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Wisdom from Lyle E. Schaller

The Elder Statesman of Church Leadership

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Wisdom from Lyle E. Schaller

The Elder Statesman of Church Leadership

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One poll declared him the most influential American church leader of the last 100 years. Lyle E. Schaller has written literally millions of words of insight and advice for church leaders. His books alone number nearly 60 titles and span 40 years of publication, beginning in 1964. Now, this single volume makes available his best insights, organized by topic and framed with fascinating background perspective of Schaller himself. This volume both introduces Schaller to a new generation of church leaders and is a handy resource for those who grew up on Schaller's writing and count him as a major ministry influence.

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Wisdom from Lyle E. Schaller

The Elder Statesman of Church Leadership

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Small Congregation, Big Potential

Ministry in the Small Membership Church

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Small Congregation, Big Potential

Ministry in the Small Membership Church

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Kindle Edition There are many questions that leaders of small-membership congregations ask themselves about their church's future. Lyle Schaller suggests that two in particular should rise to the top of the list. First, what's the right size of for a church? Is the small congregation averaging two or three dozen people at worship a legitimate order of God's creation? You bet it is, says Schaller. Second, should these congregations make their plans on the basis of few resources and fewer options, or should they see themselves as possessed of pools of talent and expanding possibilities? If you are convinced that the former is true, then this book is not for you. If, however, you are among those who believe that small-membership churches are distinctive places of Christian witness and service, spreading the gospel and living in service to the world in ways that other, larger churches are not, then this book is for you. In it you will find the right questions to ask as you seek to lead a small-membership congregation, and solid, practical guidance for doing so.

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1426731868

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44 Ways to Increase Church Attendance

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44 Ways to Increase Church Attendance

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Are you still suffering over the sight of empty pews? Have your efforts been more than exhaustive in expanding your congregation? Have you maximized your brainstorming potential for bringing in new members? If you have reached what appears to be your limit, then no longer fret, 44 Ways To Increase Church Attendance can open the doors of both your church and mind. With proven techniques for building a body for Christ, church leaders can increase their membership and then free themselves to focus on other important missions for God. Schaller's suggestions will energize leaders and put their churches on the road of abundance.

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1426719337

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From Cooperation to Competition

Change, Choice, and Conflict in the Congregation

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From Cooperation to Competition

Change, Choice, and Conflict in the Congregation

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America's foremost interpreter of congregational life explores the ways that change in the church can lead either to destructive conflict or healthy competition

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44 Questions for Church Planters

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44 Questions for Church Planters

By: Lyle E. Schaller

Lyle E. Schaller is America's most influential religious leader among all denominations, according to a survey of more than three thousand religious leaders conducted by the Hartford Religious Research Center and reported in the Los Angeles Times.

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Growing Plans

By: Lyle E. Schaller

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Growing Plans

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Five different strategies for increasing the size of the congregation are developed by Lyle E. Schaller - with applications to small, middle-sized, and larger churches. Schaller also includes comments on the formulation of a workable denominational strategy for church growth. No church exists in complete isolations from all other churches, notes Schaller, "although thousands of congregations appear not to believe it." Effectively using an informative case-history approach to outlining church-growth strategies, Schaller works from several basic assumptions. Visitation evangelism is the ideal method of obtaining new members, he says, but it is not always appropriate. He warns of the tendency of long-established congregations to attract "new" members from other churches..."the circulation of the saints." Schaller also assumes that every church's approach to growth will rest on a foundation of its values, goals, dreams, prejudices, assumptions, interpretations of reality, theological perspectives, and understanding of the biblical imperative. It is good, says Schaller, for Christians to be members of congregations; it is good for congregations to receive new members; and it is good for denominations to grow in numbers.

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The Pastor and the People

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The Pastor and the People

By: Lyle E. Schaller

How can the pastor and the congregation best forge a dynamic and productive partnership? What do the most successful churches do to maximize their effectiveness? Answers to these questions and more await you in this revised edition of Lyle E. Schaller's The Pastor and the People. Every year for the past quarter-century, Lyle E. Schaller has personally visited and studied one hundred to three hundred congregations representing better than three dozen denominations across the United States and Canada. This extraordinary experience has earned him wisdom and insight that he shares with you here.

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0687301351

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The Seven-day-a-week Church

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The Seven-day-a-week Church

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With brilliant insight and engaging description, Schaller reveals the reasons behind the worldwide emergence of Seven-Days-a-Week "megachurches", which are more likely to be inclusive and pluralistic while small churches are more likely to be homogeneous and exclusive. Over one million copies of books written or edited by Schaller are now in print.

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Reflections of a Contrarian

Second Thoughts on the Parish Ministry

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Reflections of a Contrarian

Second Thoughts on the Parish Ministry

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Over his productive, twenty-five-year career as "America's foremost authority on the dynamics of church life" Leadership magazine), Lyle E. Schaller has written or edited books whose total sales now exceed 1 million copies. In Reflections of a Contrarian, Schaller asserts the time has come to challenge the "conventional wisdom" regarding twelve church-related issues. Schaller offers insights based on his twenty-eight years working as a consultant to more than four dozen religious bodies.

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The New Reformation

Tomorrow Arrived Yesterday

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The New Reformation

Tomorrow Arrived Yesterday

By: Lyle E. Schaller

Of Lyle Schaller's 21 signs of the New Reformation, here are five: (1) a new era in Christian music; (2) hundreds of new information resources for congregations, including parachurches, teaching churches, independent entrepreneurs, theological seminaries, profit-driven businesses, retreat centers, and independent mission-sending agencies; (3) market-driven planning; (4) a new level of trust in the laity; and (5) the flattening of hierarchical structures.

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The Very Large Church

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The Very Large Church

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One of the most crucial changes in North American life, Lyle E. Schaller explains, has been the shift from small to large institutions. Sixty years ago one-teacher, one-room schoolhouses still abounded, and the average number of students in all American schools was one hundred. Now new construction on elementary schools is often for facilities that will accommodate more than twelve hundred students, and average school size is over six hundred. Similar changes have happened in several other branches of American life. These changes, Schaller contends, mean that the rules have changed for everyone involved in organizational life. Very large churches—megachurches—will increasingly come to embody the new rule-book for congregations. Extending their mission far beyond a single local neighborhood, they will draw large numbers of visitors, helping them move progressively from skeptics or seekers to believers to learners to disciples to apostles. The Very Large Church was written for those congregational leaders, both volunteer and paid staff, who recognize that their old rule-book is obsolete and who are eager to learn how to participate effectively in the very large church in a context that is defined by the culture, the societal context, clearly defined expectations, a theological belief system, a passion for evangelism, a high level of competence, creativity, innovation, and a new and different set of rules, rather than by local traditions, geographical boundaries, or yesterday's stereotypes. Key Features: • Focuses on issues in organization life—Schaller's strong suit • Addresses a tendency that is growing today Key Benefits: • Places the shift to large churches within the context of a cultural shift from small to large institutions • Demonstrates how and why the old rule-book for organizational structure must change • Helps church leaders understand how to make the transition to the megachurch culture while retaining Christian integrity

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Getting Things Done

Concepts and Skills for Leaders

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Getting Things Done

Concepts and Skills for Leaders

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Church and ministerial leadership. Explores 12 key leadership charecteristics.

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Looking in the Mirror

Self-appraisal in the Local Church

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Looking in the Mirror

Self-appraisal in the Local Church

By: Lyle E. Schaller

When you look at your church, what image do you see? A small, self-sufficient fellowship - reminiscent, perhaps, of a cat? Or a responsive, affectionate congregation - more like, say, a collie? If your congregation numbers into the hundreds at worship time, could you think of it as a large and unified "mansion"? Or a diversified "ranch"? Is your church legalistic, with a heavy emphasis on rules and regulations? Is it ideological, stressing belief? Or does it comprise a loving, nurturing behaviorism? "Frequently," says Lyle Schaller, "it is difficult or impossible for congregational leaders to agree on the role God is calling that church to fill unless they can agree on contemporary reality." Looking in the Mirror provides a conceptual framework for church self-appraisal that can be a key factor in determining that reality and overcoming the passivity that blights so many congregations today.

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The Small Church is Different!

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The Small Church is Different!

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Examines four major areas of concern affecting small churches: self-esteem, youth ministries, the financial base, and church growth. Looks at church staffing and discusses the key role of the Sunday school.

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Activating the Passive Church

Diagnosis & Treatment

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Activating the Passive Church

Diagnosis & Treatment

By: Lyle E. Schaller

Has your church fallen into a predictable routine? Is it drifting without purpose or resolve? Put an end to that by using Lyle E. Schaller's potent prescription for passive churches. Written for both lay and ordained congregational leaders, this timely book diagnoses the causes of church passivity, and formulates a method for combatting the problem. Dr. Schaller classifies churches according to their internal dynamics (rather than denomination or geographical location), and demonstrates how many have overcome the "twenty-year syndrome" - that awkward time when relatively new churches tend to lose their sense of direction. He also shows how churches can make a smooth transition from one pastor to another, and how new members can be used in establishing an effective church program. The cumulative result of twenty years of experience in parish trouble-shooting, Dr. Schaller's new book will be welcomed by church leaders everywhere who face the dreaded spectre of church passivity.

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Survival Tactics in the Parish

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Survival Tactics in the Parish

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Strategies for Change argues that church growth techniques and measurements are only symptomatic. Change is the larger issue in any institution. This book is the fruit of the author's popular week-long workshops on planned change. The author begins by focusing on the institutional context for change. Is your church a high-commitment covenant community or a voluntary association? Where are the sources of authority for making changes? What kinds of leaders can best make changes? The book concludes with a checklist of strategies and tactics for making changes.

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Effective Church Planning

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Effective Church Planning

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Lyle E. Schaller offers seven basic factors for translating important new concepts from the behavioral sciences into terms that can be used for effectively solving church problems. Is guilt a means of motivation in your church? How does the appearance of the meeting place affect the type or quality of worship a church has? Specific and relatively common issues such as these, which face nearly every church of every denomination at one point or another, are discussed, as well as budgeting, worship, evangelism, expansion of facilities, tenure, fellowship, and motivation. Schaller includes a chapter on "Symptoms or Problems?" and uses four case studies to illustrate how easy it is to focus on symptoms rather than on basic underlying causes. Lyle Schaller believes that armed with a realistic diagnosis, almost everyone has the potential to be a problem-solver and respond creatively and innovatively. His method of problem-solving encourages us not to dwell on past mistakes or regrets, but to plan with the future in mind.

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The Multiple Staff and the Larger Church

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The Multiple Staff and the Larger Church

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Expert Lyle Schaller helps the leaders of larger churches understand the special characteristics of these churches, and helps members of multiple staffs see their role and the context of that role more clearly.

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0687272971

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Hey, That's Our Church!

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Hey, That's Our Church!

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Author tackles the major problems most often associated with several types of churches.

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It's a Different World!

The Challenge for Today's Pastor

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It's a Different World!

The Challenge for Today's Pastor

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In It's a Different World best-selling author/consultant Lyle E. Schaller tackles the question, Why is pastoring especially difficult in the 1980s? It's a Different World! helps church leaders understand and effectively grapple with the "new realities" of church life today. It contains indispensable insights and an excellent overview of the new challenges and opportunities facing today's church professionals.

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Tattered Trust

Is There Hope for Your Denomination?

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Tattered Trust

Is There Hope for Your Denomination?

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All Protestant denominations face difficult times ahead. Some are merely surviving financial crisis. Many have no compelling direction regarding missions and evangelism. Most are in denial about the outcome. In Tattered Trust, Lyle E. Schaller argues that there is hope for denominations. With special focus on The Episcopal Church, The Evangelical Lutheran Church, The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), The Southern Baptist Convention, and The United Methodist Church, he offers seven scenarios that local church and denominational officials can pursue as each church leader confronts the opportunity of whether to be a victim or a reformer.

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What Have We Learned?

The Best Thinking on Congregational Life

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What Have We Learned?

The Best Thinking on Congregational Life

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Declaring himself an unabashed optimist, Lyle E. Schaller looks back at four decades of observing religious life in North America and concludes that the church has far more reason for hope than for worry as it charts its course into the next forty years. Acknowledging that the roles of parish pastors and leaders have become increasingly complex, he also points out that these leaders can be far better equipped to contribute to congregational vitality and growth than were their predecessors a generation ago. Schaller draws on his own work, as well as that of others, to point to crucial lessons learned in evangelism, multiculturalism, stewardship, worship, communication, and other areas. He concludes that, armed with these tools, the lay and clergy leaders of congregations can be more faithful and more effective in leading their churches in the path God has chosen.

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0687045401

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44 Ways to Expand the Teaching Ministry of Your Church

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44 Ways to Expand the Teaching Ministry of Your Church

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As he shows how to identify the priorities for the Christian education program in any church, Schaller takes an approach often considered contrary to what is offered by educators. Helpful tips explain how teaching is the best way (after preaching) to attract new members; teaching reinforces preaching and liturgy; teaching activates a passive congregation, and more.

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0687132894

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21 Bridges to the 21st Century

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21 Bridges to the 21st Century

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The past five decades have altered the role of churches, and the third millennium will bring an even more radically different context for ministry. In this important book, Schaller discusses four dozen factors that will provide challenges and opportunities for pastoral ministries in the next millennium.

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0687426642

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The Senior Minister

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The Senior Minister

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Outlines the role and responsibilities of the senior minister in the large congregation. Offers insight into the skills and point of view that will make a senior minister an initiating leader.

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