A practical hands-on resource with loads of advice and examples for church planters, drawing on more than 25 years of church planting experience.

Three-hundred-sixty-degree leaders don’t just direct their gift of leadership south, to the people under their care. They also learn to lead north by influencing those with authority over them, and to lead east and west by impacting their peers. But most importantly, they learn how to keep the compass needle centred by leading themselves – by keeping their own lives in tune so they can provide maximum directions or others. In the most important book he has every written, Bill Hybels shares what he has learned about Christian leadership in the nearly thirty years he has pastured Willow Creek. Courageous Leadership offers leadership strategies that have been proven and refined in the trenches. Best of all, it gives you the very essence of one of today’s foremost Christian leaders – his fervent commitment to evangelism and discipleship and his zeal to inspire fellow church leaders even as he seeks to keep growing as a leader himself. “The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders,” Hybel insists. If unchurched people matter to you …if you love seeing believers serve passionately with their spiritual gifts …if God’s heartbeat for the church is your heartbeat as well …then this book is a must. Courageous Leadership will convince you to lead with all your might, all your skill, and all your faith. And it will give you the tools to do just that.

About the Author
Bill Hybels serves as senior pastor at Willow Creek community Church in South Barrington, Illinois. Willow Creek’s outreach to spiritual seekers in the Chicago area has made it one of the most attended churches in North America. Hybels has authored many books, including the award-winning Descending into Greatness, with Rob Wilkins; Fit to Be Tied and Rediscovering Church, both with his wife, Lynne; and Honest to God?

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253 pages

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Against the backdrop of advancing secularism and rampant atheism, we see churches closing on all sides, particularly in the West, where Christianity is often regarded as old hat, quaint and irrelevant. Yet, strangely, at the same time it is evident that new churches are springing up everywhere.

Why? Because God’s purposes for His church will not be thwarted.

By examining the lives of Joseph, Gideon and Nehemiah, the author inspires us afresh and shows us that the tide is turning against secularism and we are increasingly seeing God’s great plan being fulfilled to glorify His son in the earth.

About the author
Terry Virgo is based at Church of Christ the King, Brighton, UK and leads the Newfrontiers team, which is currently serving nearly 500 churches in over 30 nations. He has written several books including No Well-Worn Paths, Does the Future Have A Church? and God’s Lavish Grace. Terry and his wife Wendy have five children.

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A radical approach to church mission and social action asking ‘If mission is not the central purpose of the church, then what is?’

David Devenish believes that the church exists as a means of taking the gospel message to every people group. He believes that the church is very much at the centre of God’s purposes, and in this book presents the church, not as a static pastoral community, but as a vibrant, active body totally committed to world mission.

David investigates the importance of church planting to reach the nations, looks at Church-based mission and how to make local churches ‘missional’ in both thinking and practice.

Set within a framework of the Kingdom of God, David demonstrates what the ‘kingdom down to earth’ really implies for Church-based kingdom social action. Finally, David examines the culture and contextualisation of social action along with some of the dangers and difficulties of apostolic mission, before asking the fundamental question, ‘Who will go?’

Chapter headings
The church has a great future
When then is the importance of the church?
The importance of church planting to reach the nations
Church-based mission
Talking about the kingdom of God
The kingdom down to earth
Church-based kingdom social action
Missional churches
The purpose of the church – One new man in Christ
Culture and contextualism
The dangers and difficulties of apostolic mission
Who will go?

About the author
David is based at Woodside Church, Bedford, UK and is developing relationships with many churches in Russia and Ukraine, and encouraging church planting in unreached parts of the world. He has written several books and developed several training courses. He is married to Scilla and they have grown-up children.

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223 pages

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An autobiography by Terry Virgo, and the story of New Frontiers International . This fascinating account tells of Terry’s conversion as a teenager, his subsequent baptism in the Spirit and his call from God to serve him as a Bible teacher and church leader.

This is the personal and enlightening story of one man’s journey to follow Christ wherever he leads, even on paths few have taken before. Much more than history, this is a behind-the-scenes perspective full of gracious reflection on events and fresh insight for the future.

The fruit of Terry’s journey has been nothing less than the formation of a new stream of churches worldwide in the form of New Frontiers International, including its long run of Downs and Stoneleigh Bible Weeks which have helped hundreds of thousands to see church differently.

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John Hosier has spent almost his entire working life leading local churches, particularly in the fast-growing group of churches. He explains, “In the second half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century there has grown up what have variously been referred to as House Churches, Restoration Churches, or New Churches. There has been a passion to get back to the kind of life about which we read in the New Testament, while wanting to be absolutely relevant to the present age.”

This book lays out the key convictions of many new churches about the Body of Christ: how it functions, and what it seeks to achieve. What is apostolic ministry? The nature of baptism? The role of women? How should spiritual gifts operate? What is the Church’s mission?

Chapter headings
God’s ultimate purpose
God’s wisdom displayed to the world
Saved to belong
Given to Christ
Sent to serve
Overseers of the flock
Lavish and undeserved
Death, burial, resurrection and celebration
Baptised by the Spirit
The overflow of our hearts
To bless the church
Passion and purpose
Treasure in heaven
Ordained by God
Building blocks
Equal but different
The expression of God’s will
Making the difference
Living in harmony
The King is on the throne

About the author
John Hosier is a pastor/teacher based at Church of Christ the King, Brighton, UK. He travels internationally in his teaching role. John trained at Spurgeon’s College, London, UK.

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223 pages

The Purpose-Driven Church shifts the focus away from church building programs to emphasizing a people-building process. Warren says, ‘If you will concentrate on building people, God will build the church.’

About the author
Dr. Rick Warren is the founding pastor of Saddlback Church in Lake Forest, California, one of America’s largest congregations. Over a half-million copies of his book, The Purpose-Driven Church, have been sold in 17 languages. It was also included in 100 Christian Books that Changed the Century, which was a result of a national survey. Warren also founded Pastors.com, an online community for ministers on the Internet. Over 60,000 pastors worldwide subscribe to his free, weekly email newsletter, Rick Warren’s Ministry Toolbox.

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398 pages

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About the author
Terry Virgo is based at Church of Christ the King, Brighton, UK and leads the Newfrontiers team, which is currently serving nearly 500 churches in over 30 nations. He has written several books including No Well-Worn Paths, Does the Future Have A Church? and God’s Lavish Grace. Terry and his wife Wendy have five children.

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Grace should never lead to passivity, but to outrageous adventure.

“This is perhaps the most important book I have ever written”. Terry Virgo

Reviews
“This wonderful survey of the impact and outworking of God’s grace in the life of the believer will revitalise the most threadbare faith. ‘Few books come along that I could recommend so wholeheartedly”. Rev. Dr. R.T. Kendall

“This extraordinary and immensly readable book hands us a big bunch of ‘master keys’ designed to unlock the central truths of Paul’s practical theology. It also rescues us from major ‘grace-killers’ like morbid introspection, legalism, dead tradition, compromise, ‘tightness’, rejection and fear”. Greg Haslam, Westminster Chapel, London

“For anyone struggling to understand and enjoy God’s grace, this book will prove to be immediately and immensely helpful”. CJ Mahaney, Sovereign Grace Ministries

“Excellent through and through, thought it was just great and am highly recommending it wherever I can”. Stephen Thomas, European Team Leader for Salt & Light Ministries

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Why is it that Prayer is so high on surveys of importance, yet so low on surveys of satisfaction? Yancey explores this most foundational aspect of our relationship with God, and helps us draw close to God.

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