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Change is the beginning of revolution. Change is the start of transformation. Without change, the end draws near. That's a fact of life. Businesses die everyday, simply because they won't change. We see it everywhere. And churches lie empty and dormant across this land for the very same reason. Enough change takes place over time that churches that were once full and vibrant and attractive now sit empty and cold. Or they remain open with a declining number of people, focused on God but irrelevant to man.
The purpose of this book is to challenge us and to show us how to aggressively change the things in our own church culture that will then allow us to influence and impact our surrounding communities. We want to be followers of Christ, bringing radical transformation to a world that's desperately lost. If the entire structure and programming of the church is focused on mobilizing disciples to go and bring their friends to Christ, then those friends will be coming to Christ, coming to church, growing into disciples and then going after their friends! This Biblical mindset needs to drive everything! Everything must change that's not moving us toward God's actual will for our churches.
If the entire structure and programming of the church has deteriorated into something that simply maintains itself, like an old folk's home, we will die! New life won't come with great new ideas, new programs or new structures. New life will rise out of a fresh awakening to an old, but ageless truth- go and make disciples who go! Get ready for thirteen chapters filled with loads of details about what church should really look like. Every chapter builds toward the final product- turning self-serving people into multiplying disciples, filled with the Spirit and focused on the Mission!
- Sales Rank: #2831695 in Books
- Published on: 2013-05-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.02" h x .99" w x 5.98" l, 1.43 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 444 pages
Review
"use this book as a way to move your ministry forward for greater effectiveness in fulfilling the Great Commission."
Dr. Dann Spader
President of GYI and Founder of Sonlife
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"this book is guaranteed to stir up questions and stimulate a fresh look at your church."
Gary Benedict
President- C & MA, United States
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"written with piercing clarity and profound realism. It will carefully but unapologetically push into the places we feel most vulnerable and insecure but thankfully does not leave us hanging. This is a must read."
Rev. David Hearn
President- C & MA, Canada
"It will give you new eyes on what your church is doing and how you can do it much more effectively."
Rev. John Soper
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"at times provocative, always practical and unapologetically passionate for the church."
David C Freeman
Vice President, Strategic Interface- C & MA, Canada
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"full of practical "nuts and bolts" for a healthy congregation�that Dale has learned from decades of effective ministry in the trenches."
Dr. Rick Sessoms
President, Freedom to Lead International
"I strongly recommend this resource to Pastors and leaders. It is part of the solution to help set us free"
Dr. Ron Walborn
Dean of Alliance Theological Seminary and Nyack College
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-when you are done working through "Change It Up!," you will never look at your church the same again."
Dr. Rich Brown
Vice President for Student Development- Simpson University
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"a comprehensive toolbox filled with about every tool imaginable for leaders in all the ministries of the local church."
Bill Malick
National Director for Church Multiplication for the C. & M.A.
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From the Author
A companion tool "The Change It Up Assessment" can be found at ChangeItUp.org
About the Author
Dale Edwardson is the National Church Health Director for the Christian and Missionary Alliance.� He and his wife, Gwen, have also served in church planting, pastoring, and regional church leadership for over thirty-five years. Pastoring a church that grew from 100 to 2000 over 24 years, Dale has personally experienced the many stages and struggles of church growth and church health. Training, coaching, consulting and speaking to thousands of pastors and church leaders, Dale's greatest desire is to help reshape and empower today's church. Dale and Gwen have three great sons and daughter-in-laws and seven amazing grandchildren. They live in Northern California.
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very inspirational and practical - helpful to pastors starting ministry or have been in ministry a long time. Thanks Dale.
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Self-Published For a Reason
By Dylan Valliere
Positively, let me say that Edwardson's heart for effective ministry, reaching lost people with the gospel of Jesus Christ, and God-honoring churches is evident. The author is clearly passionate about doing church well and not simply going through the motions or accepting mediocrity.
The book's main point is that we must revisit everything we do with fresh eyes, consider how it attracts or repels visitors and new comers, and then do anything and everything in our power to remove unnecessary barriers to such folks giving the real content of the church a fair shake. If something negotiable (externals, formats contra Christian doctrine and teaching) is repellant to non-Christians in your context, fix, tweak, ditch, or replace that negotiable.
No doubt, an open-minded reader can and will benefit from this book, the questions it raises, and the examples it provides. Dale Edwardson has something to say, something pastors would do well to hear and consider carefully.
Sadly, the book violates its own thesis: while calling readers to attend very carefully to external issues so that the message can get a fair hearing, the book spends little to no effort at being clear, concise, organized, and readable. I frequently had the sense that the author was just talking at the computer and hoping that with many words, the things he wanted to say would somehow get out and across. Each time I picked up the book to read the next portion, I'd think to myself, "surely it's not as bad as you remember. Maybe this portion will be better." It never was. Each time was an exercise in self-control to force my way through the material. The writing is so painfully in need of multiple rounds of revision and editing that it should never have gone to press. Without exaggeration, I can say that I have never picked up a book that was this poorly written.
The formatting was very distracting: every paragraph began with a topic sentence (which often, but not always gave a reasonable sense of what followed) and was formatted in bold text. Exclamations points were excessively used; it wasn't unusual to find 10, 12, or 15 exclamation points per page! Therefore, every page was full of bold text and exclamatory punctuation. The tone felt almost manic at points.
Outlines were used at times but in such a way as to create confusion rather than clarity. Indented subsections contained content that was formatted all the way to the margin; when you reached a new section, suddenly you were indented once more and had to go back to figure out what the current section was. Even something as simple as using the same font throughout is not always the case. There are occasional paragraphs printed in an entirely different font, falsely leading the reader to suspect a different type of content such as an inset quote or illustration.
The repetitiveness of the book was infuriating. Topics were raised, beaten to death, and explicitly concluded only to be revisited afresh literally a couple paragraphs later. The final page count is 444. This book should have been no longer than 100 to 150 pages. Properly edited, it probably would have fit in that range. Two hundred pages would be a generous outlying limit.
If you read the book's endorsements carefully, you'll notice two things: 1) most of the quotes are rather vague supportive statements, 2) they nearly all come from the author's denominational colleagues. There is a reason for both of these things: the book is not a finished product ready for public consumption.
Conclusion: measuring the book by its own message, the book flunks. A good message communicated poorly doesn't cut it. It's like reading a book on humility that reeks of pride, book on love that exudes self-interest, or a book on memorable communication that leaves no impression whatsoever. I hope that Dale Edwardson will one day fix the egregious errors of this book and get it properly produced because in a new format, it could really benefit God's Kingdom.
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