Deep and Wide: Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend - Softcover

Stanley, Andy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0310526531 ISBN 13: 9780310526537

Verlag: Zondervan, 2016

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Author and pastor Andy Stanley draws from Scripture and over 25 years of pastoral experience to communicate to church leaders how they can create a church where believers can have a growing faith in Jesus and at the same time unbelievers can make a vital and lasting connection---a ministry that is both deep and wide.

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Communicator, author, and pastor Andy Stanley founded Atlanta-based North Point Ministries (NPM) in 1995. Today, NPM consists of eight churches in the Atlanta area and a network of 180 churches around the globe that collectively serve over 200,000 people weekly. As host of Your Move with Andy Stanley, which delivers over 10.5 million messages each month through television, digital platforms, and podcasts, and author of more than 20 books, including Irresistible; Better Decisions, Fewer Regrets; and Deep & Wide, Andy is considered one of the most influential pastors in America.

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Deep & Wide

Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend

By Andy Stanley

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Copyright © 2016 Andy Stanley
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-0-310-52653-7

Contents

Acknowledgments, 9, 
Introduction, 11, 
Section One: My Story, 
Starting Up and Starting Over, 
1. Not All That Deep, 21, 
2. Family Matters, 35, 
Section Two: Our Story, 
Walking Toward the Messes, 
3. Words Matter, 57, 
4. Just As I Ain't, 69, 
5. Defying Gravity, 85, 
Section Three: Going Deep, 
Rethinking Spiritual Formation, 
6. My Big Discovery, 103, 
7. Playing My Part, 111, 
8. From Out of Nowhere, 131, 
Section Four: Going Wide, 
Why They Love to Attend, 
9. Creating Irresistible Environments, 157, 
10. Rules of Engagement, 193, 
11. Double-Barrel Preaching, 227, 
Section Five: Becoming Deep and Wide, 
Transitioning a Local Church, 
12. Coming to Blows with the Status Quo, 265, 
13. Mission and Model, 277, 
14. Led to Lead, 293, 
Conclusion: What If?, 307, 
Appendices, 
Appendix A: North Point Survey Cards and Results Sample, 319, 
Appendix B: Starting Point Ministry Description, 327, 
Appendix C: Measurable Ministry Wins, 331, 
Appendix D: North Point's Mission, Strategy, and Beliefs, 337, 
Appendix E: North Point Community Church Charter Members, 339, 
Appendix F: The North Point Covenant: An Introduction and Explanation, 347, 
Q & A with Andy Stanley, 357, 
Team Discussion Guide, 377, 
Notes, 393, 

CHAPTER 1

Not All That Deep

My earliest memory of church was my dad baptizing me when I was six. I still remember what he said: "A pastor has no greater privilege than to baptize his own children."

He was right.

I've baptized all three of mine.

As a preacher's kid, there was never a time in my life that I was not involved in church. And unlike a lot of PKs, I don't remember ever being forced to go. I liked it. Church was always the center of my social life. It's where I made lifelong friends, several of whom I'm still connected with today.

My parents began their ministry together in 1957 in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. After graduating from seminary, my dad accepted a call to pastor Fruitland Baptist Church. In addition to pastoring the church, he was invited to teach at the Fruitland Baptist Bible Institute, located directly across the parking lot from the church. FBBI was established in 1946 to assist local pastors who lacked the opportunity or means for theological training. So there he was, all of twenty-four years old, teaching men almost twice his age who had been pastoring for years but who lacked formal training. And he loved it.

Fortunately for me, there was no hospital in Fruitland. Equally fortunate was the fact that my mom did not want to deliver me at home. So technically I'm not from Fruitland. I was born right around the corner in Hendersonville.

From Fruitland we moved to Fairborn, Ohio, where my sister was born. Then my dad accepted a call to First Baptist Church of Miami, Florida. We lived in Miami seven years before transitioning to First Baptist Church of Bartow, forty miles east of Tampa, Florida. We were there only fifteen months when a friend called and asked my dad to pray about coming to First Baptist Church of Atlanta as the senior associate pastor. He wasn't the least bit interested. We loved Bartow. But he assured Felix that he would pray about it, hoping Felix wouldn't call back. But he did. And he kept calling. And apparently so did God.

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• Verlag: Zondervan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0310526531
• ISBN 13: 9780310526537
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 402
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