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Membership Matters: Insights from Effective Churches on New Member Classes and Assimilation

Membership Matters: Insights from Effective Churches on New Member Classes and Assimilation

by Thom S. Rainer and Chuck Lawless

Insights from Effective Churches on New Member Classes and AssimilationFindings from a national study to improve membershipclasses and to motivate current members into activeministryHow do churches move members—both old and new—into ministry? Many church staff and lay leaders knowthey need to start new member classes as a point of entryinto their churche… Read more…

Unchurched Next Door: Understanding Faith Stages as Keys to Sharing Your Faith

Unchurched Next Door: Understanding Faith Stages as Keys to Sharing Your Faith

by Thom S. Rainer

In a national survey conducted by author Thom Rainer and his staff, eight out of ten unchurched men and women said they would come to church—if only someone would invite them. When and how is the next big question. Rainer helps you figure out where your neighbors, friends, and coworkers are in their spiritual quest, and how you can know who among the unchu… Read more…

Breakout Churches: Discover How to Make the Leap

Breakout Churches: Discover How to Make the Leap

by Thom S. Rainer

Breakout Churches Can Your Church Become One?This is the story of thirteen churches and the leaders who moved them from stagnancy to growth and from mediocrity to greatness. Drawing on one of the most comprehensive studies ever on the church, this book reveals the process of becoming a “breakout” church and the factors that lead to this spiritual metamor… Read more…

Unexpected Journey: Conversations with People Who Turned from Other Beliefs to Jesus
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Unexpected Journey: Conversations with People Who Turned from Other Beliefs to Jesus

by Thom S. Rainer and Don Reed

Narrated by Don Reed

Following Jesus is a journey none of the people in this book ever expected to take. Why did they? What difference did it make? The book you’re holding is dangerous. If you read it, you’ll see that God is still active in saving even the most unexpected people: An atheist woman who viewed Christians as “idiots.” A married couple high in… Read more…

Surprising Insights from the Unchurched and Proven Ways to Reach Them
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Surprising Insights from the Unchurched and Proven Ways to Reach Them

by Thom S. Rainer and Don Reed

Narrated by Don Reed

We’ve read all the hot books on evangelism, we’ve attended scores of seminars—and still we’re not reaching the unchurched. Eighty to ninety percent of churchless Americans will never darken our culturally relevant, seeker-sensitive doors. What are we missing?Maybe we’ve been asking the wrong people. Instead of consulting the unchurched masses, it… Read more…

Breakout Churches: Discover How to Make the Leap
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Breakout Churches: Discover How to Make the Leap

by Thom S. Rainer and Don Reed

Narrated by Don Reed

Breakout Churches Can Your Church Become One?This is the story of thirteen churches and the leaders who moved them from stagnancy to growth and from mediocrity to greatness. Drawing on one of the most comprehensive studies ever on the church, this book reveals the process of becoming a “breakout” church and the factors that lead to this spiritual metamor… Read more…

Unchurched Next Door: Understanding Faith Stages as Keys to Sharing Your Faith
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Unchurched Next Door: Understanding Faith Stages as Keys to Sharing Your Faith

by Thom S. Rainer and Don Reed

Narrated by Don Reed

If You Invite Them, They Will Come.It’s true. In a national survey done by author Thom Rainer and his staff, eight out of ten unchurched men and women said they would come to church—if only someone would invite them. When and how is the next big question. Rainer helps you figure out where your neighbors, friends, and coworkers are in their spiritual ques… Read more…

Raising Dad: What Fathers & Sons Learn from Each Other

Raising Dad: What Fathers & Sons Learn from Each Other

by Thom S. Rainer

All parents will tell you they learn as much from their children as their children learn from them. This truth is poignantly captured in Raising Dad: What Fathers & Sons Learn from Each Other by father-son authors Thom and Art Rainer.It was Art’s idea to write from a grown child’s perspective this tribute to his father’s successes as a pare… Read more…

Effective Evangelistic Churches

Effective Evangelistic Churches

by Thom S. Rainer

Part research project, part detective story, this book presents results from the most comprehensive study of successful churches in history. These 586 churches across America all excel in winning new souls for Christ, and have a remarkable range of things in common. Some stereotypes are shattered, some results are astonishing, and everything is written in a … Read more…


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