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Small Church Essentials

Field-Tested Principles for Leading a Healthy Congregation of Under 250

By: Karl Vaters

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Small Church Essentials

Field-Tested Principles for Leading a Healthy Congregation of Under 250

By: Karl Vaters

Do you lead a small church? Big churches get all the love. Articles, books, conferences—they mostly feature leaders of large congregations. Yet big churches are a small part of the ecclesial landscape. In fact, more than 90 percent of churches have fewer than 200 people. That means small churches play a big part in what God is doing. Small Church Essentials is for leaders of these smaller congregations. It encourages them to steward their role well, debunking myths about small churches while offering principles for leading a dynamic, healthy small church. Based on the popular six-hour lecture that Karl Vaters delivers to church leaders across the country, Small Church Essentials will affirm small church leaders and show them how to identify what they do well, and how to do it even better. Readers will: Be assured that leading a small congregation does not make them ministry failures Come away inspired to lead with passion, regardless the size of their church Have field-tested principles for leading a church in their context Possess new metrics for biblically measuring vitality in small churches Have a toolkit of resources to use in their everyday ministry Karl Vaters has been a small church pastor for 30 years, is the author of The Grasshopper Myth: Big Churches, Small Churches, and the Small Thinking that Divides Us (2013), and travels extensively to churches and conferences to speak about leading a small church well. If you are pastoring a small church, this book will be a breath of fresh air. It will affirm your calling while giving you fresh tools to help you lead. It will help you: Stop believing lies about small churches Lead your church to fulfill the role only small churches can Understand your congregation’s strengths and weaknesses Turn around a dying or unhealthy church Identify good trends and bad in church and culture

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Moody Publishers

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0802496369

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The Church Recovery Guide

How Your Congregation Can Adapt and Thrive after a Crisis

By: Karl Vaters

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The Church Recovery Guide

How Your Congregation Can Adapt and Thrive after a Crisis

By: Karl Vaters

What’s Next for Your Church? In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, church leaders are facing challenges they’ve never encountered. As you scramble to adapt to this fast-changing situation, you must also begin thinking through the months ahead to consider: how will my church recover? The Church Recovery Guide outlines the practical steps you can take to help your church not only survive but also thrive in the aftermath of the coronavirus crisis. Pastor Karl Vaters offers insights from his extensive experience in church ministry to help you think through: - Reconnecting with your congregation - Dealing with the financial repercussions - Encouraging and supporting your staff - Clearly communicating a fresh vision for the future - Reworking your church’s technology and online strategy - Ministering to people feeling isolated and fearful The Church Recovery Guide will provide the direction you need to help your church bounce back to full health and chart a path forward to even greater vitality.

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0802499678

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100 Days to a Healthier Church

A Step-By-Step Guide for Pastors and Leadership Teams

By: Karl Vaters

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100 Days to a Healthier Church

A Step-By-Step Guide for Pastors and Leadership Teams

By: Karl Vaters

A 100-Day Plan That’s Practical, Realistic, and Actually Works You see the problems in your church, and you truly believe it could be better. Not perfect, but healthier. If you want more for your church but aren’t quite sure how to get there, 100 Days to a Healthier Church was written for you. It teaches you how to: Identify your church’s current level of health using the "Church Health Continuum" Make big changes through small nudges rather than giant leaps Grow your strengths and tackle your weaknesses one at a time After years of trial and error, pastor and author Karl Vaters developed a tested and proven 15-week process that’s manageable, adaptable, and effective. It won’t fix everything overnight, but it will help you figure out what to do next. Great for individual pastors, perfect for church leadership teams!

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0802497853

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De-sizing the Church

How Church Growth Became a Science, Then an Obsession, and What's Next

By: Karl Vaters

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De-sizing the Church

How Church Growth Became a Science, Then an Obsession, and What's Next

By: Karl Vaters

Big churches didn’t create the problems facing today’s congregations. But our obsession with size has come at a great cost. We’re obsessed with bigness. Supersized meals and TV screens. Square footage. And big churches. “What’s the size of your church?” That question has stirred insecurities or stroked the ego of too many pastors. For a long time, we thought bigger was better. “Church growth” and “numbers” dominated our thoughts and conversations. But more than ever, people are feeling disconnected. Trust in the church is dwindling. In De-sizing the Church, pastor Karl Vaters takes us on a multi-faceted journey through our centuries-long obsession with size, both in and outside the church, and how it has negatively affected those who serve and worship in big and small congregations alike. He also dispels some prevailing myths and affirms what was good and true about the Church Growth Movement. And he invites us to consider how removing church size from the equation can be an essential element in rebuilding trust, restoring relationships, and renewing our spiritual lives. This book reframes the way we see the size of our churches and helps us see health and fruitfulness through de-sized lenses. The result? Renewed congregations that reach surrounding communities and faithfully engage culture.

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Moody Publishers

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0802499872

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9780802499875

The Church Recovery Guide

How Your Congregation Can Adapt and Thrive after a Crisis

By: Karl Vaters

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How Your Congregation Can Adapt and Thrive after a Crisis

By: Karl Vaters

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William Shakespeare

By: L. Dora Schmitz,Karl Elze

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William Shakespeare

By: L. Dora Schmitz,Karl Elze

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

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338549673X

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Schillers sämtliche Schriften

Fünfter Teil Erster Band: Dom Karlos, Wortverzeichnis

By: Karl Goedeke

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Schillers sämtliche Schriften

Fünfter Teil Erster Band: Dom Karlos, Wortverzeichnis

By: Karl Goedeke

Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.

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3752501448

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Theory of Language

The representational function of language

By: Karl Bühler

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Theory of Language

The representational function of language

By: Karl Bühler

Karl Bühler (1879–1963) was one of the leading theoreticians of language of the twentieth century. Although primarily a psychologist, Bühler devoted much of his attention to the study of language and language theory. His masterwork Sprachtheorie (1934) quickly gained recognition in the fields of linguistics, semiotics, the philosophy of language and the psychology of language. This new edition of the English translation of Bühler’s theory begins with a survey on ‘Bühler’s legacy’ for modern linguistics (Werner Abraham), followed by the Theory of Language, and finally with a special ‘Postscript: Twenty-five Years Later ...’ (Achim Eschbach). Bühler’s theory is divided into four parts. Part I discusses the four axioms or principles of language research, the most famous of which is the first, the organon model, the base of Bühler's instrumental view of language. Part II treats the role of indexicality in language and discusses deixis as one determinant of speech. Part III examines the symbolic field, dealing with context, onomatopoeia and the function of case. Part IV deals with the elements of language and their organization (syllabification, the definition of the word, metaphor, anaphora, etc).The text is accompanied by an Introduction (Achim Eschbach); Translator's preface (Donald Fraser Goodwin); Glossary of terms; and a Bibliography of cited works.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027286868

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Durch Wüste und Harem

By: Karl May

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Durch Wüste und Harem

By: Karl May

Reproduction of the original: Durch Wüste und Harem by Karl May

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A Holo-evolutionistic Conception of Fossil and Contemporaneous Man

By: Heinrich Karl Erben

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A Holo-evolutionistic Conception of Fossil and Contemporaneous Man

By: Heinrich Karl Erben

Das vor allem von der Literaturwissenschaft gestellte, aber bisher kaum in vollem Umfang gel�ste Problem einer rezeptions�sthetischen Fundierung der �sthetischen Produktion wird in dieser Arbeit am Gegenstand der Bach-Aneignung des sp�ten Beethoven durchgefuehrt. Dafuer wird einerseits die �berlieferungs- und Wirklichkeitsgeschichte Bachscher Werke im 18. und fruehen 19. Jahrhundert rekonstruiert, andererseits erfolgt vor dem Bedingungs- und Erm�glichungsgrund des geschichtlich gewordenen Bach-Verst�ndnisses eine Auslegung von Beethovens Sp�twerk.

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Franz Steiner Verlag

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3515039120

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100 Days to a Healthier Church

A Step-By-Step Guide for Pastors and Leadership Teams

By: Karl Vaters

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A Step-By-Step Guide for Pastors and Leadership Teams

By: Karl Vaters

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Moody Publishers

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Dionysos

By: Karl Kerényi

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Dionysos

By: Karl Kerényi

No other god of the Greeks is as widely present in the monuments and nature of Greece and Italy, in the sensuous tradition of antiquity, as Dionysos. In myth and image, in visionary experience and ritual representation, the Greeks possessed a complete expression of indestructible life, the essence of Dionysos. In this work, the noted mythologist and historian of religion Carl Kerényi presents a historical account of the religion of Dionysos from its beginnings in the Minoan culture down to its transition to a cosmic and cosmopolitan religion of late antiquity under the Roman Empire. From the wealth of Greek literary, epigraphic, and monumental traditions, Kerényi constructs a picture of Dionysian worship, always underlining the constitutive element of myth. Included in this study are the secret cult scenes of the women's mysteries both within and beyond Attica, the mystic sacrificial rite at Delphi, and the great public Dionysian festivals at Athens. The way in which the Athenian people received and assimilated tragedy in its immanent connection with Dionysos is seen as the greatest miracle in all cultural history. Tragedy and New Comedy are seen as high spiritual forms of the Dionysian religion, and the Dionysian element itself is seen as a chapter in the religious history of Europe.

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Princeton University Press

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0691029156

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Die Stiftung von Autorschaft in der neulateinischen Literatur (ca. 1350-ca. 1650)

Zur autorisierenden und wissensvermittelnden Funktion von Widmungen, Vorworttexten, Autorporträts und Dedikationsbildern

By: Karl A. E. Enenkel

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Die Stiftung von Autorschaft in der neulateinischen Literatur (ca. 1350-ca. 1650)

Zur autorisierenden und wissensvermittelnden Funktion von Widmungen, Vorworttexten, Autorporträts und Dedikationsbildern

By: Karl A. E. Enenkel

This book throws new light on the question of authorship in the Latin literature of the later medieval and in the early modern periods. It shows that authorship was not something to be automatically assumed in an empathic sense, but was chiefly to be found in the paratextual features of works and was imparted by them. This study examines the strategies and tools used by authors ca. 1350-1650, to assert their authorial aspirations. Enenkel demonstrates how they incorporated themselves into secular, ecclesiastical, spiritual and intellectual power structures. He shows that in doing so rituals linked to the ceremonial of ruling, played a fundamental role, for example, the ritual presentation of a book or the crowning of a poet. Furthermore Enenkel establishes a series of qualifications for entry to the Respublica litteraria, with which the authors of books announced their claims to authorship.

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BRILL

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9004278451

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9789004278455

Benno Stehkragen

By: Karl Ettlinger

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Benno Stehkragen

By: Karl Ettlinger

Reproduction of the original: Benno Stehkragen by Karl Ettlinger

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Book's by Karl Vaters

Small Church Essentials

Small Church Essentials

The Church Recovery Guide

The Church Recovery Guide

100 Days to a Healthier Church

100 Days to a Healthier Church

De-sizing the Church

De-sizing the Church

The Church Recovery Guide

The Church Recovery Guide

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

Schillers sämtliche Schriften

Schillers sämtliche Schriften

Theory of Language

Theory of Language

Durch Wüste und Harem

Durch Wüste und Harem

A Holo-evolutionistic Conception of Fossil and Contemporaneous Man

A Holo-evolutionistic Conception of Fossil and Contemporaneous Man

100 Days to a Healthier Church

100 Days to a Healthier Church

Dionysos

Dionysos

Die Stiftung von Autorschaft in der neulateinischen Literatur (ca. 1350-ca. 1650)

Die Stiftung von Autorschaft in der neulateinischen Literatur (ca. 1350-ca. 1650)

Benno Stehkragen

Benno Stehkragen

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