Some highlights from John Bowen’s new book, Growing up Christian: Why Young People Stay in Church, Leave Church and (Sometimes) Come Back to Church

You have seen them and so have I: bright, enthusiastic young people leading worship, heading out on short term mission trips, collecting food for the food bank. And we think, [...]

Australian Stuart P. Robinson, has written the best workbook on church planting that I have read.
“Starting Mission-Shaped Churches” (St. Paul’s Chatswood, 2007), is an extremely practical tool written by someone who is both an experienced Anglican church planter and bishop-elect of Canberra! Its large format makes it easy to handle and inviting to use. It [...]

Your Church Can Thrive
Percy helps congregations answer tough, critical, and strategic questions about their ministry and mission. How do we serve the member in the pew, the casual visitor, family and friends of the congregants, and the neighbourhood beyond? These are where connections that build healthy congregations are make and nurtured.
This book can be purchased [...]

Good News People

What is evangelism? Why is it important? This book shows how congregations and individuals can join in this essential and joyful ministry. A study guide helps readers to reflect on their own experience and share effectively in the work of evangelism.

This book can be purchased at your local Christian bookseller or online at [...]

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Many people love the Narnia stories. However, not all readers know the deep spirituality that underlies them. In some ways, the stories mirror Lewis’ own wrestling with his spiritual longings, and seek to help others on the same journey. He wants us to feel, as he himself came to feel, that what we long [...]

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This book serves as a primer in evangelism for Christians who think that evangelism is done only by weird people, not by ‘normal’ people like them. The book is in two halves:

The first half traces [...]

Mission-Shaped Church
This church report marked a new transition: Mission Shaped Church (2004), written by a group headed by Bishop Graham Cray. This not only described some of the “fresh expressions of church” which were springing up all over the country, but talked about the theology of such things, and gave encouragement to those who wanted to [...]