 | Transforming Discipleship: Making Disciples a Few at a Time by Greg Ogden
Buy new: £9.15 / Used from: £4.64 Ultimately we are to become more like Christ and less like "us". This book challenges us to make disciples through one another relationships. Without that we are not building church.
|
 | The Habits of Highly Effective Churches: Being Strategic in Your God-given Ministry by George Barna
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £3.15 The book describes a ministry as being effective when lives are transformed such that people are constantly enabled to become more Christ-like. Very helpful book!
|
 | The Emotionally Healthy Church: A Strategy for Discipleship That Actually Changes Lives by Peter Scazzero
Buy new: £8.74 / Used from: £6.05 The call to discipleship is one where we must face up to who we really are and accept who God really is. This book empowers leaders to deal with themselves and to begin to help their people.
|
 | Overcoming the Dark Side of Leadership: The Paradox of Personal Dysfunction by Gary L. McIntosh
Buy used from: £3.81 Church leaders who want to make an honest evaluation of themselves and their relationship with God should begin by reading this book.
|
 | Antioch Effect, the by K. Hemph
Buy new: £7.14 / Used from: £1.93 An excellent book which focuses on biblical principles, not church growth strategies or techniques. This powerful book assists the reader to examine what kind of church has the power of God in it.
|
 | Family-Based Youth Ministry by Mark DeVries
Buy new: £8.74 / Used from: £6.76 The most important book ever written on youth ministry. If you want a healthy 21st century church read this book and apply the principles.
|
 | Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High by Kerry Patterson
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £5.94 Ok, this is a secular book but it is essential for any church leader to grasp the subject matter and wrestle with their own place in it.
|
 | Firestorm: Preventing and Overcoming Church Conflicts by Ron Susek
Buy new: £10.79 / Used from: £6.75 If you don't think you will ever need this book, then you absolutely need this book. I used to be naive too!
|
 | Set Apart: Calling a Worldly Church to a Godly Life by R Kent Hughes
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £4.00 The church must be distinct from the world to reach the world. If we fail to deal with the issues raised in this book, then ultimately we will fail to be the church.
|
 | The Purpose Driven Church: Growth Without Compromising Your Message and Mission by Rick Warren
Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £2.03 My least favourite book in the list. In my opinion it is too consumer led but there are some helpful ideas that centre around the 5 purposes of church.
|
Listmania!
