Move Your Church to Action

In this helpful book, Kent R. Hunter provides clear, practical guidance not only on how to diagnose the difficulties a church is experiencing, but also on how to implement simple, direct strategies for change. He outlines the basic questions a church must ask itself if it is to identify its problems and opportunities for growth, and--most importantly--offers direct suggestions on how a congregation's leaders can move and motivate its members to hear and follow the call to a deeper experience of mission and discipleship. Move Your Church to Action will help readers understand what kinds of problems hold churches back from becoming alive with purpose and sense of mission, and they will learn how to implement simple, direct strategies for change.

Kent R. Hunter is President of the Church Growth Center, a church interventionist service based in Corunna, Indiana.

Acknowledgments	p. 9
Preface	p. 11
Introduction	p. 15
The Action Church	p. 19
The New Testament Church	p. 22
The Church of the Middle Ages	p. 25
The Reformation Church	p. 25
The "Actionary" Church	p. 26
Time for a Checkup	p. 31
Mission or Maintenance?	p. 33
Sensitive or Self-Centered?	p. 40
Risk or Rut?	p. 43
Progressive or Petrified?	p. 47
Planned or Pasteurized?	p. 50
Organized or Ossified?	p. 53
What Business Are You In?	p. 59
The Case of the U.S. Railroads	p. 63
Sears, Roebuck and Company	p. 64
Your Business Shapes Your Action	p. 68
Roadblock People	p. 71
Identity Crisis in the Church	p. 75
Institution or Organism?	p. 77
Institutional or Organismic?	p. 80
The Church Alive	p. 81
The "Doctrine" of Elections	p. 86
Professional Church Workers	p. 88
Leadership	p. 91
Caught, Not Taught	p. 92
Leadership in the Home	p. 95
Motivating Leadership	p. 96
Ten Characteristics of Quality Leadership	p. 99
Two Kinds of Leadership	p. 104
The Pastor's Place in Leadership	p. 107
Pastoral Training	p. 109
The Great Mix-Up	p. 113
Two Abuses of Pastoral Leadership	p. 117
Dynamic Leadership	p. 118
Long-Term Pastorates	p. 122
Multiple Staff	p. 123
Leadership Is Key	p. 126
Ten Common Bottlenecks in the Church (and How to Deal with Them)	p. 129
Pastor	p. 129
People	p. 131
Money	p. 132
Lifeless Worship	p. 135
Unclear Purpose	p. 137
Communication Inside	p. 138
Communication Outside	p. 141
Negativism	p. 143
Unwillingness to Change	p. 144
Cultural Baggage	p. 145
Honoring Your Context	p. 149
What Are the Unchurched Thinking?	p. 153
Openness: Windows of Opportunity	p. 155
God's Rainbow of People Groups	p. 157
The Baskin-Robbins Church	p. 161
What About Unity?	p. 165
Classical One-Choice Thinking	p. 167
Telling Your Church's Story	p. 169
Different Strokes for Different Folks	p. 173
The World Outreach Center	p. 175
Horizontal Horizons with Vertical Values	p. 175
Laser Christianity	p. 177
A Sending Church	p. 179
Epilogue: Counting the Cost	p. 181
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