an Operating System Clarifies Vision, Improves Decision-Making, and Stimulates Growth

Author: Doug Parks, Bart Rendel

Narrator: Josh Childs, John Behrens

Unabridged: 7 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 03/24/2020

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

Do you want to reignite your passion for the local church and see your congregation live out the Great Commission by growing and making disciples? If so, implementing the revolutionary Intentional Growth Planning™ operating system will benefit you, your church, and your community!Just as laptops and smart phones have an operating system, the church needs a biblically based operating system where its various programs and activities can effectively plug in to.In Intentional Churches, Doug Parks and Bart Rendel combine their 35 years of executive church leadership experience and unveil a proven and practical operational system that will help you:Clarify your unique visionFilter trends and new ideas through your missionImprove implementation abilitiesMaintain unity and alignment around what matters mostThis is a repeatable and transferable process any church can learn. Start today and be ready to go and grow through God’s power for God’s glory.

About Doug Parks

Doug Parks is co-founder and CEO of Intentional Churches.  Previously he served for seventeen years as the Executive Pastor at Canyon Ridge Christin Church in Las Vegas, NV.  He lives in Las Vegas with his wife Jennifer and two children.

About Bart Rendel

Bart Rendel is co-founder and president of Intentional Churches. He was an executive leader at Crossroads Christian Church in Lexington, Kentucky and Central Christian Church in Las Vegas for eighteen years. He lives in Las Vegas with his wife Catherine and two children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Luke

The brilliance is in the simplicity. I could go on and on about the practical and proven tools that Doug and Bart unpack. One of the things that really separates Intentional Churches is that - it moves beyond ideas and theory - having the potential to really rewire how teams operate and lead. There......more

Goodreads review by Aaron

I just got done reading the first three chapters and WOW...this book is a cup of cold water in a desert full of silver-bullet strategies for church health/growth. As a pastor in a local church, it can be easy to get overwhelmed at the vast number of resources out there for ministry application. The......more

Goodreads review by John

Every pastor in America is trying to rethink how to do churches in a COVID-19 and post-COVID-19 context. The game has changed. I confess that context probably shaped my reaction to Rendel and Parks’s book Intentional Churches. Rendel and Parks’s book is very much in line with a widely accepted metho......more

Goodreads review by Rob

The authors have really done a good job of applying 'operational management' with the old 'management by objectives' focus to a church context. Of course many in church leadership lack this foundational expertise... but then so do many in business really. Therefore this fills a need. It is cleverly......more

Goodreads review by Jim

Working with Bart and Doug for many years has provided the opportunity to see the principles and constructs in their book as they were first being tested and iterated in real-life settings amid the churches we were serving together. As a result, I came to this book expecting to know what was in it.......more

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