Growing an Engaged Church offers unique, research-based, often
counterintuitive solutions to the challenges facing churches, including
declining participation, contributions and membership. Clergy and church
leaders will find the evidence and answers in this book provocative,
eye-opening and actionable.
What if members of your congregation were 13 times more likely to have
invited someone to participate in your church in the past month? Three
times as satisfied with their lives? Spent more than two hours per week
serving and helping others in their community? And tripled their giving
to your church?
What would your church -- your parish -- look like? And how would you go
about creating this kind of change? One thing is certain: Church leaders
are never going to inspire more people to be actively and passionately
involved in their congregations by doing the same things over and over
again.
Pastors and lay leaders need something fresh. Something new. The last
thing they need is "just another program" or to set up a laundry list of
new activities for members.
In this compelling and insightful book, Al Winseman -- who has led
thriving churches, including one he built from the ground up -- explores
how churches and parishes can dramatically increase members'
participation, service to the community, giving and even life
satisfaction. But the solutions Winseman offers are not the "magic pill"
many leaders have come to expect. Rather, he shows leaders how to reach
and inspire the hearts, minds and imaginations of their people.
Based on solid research by Gallup, Growing an Engaged Church will
appeal to Protestant and Catholic clergy and lay leaders who are looking
for a way to be the Church instead of just "doing church."
