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BECOMING A WELCOMING CHURCH
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Thom S. Rainer Most church members don’t see their churches clearly. In almost all of Thom S. Rainer’s consultations, church members perceive their church to be friendly. But as he surveyed guests, he found that the guests typically saw church members as unfriendly. The perception chasm existed because the members were indeed friendly...to one another. Hardcover 005796138 $12.99
Thom S. Rainer In language that is warm, pithy, and, of course, welcoming, bestselling author Thom S. Rainer (I Am a Church Member, Autopsy of a Deceased Church) created a tool for churches to become more hospitable. Intended to be given away to church visitors, Rainer facilitates the follow-up conversation that every pastor would have, if they had the opportunity. By giving away the book to visitors, they are incentivized, in a nonintrusive manner, to continue to reflect on the decision to visit their church. Hardcover 005799680 $12.99
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Based on conversations with thousands of pastors, combined with on-the-ground research from more than 50,000 churches, best-selling author Thom S. Rainer shares an eight-stage roadmap to leading change in your church. Not by changing doctrine. Not by changing biblical foundations. But by changing methodologies and approaches for reaching a rapidly changing culture.
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This book is perfect for the pastor, church staff person, elder, deacon, or other key lay leader in your church. This is the book that will equip you to celebrate and lead change no matter the cost.
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No one wants to see a church die. And yet, far too many churches are dying. For more than twenty-five years, Thom S. Rainer has helped churches grow, reverse the trends of decline, and has autopsied those that have died. From this experience, he has discovered twelve consistent themes among those churches that have died. Yet, it’s not gloom and doom because from those twelve themes, lessons on how to keep your church alive have emerged. Whether your church is vibrant or dying, whether you are a pastor or a church member, Autopsy of a Deceased Church will walk you through the radical paths necessary to keep your church alive to the glory of God and advancement of Christ’s Kingdom!
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WRITTEN FOR THE CHURCH MEMBER I AM A CHURCH MEMBER
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Thom S. Rainer Could you be the answer to the problems you see?
Best-selling author and ministry leader, Thom S. Rainer, posted a 500-word declaration about church membership on his blog that started a conversation about the attitudes and responsibilities of church members— rather than the functional and theological issues—that previous new member primers all but ignored.
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Thoughtfully expanded to book form, I Am a Church Member remedies the outbreak of inactive or barely committed church members, addressing what is expected of those who join a body of believers. When a person’s attitude is consistently biblical and healthy, matters of giving, serving, and so forth fall into place more naturally. Hardcover 005538488 $12.99
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Every day we are faced with the needs of those around us. Emotional. Physical. Spiritual. What are we to do about it? Are these problems for our pastors to address or is there a way for the church member to make an impact that will last?
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Best-selling author Thom S. Rainer answers these questions by offering nine simple traits that all church members can incorporate into your life no matter your background, stage of life, or sense of capability. This is the perfect follow-up book for a church to go through after I Am a Church Member. Hardcover 005742345 $12.99
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The Gospel for Life is a series of short, accessible books on a range of urgent topics facing the church, intended for the person of the pew. Editors Russell Moore and Andrew T. Walker of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) assemble leading voices to frame the issues with a gospel-centered perspective. The Gospel for Life series gives every believer a biblically-saturated understanding of the most urgent issues facing our culture today, because the gospel is for all of life.
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RUSSELL MOORE is president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. The Wall Street Journal called him “vigorous, cheerful, and fiercely articulate.” He is the author of several books, including the Christianity Today 2016 Book of the Year, Onward: Engaging Culture Without Losing the Gospel.
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ANDREW T. WALKER serves as director of Policy Studies at the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. He and his wife Christian live in Franklin, Tennessee with their two daughters.
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Religious Liberty • Same Sex Marriage • Adoption • Racial Reconciliation Marriage • Abortion • Pornography • Parenting • Work
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UNDERSTANDING CHURCH DISCIPLINE
UNDERSTANDING CHURCH LEADERSHIP
UNDERSTANDING BAPTISM
Once an ordinary part of church life, churches gradually stopped practicing church discipline in the 20th century. But Jesus commands it. Paul practiced it. And churches benefit from it. Why practice church discipline? It shows love for the individual caught in sin, love for the whole church, love for non-Christian neighbors, and love for the glory of Christ.
God cares about His glory, and He means to display His glory through the church. For this very end, God has established elders and deacons, members, and congregational authority. This primer on church structure connects the different offices of the church to one another and to the glory of God.
What’s the big deal about baptism? Jesus commands His disciples to be baptized, and it’s a glorious picture of a person’s union with Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection. Still, many Christians feel unclear about the topic, having more questions than answers. Paperback 005768026 $7.99
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UNDERSTANDING THE CONGREGATION’S AUTHORITY
UNDERSTANDING THE GREAT COMMISSION
Congregational authority is less about the meetings and more about the mission. Congregationalism has a bad rap for well-known reasons: inefficient meetings, upstart members, browbeaten ministers. But biblical congregationalism isn’t so much about the meetings. It’s about empowering the whole church to promote and protect the gospel. Pastors lead and equip. Members get to work strengthening one another and pursuing Christ’s mission in the world.
God means to fulfill the Great Commission through local churches. How did the apostles and the churches of the New Testament obey the Great Commission? By gathering Christians together in churches. The church is God’s plan for evangelism, discipleship, and the Great Commission. This connection between the Great Commission and the church dramatically impacts how both leaders and members should think about their work of making disciples. We do it together.
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UNDERSTANDING THE LORD’S SUPPER Why did Jesus give the church a meal to eat together? The Lord’s Supper isn’t just something churches do together, it’s something that binds us together, making many into one. This accessible work biblically explains what the Lord’s Supper is, how it relates to a local church’s life together, who should celebrate the Lord’s Supper, and how we should approach it. Paperback 005768108 $7.99
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LETTERS TO AN AMERICAN CHRISTIAN Bruce Riley Ashford Author, professor (Southeastern Seminary), and Fox op-ed columnist Bruce Riley Ashford writers a series of letters to a young college student who is struggling to make sense of how to be a Christian amid contemporary American politics.
LIVING FIT
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Ronnie Floyd Living Fit, by pastor and immediate past president of the SBC Ronnie Floyd, was written to equip you for a healthy life—spiritually, physically, relationally, financially, and emotionally.
Bill Henard ReClaimed Church provides all the practical insights and instructions needed to help a church return to growth. Paperback 005800827 $16.99
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Brent Crowe Moments ’til Midnight imaginatively retells the final twelve hours of Paul’s life, from the perspective of the apostle himself. Along the way, readers will be encouraged to live with purpose, to redeem the time, and to embrace the awesome reality that they too are on a sacred journey.
Christian George Spurgeon’s top sermons on the Love of Christ, modernized for today’s readers.
Art Rainer In The Money Challenge, Art Rainer takes you on a journey to financial health. But it is not simply for the sake of financial health. The Money Challenge was written to help experience God’s design for you and your finances.
Art Rainer In The Marriage Challenge: A Finance Guide for Married Couples, Art Rainer takes you on a journey to a financially healthy marriage. Get started on the right foot, or get back on the right track, by accepting the challenge and realizing God’s design for money and marriage.
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3 ROLES FOR GUIDING GROUPS David Francis and Ken Braddy The person responsible for guiding a Bible study in your church assumes three roles: teacher, shepherd, and leader. Use this resource to help them grow in all three roles by better understanding what it means to be the teacher who “stands before,” the shepherd who “sits among,” and the leader who is ultimately responsible for carrying out the goals and purposes of the group. (4 sessions) Booklet 005643512 $2.00
TRANSFORMATIONAL GROUPS Ed Stetzer and Eric Geiger In Transformational Groups, Ed Stetzer and Eric Geiger provide a map to transformational success for your church’s groups ministry. Using data from the largest survey of pastors and laypersons ever done on the condition of groups in the church, they define a simple process to lead your groups from where they are to where God wants them to be. Paperback 005617192 $14.99
SEARCH William Vanderbloemen Finding your church’s pastor is as serious as an organ transplant. You need a pastor that matches your church’s vision, culture, and most importantly, your church’s heart. While there is no simple, one-size-fits-all solution to the puzzle of planning for a seamless pastor search, this handbook was created to provide pastor search committees, church leaders, and pastors a guide to asking the right questions in order to plan for the overwhelming pastor search process. Paperback 005773750 $12.99
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THE STORM-TOSSED FAMILY Russell Moore Why do our families have so much power over us? In The Cross-Shaped Family, best-selling author Russell Moore (Onward, Christianity Today’s 2016 “Beautiful Orthodoxy Book of the Year Award Winner”) teaches readers whether you are married or single, whether you are childless or herding a quiverfull of offspring, you are part of a family. Family is difficult because family—every family—is an echo of the gospel. Family can be the source of some of the most transcendent human joy, and family can leave us crumpled up on the side of the road. Family can make us who we are, and family can break our hearts. Why would this social arrangement have that much power, for good or for ill, over us? Jacketed Hardcover 005801985 $22.99
ONWARD Russell Moore CHRISTIANITY TODAY 2016 BOOK OF THE YEAR As the culture changes all around us, it is no longer possible to pretend that we are a moral majority. That may be bad news for America, but it can be good news for the church. What’s needed now, in shifting times, is neither a doubling-down on the status quo nor a pullback into isolation. Instead, we need a church that speaks to social and political issues with a bigger vision in mind: that of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Jacketed Hardcover 005723021 $24.99
ONWARD BIBLE STUDY Learn to reclaim the distinctiveness of the Christian faith that sets it apart from the surrounding culture. The Onward Leader Kit includes a Bible Study Book, two DVDs with promotional video, six 13- to 15-minute teaching sessions led by author Russell Moore, and the trade book. (6 sessions) Bible Study Book 005727825 $12.99 Leader Kit 005727826 $89.99
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DESIGNED TO LEAD Eric Geiger and Kevin Peck Many churches do not develop leaders intentionally and consistently. When leaders emerge from some churches, it is often by accident. From the first recordings of history God has made it clear that He has designed creation to be led by His covenant people. In Designed to Lead, Eric Geiger (author of best-selling Simple Church and Creature of the Word) and Kevin Peck argue that churches that consistently produce leaders have a strong “conviction” to develop leaders, a healthy “culture” for leadership development, and helpful “constructs” to systematically and intentionally build leaders. All three are essential for leaders to be formed through the ministry of a local church. Jacketed Hardcover 005777735 $22.99
HOW TO RUIN YOUR LIFE Eric Geiger To bring strong and tall buildings to the ground, demolition experts strategically place tiny explosives throughout the structure of a building so that the building will topple on itself. Instead of destroying the building from the outside, they destroy it from within. In the same way many great men and women have imploded, and others are well on their way. Author of best-selling books Simple Church and Creature of the Word, Eric Geiger offers a sobering reminder that many great and godly people have imploded, and none of us are above the risk. Looking at the story of David’s infamous implosion, readers will learn how to ruin our lives (so we won’t), and also how to find hope if we do—as all of us need His grace. Paperback 005799682 $16.99
CREATURE OF THE WORD Matt Chandler, Josh Patterson, and Eric Geiger Respected pastor Matt Chandler launches a compelling discussion about fostering churches that view the gospel as not one piece but the very basis of their existence, allowing that truth to inform their theology, culture, and practice. Paperback 005514775 $14.99
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THIS IS OUR TIME Trevin Wax In This is Our Time, Trevin Wax provides snapshots of 21st-century American life in order to help Christians understand the times. By analyzing our common beliefs and practices (smartphone habits, entertainment intake, our view of shopping, sex, marriage, politics, and life’s purpose), Trevin helps us see through the myths of society to the hope of the gospel. As faithful witnesses to Christ, Trevin writes, we must identify the longing behind society’s most cherished myths (what is good, true, beautiful), expose the lie at the heart of these myths (what is false and damaging), and show how the gospel tells a better story—one that exposes the lie but satisfies the deeper longing. Paperback 005789993 $16.99
DETOURS Tony Evans Tony Evans knows a thing or two about detours. One of the things he knows for certain is that God works through detours to bring about His blessing—to deliver you to the place He has created just for you. Using examples from the life of Joseph, Tony helps readers answer the following questions in his book Detours: The Unpredictable Path to Your Destiny: • How do you find the destiny God has designed for your life? • How can you make the most of the detours God has planned for you? • Is there a way to shorten a detour and speed up your progression in life? • What is the purpose of a detour? Jacketed Hardcover 005728692 $19.99
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OBEDIENCE Advancing the Gospel When Facing Challenge and Persecution
Nik Ripken
THE INSANITY OF GOD
THE INSANITY OF OBEDIENCE
Nik Ripken The Insanity of God is the personal and lifelong journey of an ordinary couple from rural Kentucky who thought they were going on just your ordinary missionary pilgrimage, but discovered it would be anything but. After spending over six hard years doing relief work in Somalia, and experiencing life where it looked like God had turned away completely and He was clueless about the tragedies of life, the couple had a crisis of faith and left Africa asking God, “Does the gospel work anywhere when it is really a hard place?”
Nik Ripken In light of the words of Jesus, how can modern day believers rest comfortably in the status quo? How can we embrace casual faith in light of the radical commands of Jesus which are anything but casual? Ripken brings decades of ministry experience in some of the most persecuted areas of the world to bear on our understanding of faith in Jesus. The Insanity of Obedience is a call to roll up your sleeves…and to follow and partner with Jesus in the toughest places on this planet.
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Dhati Lewis Among Wolves seeks to help us move to obedience to the call of Christ to labor among wolves. You will walk through eight significant movements in the Book of Matthew, beginning with Jesus establishing His presence with us, to Him mobilizing an army to go and make disciples of all nations.
Rich Perez Pastor and storyteller Rich Perez casts vision for what it might look like to pursue love—love expressed with eyes wide open—in the context of the real world. Because love is not primarily a feeling, an emotion, or a sentiment, Perez challenges readers through a combination of memoir and teaching to take a different path than the momentum that carries the culture we live in. With the flavor of Washington Heights, New York, readers will be transported into Perez’s neighborhood on a journey to learn how to love again.
Mark Hearn By the year 2040, no major city in the United State will have a majority ethnic group.
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THE INSANITY OF OBEDIENCE BIBLE STUDY Nik Ripken Help your group learn to walk with God in tough places and follow Jesus joyfully, even in persecution. The Insanity of Obedience Leader Kit includes a Bible Study Book, The Insanity of Obedience book, and one DVD with a promotional video and six clips from The Insanity of God documentary. Bible Study Book 006104042 $12.99 Leader Kit 006104043 $49.99
This future nationwide reality has already been a present reality in several cities, including many in the urban south, for nearly a decade. Pastor Mark Hearn, faced with these realities, decided to make a change. In Technicolor, Hearn shares the life-changing story through his own lens. By reading his firsthand experience of this transition as a pastor, you too can be equipped to make the shift to church in technicolor. Paperback 006103899 $16.99
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Jeremy Royal Howard After Christmas is a powerful book for unbelievers who need an introduction to the birth of Christ and its implications, and believers who need further tutoring on the same points. Each chapter ends with a few simple, thought-provoking questions for individual reflection or small group discussion. The full Gospel of Luke is also included, making this the perfect leave-behind tool for personal evangelism.
Jeremy Royal Howard After Easter provides a brief case for the historical reality of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, followed by seven chapters describing the impact of His rising from the dead. The full Gospel of John is also included, making this the perfect leave-behind tool for personal evangelism. After Easter, everything changed.
Scott James “I enthusiastically recommend this book.” —David Platt
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Every Christmas, Christians all over the world celebrate the Advent season, recognizing the love, hope, joy, and peace that is found only in Jesus Christ. Through this devotional, Scott James brings to light the many promises of Christ—from birth to ascension—that demonstrate His love for us during this Christmas season. Hardcover 005673580 $9.99
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TEACHER David Francis Teaching is one of the three roles every Bible study leader must assume. This 64-page booklet is designed to help church leaders train volunteers who lead a Sunday School class or a small Bible study group. With the help of Michael Kelley and Ken Braddy, David Francis identifies elements of teaching that create a community built upon conversation around the Bible. range to bottom edge
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EXTREME SUNDAY SCHOOL CHALLENGE Bruce Raley and David Francis This 46-page booklet presents a rationale for starting new Bible study groups in the local church. The authors identify the potential new groups carry in reaching a community and developing believers. Essentials for starting new groups are defined as well as starting points. The authors propose that new groups lead to reaching lost people, maturing disciples, engaging people in ministry, and increasing available resources for ministry.
SPIRITUAL GIFTS Thomas R. Schreiner In Spiritual Gifts: What They Are and Why They Matter, Dr. Thomas R. Schreiner, one of the world’s leading New Testament scholars, answers some of the most difficult questions surrounding spiritual gifts and reminds us that we can have unity even with those with whom we disagree. Paperback 005805851 $16.99
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David Francis and Rick Howerton Based on extensive research, and the decades of experience shared by the authors, Countdown is a comprehensive must-have guide to launching and leading groups: how to start a group and why, the types of groups and the various roles within them, what to study, how to recruit new leaders, how to arrange the chairs, and so much more.
David Francis Challenges Sunday School leaders and teachers to have great expectations for what God can do through Sunday School.
Johnny Hunt Inform and inspire current and prospective deacons to grow spiritually and serve faithfully in the local church. This video-based study helps deacons understand the qualifications for serving, the importance of their call, and how to work well with other deacons. Sessions look at the deacon and his worthiness, his work, his wife, his worship, and his witness. (6 sessions)
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LEADING MAJOR CHANGE IN YOUR MINISTRY Jeff Iorg Leadership decisions in ministries have eternal consequences. Almost every church or organization needs—or soon will need—to be led through major change. Leading Major Change in Your Ministry is your guide to successfully getting it done.
THE DEACON FAMILY MINISTRY PLAN RESOURCE BOOK This handbook touches on all of the basic resources that deacons need to perform their duties. It includes a training unit on the Deacon Family Ministry Plan and more. Handbook 001117166 $12.99
DEACON MAGAZINE Deacon Magazine develops strong servant leaders who partner with the pastor in fulfilling the church’s mission and ministry. This resource includes inspirational devotions for your deacons meetings. Order this quarterly magazine for all your deacons and staff. Ministry Rate 005075215 $3.50 per copy, per quarter
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Robby Gallaty In Bearing Fruit, Robby Gallaty walks us through the life of the Christian. Biblical, intentional, and practical, Bearing Fruit points our hearts to the gracious God who called us, justified us, and is now sanctifying us by the work of his Holy Spirit.
Dino Senesi Sending Well: A Field Guide to Great Church Planter Coaching gives practical steps for creating a system that delivers great coaching to church planters. Whether you are coaching planters or attempting to develop coaches for multiple planters, this book will help you.
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HEARTS, HEADS, & HANDS
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Daniel Im Explores five micro-shifts that have the potential to produce macro-changes in your church. You will discover how to integrate these micro-shifts into the life of your church, starting with the way you disciple. You will then learn to develop a plan to structure, communicate, and evaluate these changes to ensure that they take root and pave the way for lasting change and kingdom impact.
Dr. Paul Cannings For pastors, preachers, lay teachers, and anyone in position to preach a sermon or teach a lesson, Big Idea Sermons is here to help.
M. David Sills Hearts, Heads, and Hands is the manifestation of a training method that missiologist, professor, and missions agency president, Dr. David Sills, has developed on the basis of decades of missions experience around the world. Paperback 005772040 $16.99
Jason G. Duesing Mere Hope is the core, hopeful perspective about life that all Christians share, and that Christians alone have to offer to a world full of hopelessness.
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Joey Shaw Everybody who follows Jesus will encounter a myriad of “authorities” that directly challenge the authority of Christ. These other “authorities” may be parents, teachers, bosses, presidents, institutions, religions, or ideologies. In order to stay firm in devotion to Jesus, we must believe that He has supreme authority over all. Not partial authority, not most authority—all authority. On the basis of His authority, He commissioned His people to go and make disciples among every people group on earth. This is an impossible commission if it were not for the promise that he is with them forever. The doctrine of the supreme authority of Christ not only upholds the work of the church, it is the central message that the church preaches. “Jesus is Lord” is good news! Paperback 005757130 $15.99
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Dr. Emerson Eggerichs There is a simple answer to finding God’s unique will for your life. When you obey the universal will of God, your obedience triggers your experience of the unique will of God for your life. Of course, that raises the question, “What is the universal will of God?” God has revealed 4 specific universal commands, or wills, and this book is about each. Though there is more to God’s universal will than these four, it is as though God declares, “Start Here!” Hardcover 005793602 $19.99
I AM GOING Daniel L. Akin and Bruce Riley Ashford How do we begin to walk and work with God, especially in dangerous situations? Authors Daniel L. Akin and Bruce Riley Ashford are calling today’s church members to lives of going out with the gospel of Jesus Christ—whether going around the world or to people right where they live. I Am Going is a resource created for individuals and churches to use together in calling even more to go. Hardcover 005786134 $12.99
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TELL SOMEONE Greg Laurie Most Christians are either afraid to share the gospel or feel that they don’t know how to do it, or both. But evangelism is simply telling two stories: Jesus’ and yours (how Jesus changed your life forever). This Bible study and book help group members identify people and places already in their daily routines, encouraging and empowering them to share the good news of Jesus Christ. This refreshing look at evangelism from one of the nation’s most prominent pastors and evangelists will help Christians—new and old alike—discover the joy of evangelism as the good news of Jesus naturally overflows into their daily lives. Hardcover 005776378 $12.99
TELL SOMEONE BIBLE STUDY Greg Laurie Discover the simple joy of evangelism as the good news of Jesus naturally overflows into your daily life. The Tell Someone Leader Kit includes a Bible Study Book, the original book on which the study is based, social-media content, and a DVD with a promotional video and six 15- to 20-minute teaching sessions. (6 sessions) Bible Study Book 005776124 $12.99 Leader Kit 005776125 $49.99
SHARING JESUS WITHOUT FREAKING OUT Alvin Reid God created you for His glory to advance His gospel with the gifts, talents, and opportunities He gave you. You live at this time in history for a purpose bigger than yourself. In Sharing Jesus Without Freaking Out, you will read how to connect the gospel story with your story, and how to talk about that story in normal conversations with people you know. Hardcover 005786809 $16.99
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TURNING EVERYDAY CONVERSATIONS INTO GOSPEL CONVERSATIONS Jimmy Scroggins & Steve Wright Authors Jimmy Scroggins and Steve Wright outline a reproducible method of sharing the gospel that has been tested in the real world. Turning Everyday Conversations into Gospel Conversations is a simple strategy to train new and seasoned believers to join God in His reconciliation work. Paperback 005794310 $12.99
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