Making a Good Church Great: Becoming a Community God Calls Home

Description

Cost: $20
Author: Steve Sjogren
Format: HC, 192 pages
Released: Feb 2010

No Two Churches Are Alike (But They All Can Be Great)

Pastor Steve Sjogren launched the servant-evangelism movement – a movement that fueled the growth of his church in Cincinnati from a handful of people to 6,000 in 15 years. But along the way, Steve began to reevaluate the common assumption that a bigger church is necessarily a better church.

In Making a Good Church Great, Steve shares what he has observed in more than 30 years as a church planter and coach: that a church’s greatness has less to do with thousands in weekly attendance, the size of the sanctuary or the number of books the pastor has published. Instead, greatness is an ongoing process that is moved by the presence of God among His people.

This book is an invitation to your community of faith to uncover its true and authentic greatness. There are 13 characteristics of a great church, including upward, outward, safe, fun, inclusive and generous, and Steve offers practical steps for your church, in its one-of-a-kind way, to foster each of these qualities. Instead of making your church more like someone else’s, let the presence of God make your church the greatest church it can be!