Membership Matters, Chuck Lawless
Membership Matters, Chuck Lawless
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Membership Matters
Insights from Effective Churches on New Member Classes and Assimilation

Author: Chuck Lawless

Narrator: Don Reed

Unabridged: 3 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 04/19/2009


Synopsis

Insights from Effective Churches on New Member Classes and AssimilationFindings from a national study to improve membership classes and to motivate current members into active ministry.How do churches move members—both old and new—into ministry? Many church staff and lay leaders know they need to start new member classes as a point of entry into their churches but don’t know how. This book is based on a national study of effective churches and shows how growing churches implement new member classes and motivate their members into ministry.Membership Matters is designed to be a guide for church leaders wanting to start or improve a membership class. It includes models for classes and examples of resources such as church covenants, class schedules, and lesson outlines. It also gives direction on motivating uninvolved members to participate in ministry. One chapter chronicles an ongoing discussion among pastors of growing churches that are effectively motivating members to do ministry.

About Chuck Lawless

Chuck Lawless is professor and senior associate dean of the Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Church Growth at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has served as a pastor for almost twenty years, and is the author of Spiritual Warfare: Biblical Truth for Victory, Discipled Warriors: Healthy Churches Winning Spiritual Warfare, Making Disciples through Mentoring, Serving in Your Church's Prayer Ministry, and Eating the Elephant. Dr. Lawless speaks extensively around the country.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Andrew on March 23, 2018

This is a research based book compiles input from healthy, growing churches. It is not necessarily random churches, but churches who agreed to participate on a more detailed level about membership, new members’ classes, raising expectations, and moving uninvolved members into ministry. Some of the d......more

Goodreads review by Ellie on January 26, 2015

Considering you're not going to pick up this book unless you're interested in the very specific subject matter, I found it to be a great read - exactly what I was looking for. The results of a national study on church membership conducted by the Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Church......more