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  The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations

  by Ori Brafman, Rod A. Beckstrom

  Understanding the amazing force that links some of today's most successful companies If you cut off a spider's leg, it's crippled; if you cut off its head, it dies. But if you cut off a starfish's leg it grows a new one, and the old leg can grow into an entirely new starfish. What's the hidden power behind the success of Wikipedia, craigslist, and Skype? What do eBay and General Electric have in common... (more)
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  The Search to Belong: Rethinking Intimacy, Community, and Small Groups

  by Joseph R. Myers

  Community is a fundamental life search. We need to belong. In our time, we search with some increasing desperation as terms like neighbor, family, and congregation are being redefined.
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  Organic Church: Growing Faith Where Life Happens

  by Neil Cole

  Churches have tried all kinds of ways to attract new and younger members - revised vision statements, hipper worship, contemporary music, livelier sermons, bigger and better auditoriums. But there are still so many people who aren't being reached, who don't want to come to church. And the truth is that attendance at church on Sundays does not necessarily transform lives; God's presence in our hearts is what... (more)
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  The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21 Century Church

  by Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch

  Christendom is dying and needs to be removed from its life-support system. Starting with this frank assessment of the current church, Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch present an alternative model for ministry in todayÂ’s postmodern world. Instead of mourning the demise of the Western church as the center of society, the authors explain how the church can be reborn through incarnational mission, messianic... (more)
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  Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Faith in Community

  by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  After his martyrdom at the hands of the Gestapo in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer continued his witness in the hearts of Christians around the world. His Letters and Papers from Prison became a prized testimony to Christian faith and courage, read by thousands. Now in Life Together we have Pastor Bonhoeffer's experience of Christian community. This story of a unique fellowship in an underground seminary during the... (more)
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  Emerging Churches: Creating Christian Community in Postmodern Cultures

  by Eddie Gibbs

  The "emerging church" movement is perhaps the most significant church trend of our day. The emerging church offers and encourages a new way of doing and being the church. While it largely resonates with an eighteen-to-thirty-four-year-old audience--the first fully postmodern generation--it is also gaining popularity with older Christians and encompasses a broad array of traditional and contemporary churches.... (more)
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  The Sky Is Falling: Leaders Lost in Transition

  by Alan J. Roxburgh

  This is more than a book, it is a manifesto, a proposal for a new way of imagining a common life together as the pilgrim people of God seeking to fulfill God s purposes for the world in our time. If we need new kinds of churches, we cannot develop them with old kinds of leaders. We ourselves need to become those new kinds of leaders, even as we all look to the next generations to help them be formed in new... (more)
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  The Power of Vision

  by George Barna

  "Where there is no vision, the people perish" (Proverbs 29:18). What is vision, and why is it an essential element of any effective ministry? This relaunch contains updated material and a new introduction to introduce the truths in this book to new church leaders. Learn how € God has shared His vision throughout history * how vision is different than mission € common practices and beliefs that inhibit true... (more)
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  Discipleship (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Vol. 4)

  by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  "Cheap grace is the mortal enemy of our church. Our struggle today is for costly grace." And with that sharp warning to his own church, which was engaged in bitter conflict with the official nazified state church, Dietrich Bonhoeffer began his book Discipleship (formerly entitled The Cost of Discipleship). Originally published in 1937, it soon became a classic exposition of what it means to follow Christ in a... (more)
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  Compassionate Leadership

  by Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom

  Rediscovering Jesus' Radical Leadership Style. With these words, Jesus shattered an ancient culture's standard of leadership and if we in the modern world take them to heart, our ideas about leadership styles, models and methods will likewise be turned around. But how do we reach for this benchmark of servant leadership? In Compassionate Leadership, Ted Engstrom and Paul Cedar share their thoughts about the... (more)
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  Community and Growth: Our Pilgrimage Together Revised Edition

  by Jean Vanier

  A guide to communal life. Completely revised.
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  Prepare Your Church for the Future

  by Carl F. George

  By analyzing the present-day church and examining societal trends, Carl George presents a model that can mobilize your church for outreach. The author draws from his own extensive church-planting and church-growth experience to provide you with step-by-step strategies, based on a biblical understanding of the church and its mission.
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  The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church

  by Alan Hirsch

  Alan Hirsch is convinced that the inherited formulas for growing the Body of Christ do not work anymore. And rather than relying on slightly revised solutions from the past, he sees a vision of the future growth of the church coming about by harnessing the power of the early church, which grew from as few as 25,000 adherents in AD 100 to up to 20 million in AD 310. Such incredible growth is also being experienced... (more)
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  Leadership Next: Changing Leaders in a Changing Culture

  by Eddie Gibbs

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  Streams of Living Water : Celebrating the Great Traditions of Christian Faith

  by Richard J. Foster

  The author of the bestselling celebration of discipline explores the great traditions of christian spirituality and their role in spiritual renewal today In this landmark work, Foster examines the "streams of living water" -- the six dimensions of faith and practice that define Christian tradition. He lifts up the enduring character of each tradition and shows how a variety of practices, from individual study and... (more)
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  Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World

  by Margaret J. Wheatley

  Leadership and the New Science launched a revolution by demonstrating that ideas drawn from quantum physics, chaos theory, and molecular biology could improve organizational performance. Margaret Wheatley called for free-flowing information, individual empowerment, relationship networks, and organizational change that evolves organically -- ideas that have become commonplace. Now Wheatley's updated classic, based... (more)
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  The last word : beyond the Bible wars to a new understanding of the authority of Scripture

  by N. T. Wright

  While showing how both evangelicals and liberals misread Scripture, a leading Bible scholar and Anglican bishop shows how to restore the Bible’s authority today for guiding the church through its many controversies.