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101 Great Ideas for Growing Healthy Churches
A MODEM Guide
This book is available to read until 23rd December, 2025
- 272 pages
- English
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- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 23 Dec |Learn more
About this book
A variety of experienced church leaders, missioners and other practitioners share simple and effective ideas for enhancing the life, worship and witness of every local church. With humour, realism, real-life stories and top-tips for dealing with challenging situations, here is a welcome aid for all clergy and lay church leaders.
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Table of contents
- title page
- Copyright information
- Contents
- The Editorial Team
- A word from the Chair of MODEM on 101 Great Ideas for Growing Healthy Churches
- Introduction to 101 Great Ideas for Growing Healthy Churches
- A Spiritual Reflection on 101 Great Ideas for Growing Healthy Churches
- A Business Perspective on 101 Great Ideas for Growing Healthy Churches
- Great Idea 1: Agree a Vision
- Great Idea 2: Ask the Lord his Business
- Great Idea 3: Aspire to be Great
- Great Idea 4: Avoid Judging other People
- Great Idea 5: Be a Listening Church
- Great Idea 6: Be Able to Say Sorry
- Great Idea 7: Be About Your Father’s Business – Part 1
- Great Idea 8: Be About Your Father’s Business – Part 2
- Great Idea 9: Be an Agent for Change
- Great Idea 10: Be Discontented!
- Great Idea 11: Be Friendly with Science and Medicine
- Great Idea 12: Be Inclusive, not Divisive
- Great Idea 13: Be ‘In-house’ and ‘Out-house’!
- Great Idea 14: Be in the Business of Making Disciples
- Great Idea 15: Believe that You too can Change the Church
- Great Idea 16: Be the Centre of Community not a Satellite
- Great Idea 17: Be the Church of God
- Great Idea 18: Be Mindful of Management
- Great Idea 19: Be Personally Effective
- Great Idea 20: Be Witnesses in the Workplace
- Great Idea 21: Bring God into Everyday Life
- Great Idea 22: Care for the Co-habiting
- Great Idea 23: Change the Way we Make Decisions
- Great Idea 24: Come for Tea, Come for Tea, my People!
- Great Idea 25: Count the Cost
- Great Idea 26: Create a Community Arts Project
- Great Idea 27: Create a Holiday Club
- Great Idea 28: Delegate with Confidence
- Great Idea 29: Delight in Leading Well
- Great Idea 30: Develop and Grow Together
- Great Idea 31: Develop the Talents of Others
- Great Idea 32: Distil Some Passion Stew!
- Great Idea 33: Do it for Them not for Yourself
- Great Idea 34: Do the Things that Matter
- Great Idea 35: Don’t be Suspicious of Economics
- Great Idea 36: Don’t Recruit – Evangelize!
- Great Idea 37: Don’t Throw out the Baby with the Baptism Water
- Great Idea 38: Dream Dreams
- Great Idea 39: Dreams in Metaphors and Stories for Organizational Change
- Great Idea 40: Embrace those on the Final Journey
- Great Idea 41: Embrace Change
- Great Idea 42: Embrace Failure
- Great Idea 43: Embrace the Social Media
- Great Idea 44: Enable Effective Partnering
- Great Idea 45: Engage in Radical Surgery
- Great Idea 46: Engage Openly with Disagreement
- Great Idea 47: Engage in the Power of Advertising
- Great Idea 48: Establish a Lay-led Church Plant
- Great Idea 49: Expand the Community
- Great Idea 50: Expect the Unexpected
- Great Idea 51: Explore the Skills You Need
- Great Idea 52: Fill Your Leadership Space
- Great Idea 53: Form a Messy Church
- Great Idea 54: Get Social with the Media
- Great Idea 55: God has Provided, now Manage it
- Great Idea 56: Have a Biblical Vision
- Great Idea 57: Have a Metric for Rural Church Management
- Great Idea 58: Have an Ethical Propaganda
- Great Idea 59: Hold Mid-week Meetings
- Great Idea 60: Face Up to It – It’s a Business
- Great Idea 61: Incorporate the Green
- Great Idea 62: Keep Critical Statistics
- Great Idea 63: Know What Faith Is
- Great Idea 64: Know What’s Important
- Great Idea 65: Learn How to Listen
- Great Idea 66: Learn to Live the Life of Love
- Great Idea 67: Let My People Serve!
- Great Idea 68: Listen Twice Speak Once
- Great Idea 69: Live in and of the Faith
- Great Idea 70: Look Again and Check it
- Great Idea 71: Maintain Your Spiritual Health
- Great Idea 72: Make the Most of Your Buildings
- Great Idea 73: Make Use of Business Consultants
- Great Idea 74: Make Your Church a World Church
- Great Idea 75: Make Yourself into an Ordained Entrepreneur
- Great Idea 76: Manage Your Meetings
- Great Idea 77: Manage Yourself
- Great Idea 78: Mind Your Own Business!
- Great Idea 79: Move on into New Ways of Being and Doing
- Great Idea 80: Move Your Vision from Me to We
- Great Idea 81: Offer Quality Worship
- Great Idea 82: Plan Ahead and in Detail
- Great Idea 83: Plan Good Public Relations
- Great Idea 84: Prepare Your Congregational Vision
- Great Idea 85: Process and Structure
- Great Idea 86: Reach Out
- Great Idea 87: Reflect, Receive and Report
- Great Idea 88: Samaritans – A Structure for Support
- Great Idea 89: See the World as Christ sees the World
- Great Idea 90: Serve by Leading – Lead by Serving
- Great Idea 91: Strive for Healthy Growth and Unity
- Great Idea 92: Take ‘An Hour Out’
- Great Idea 93: Teach the Whole Counsel of God
- Great Idea 94: The Children Shall Lead if we Let Them
- Great Idea 95: Time Your Work and Plan for Neglect
- Great Idea 96: Vary Your Worship Style
- Great Idea 97: What are You Selling?
- Great Idea 98: Work Out Where You are Going
- Great Idea 99: Work to Build the House of Prayer for All Nations
- Great Idea 100: Work with the Workers
- Great Idea 101: Worship, Lead and Manage
- About the Contributors
- About MODEM