
Breaking the Huddle
How Your Community Can Grow Its Witness
- 216 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
- 15th Annual Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year - Evangelism
Most Christians are stuck in the huddle.Even though we believe in outreach, most communities tend to focus on our own needs. That turns us into insular groups without many relationships with outsiders. So evangelism is occasional and conversions are rare. How do we change?In their groundbreaking book I Once Was Lost, Don Everts and Doug Schaupp identified five thresholds that individuals cross when they shift from being skeptics to followers. Now they and Val Gordon show how huddled communities can become witnessing communities and then conversion communities, where evangelistic growth becomes the new normal. The authors have studied the growth of congregations, what enhances and limits them, and have gathered best practices for transformation. Our churches and fellowships can become places where evangelism is not done by a just few people, but where the whole community itself becomes a winsome, thriving witness to those around it.Break out of the huddle. Find out how.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Introduction: A Case for Hope
- Part One: Three Types of Communities
- Part Two: Two Macrostrategies for Breaking the Huddle
- Part Three: Two Macrostrategies for Becoming a Conversion Community
- Part Four: Leadership Lessons
- Conclusion: Great Joy in the Work
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Supplemental Materials
- Praise for Breaking the Huddle
- About the Author
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- Copyright