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Church Consulting

• The Beginning of Church Consulting: Diagnostic Questions
• Question 1 – Is the Church’s Teaching Based on the Bible?
• Question 2 – Is the Church a Praying Church?
• Question 3 – Is the Church Driven by a Great Commission Focus?
• Question 4 – Is the Church Reaching Non-Believers?
• Question 5 – Is the Church Keeping New Believers Who Join?
• Question 6 – Is the Church Both Locally and Globally Minded?
• Question 7 – Does the Church Have a Strategic Plan for Future Growth?
• Question 8 – Are the Church’s Leaders Committed to the Ministry of the Church?

Church Growth/Health

• Eight Principles of New Testament Evangelism by J.D. Payne
• Reaching the Unchurched by Thom Rainer
• Leading a Church to Be Evangelistic
• Leading a Church to Be Evangelistic: Getting the Nursery Ready
• Leading Small Groups to Be Evangelistic
• Leading a Church to Be Evangelistic: Connecting with Non-Believers
• Leading a Church to Be Evangelistic: Praying Evangelistically
• New Year’s Commitments for Church Growth Pastors and Staff
• Christian Fellowship: A Weapon against the Enemy
• Membership Matters
• Members into Ministry
• Praying Churches = Powerful Churches
• Praying Pastors—A Non-negotiable to Effective Church Growth
• Spiritual Warfare and Church Growth
• Celebrating Christmas at Church

Church Planting

• Ecclesiology: The Most Critical Issue in Church Planting Today by J. D. Payne
• The Great Commission and Church Planting by J. D. Payne
• The Other Wing of the Airplane by J. D. Payne

Missions

• Intercultural Communication by David Sills
• Missions at Risk by R. Albert Mohler, Jr.
• The World at North America’s Doorstep by David Sills