Religion
Decision-Makers
Frequently decision-making means trading one set of problems for a different set of problems. The basic law of traditionalism: If it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.
Dinosaur Heart Transplants
Many mainline churches make the mistake of thinking that in order to get off the plateau or reverse the decline they must become something that they are not. Often that change of identity has to do with worship.
Discontinuity and Hope
Giving examples of large-scale changes that have occurred during the past three decades, Schaller helps church leaders embrace new challenges and opportunities for ministry.
Effective Church Planning
Lyle E. Schaller offers seven basic factors for translating important new concepts from the behavioral sciences into terms that can be used for effectively solving church problems. Is guilt a means of motivation in your church?
Getting Things Done
Can just anyone learn to be an effective leader? Lyle E. Schaller-one of the nation's leading experts on chuch growth and planning-says YES! And he shows how in this practical, information-packed book.
Growing Plans
Five different strategies for increasing the size of the congregation are developed by Lyle E. Schaller - with applications to small, middle-sized, and larger churches. Schaller also includes comments on the formulation of a workable denominational strategy for church growth.
Growing Spiritual Redwoods
Growing Spiritual Redwoods is an effort to help church leaders answer the kinds of questions that confront congregations and Christians in this era of rapid and uncertain change in the church, questions such as: Are you committed to Jesus Christ, or to a particular doctrine, deno
Hey, That's Our Church!
Internationally respected church planner, Lyle E. Schaller, has visited approximately 3, 000 congregations in forty states and three nations during the past fifteen years. Based upon this wide experience, he has been able to classify them by "type." In Hey, That's Our Church!
Impact of the Future
This book probes twenty dominant trends-social, economic, political, and institutional-that will shape the world and the church of tomorrow in each chapter. Mr. Schaller sketches the salient facts and then lists particular implications for the church.
Innovations in Ministry
Asserting that the good news greatly exceeds the bad news, Innovations in Ministry celebrates what's working in American Protestantism. Lyle E.