In Search of the Unchurched

Alan  C. Klaas

doi:10.5771/9781566995603

In Search of the Unchurched

Why People Don't Join Your Congregation

Published 1996

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doi.org/10.5771/9781566995603
ISBN print: 978-1-56699-169-8
ISBN online: 978-1-56699-560-3
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham

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Zusammenfassung

What's working and not working in your congregation? You'll explore the factors that inspired and motivated changes to reverse decline as other congregations wrestled with the same issues you're facing: ministry to current members, ministry to the unchurched, worship, changing neighborhoods, and more.

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Preface
1–12 CHAPTER 1: Things Were Going So Well! 1–12
13–15 CHAPTER 2: The Problem 13–15
16–20 CHAPTER 3: The Source of Solutions: Congregations 16–20
21–33 CHAPTER 4: Ministry to Members Only 21–33
34–49 CHAPTER 5: Ministry beyond Members 34–49
50–56 CHAPTER 6: The Unchurched: Who Are They? 50–56
57–64 CHAPTER 7: Worship Style: A Lightning-Rod Issue 57–64
65–68 CHAPTER 8: Ideas That Do Not Automatically Work 65–68
69–75 CHAPTER 9: Seven Words Say It All 69–75
76–102 CHAPTER 10: The Changed Society: How It Affects the Church 76–102
103–108 CHAPTER 11: Great Commission Outreach 103–108
109–130 APPENDIX: Church Membership Initiative Study Summaries 109–130
131–132 NOTES 131–132

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