Intentional Churches
How Implementing an Operating System Clarifies Vision, Improves Decision-Making, and Stimulates Growth
- Church Leadership & Ministry
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Published: 2020
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Publisher's Description
Do you want to reignite your passion for the local church and see your congregation live out the Great Commission by growing and making disciples? If so, implementing the revolutionary Intentional Growth Planning™ operating system will benefit you, your church, and your community! Just as laptops and smartphones have an operating system, the church needs a biblically based operating system where its various programs and activities can effectively plug in to. In Intentional Churches, Doug Parks and Bart Rendel combine their 35 years of executive church leadership experience and unveil a proven and practical operational system that will help you: Clarify your unique vision Filter trends and new ideas through your mission Improve implementation abilities Maintain unity and alignment around what matters most This is a repeatable and transferable process that any church can learn. Start today and be ready to go and grow through God's power for God's glory.
Endorsements (18)
“Intentional Churches is an invaluable resource that could single-handedly transform the impact of your church. Bart Rendel and Doug Parks bring years of hands-on experience, born in the trenches of ministry, to help leaders clarify their vision and align their passion with their practices. This is a book to read and reread with your team to increase your impact exponentially.”
“With lostness growing in North America, churches must become more effective than ever before at reaching their communities with the gospel. I believe as churches and individuals discover, pray for, and share the gospel with their ONE (as Bart and Doug describe in this book), people will meet the Lord, grow as disciples, and be deployed on mission around the world.”
“In our fast-changing world, nothing is more essential (or as challenging) as leading our teams with clarity, purpose, and focused goals. If you are looking to move your team from circular discussions into forward actions, ChurchOS is for you!”
“Any operating system is only as good as the character and experience behind the design of that system. Intentional Churches and its leaders embody not only high character and spiritual fervor in their mission, but have the depth of experience to bring practical and effective systems to life.”
“Intentional Churches has been a great friend to the General Baptist denomination over the past several years. We are so excited about this book because finally the content we have learned at our conferences and workshops is available.”
“So many pastors and church leaders have great dreams but lack strategy and systems to scale their vision. Intentional Churches is the missing ingredient! I’m thrilled to see this game-changing operating system, which has helped our church, now in the hands of thousands more leaders across the world because of this book.”
“Many churches are floundering. This book underscores what is desperately needed: a return to the fundamentals of the Great Commission. It still works because it’s God’s plan!”
“Intentional Churches takes us back to the fundamentals of the Great Commission. This book provides a systematic, strategic, and repeatable approach to align your team and your church to these fundamentals.”
“Bart and Doug have developed a phenomenal team of ministry professionals with Intentional Churches. They have an unmistakable heart for sharing the good news and an undeniable expertise for helping churches fulfill their mission.”
“This book uses two questions to drive your team to greater innovation: What would it look like to double our impact in five years? And, what would have to be true to make it happen? Read this book and become a multiplying church!”
“What I love about ChurchOS is it gives you a practical game plan regardless of your church’s size or season. And the best part is it’s not based on theory but on real results by real leaders in today’s church.”
“For many years, Intentional Churches has helped sharpen our vision, focus our strategy, and realize the impact that God has invited us to have in our city. Their framework for strategy and heartbeat for disciple making will help every leader and every church activate every Christian and every resource to accomplish the simple and profound calling on our lives . . . to make more and better disciples.”
“Doug and Bart have worked with hundreds of churches, refining and implementing the principles that made the Great Commission so powerful in the first century. Those of us who have benefited from their expertise and experience have been asking them to put these principles in a book to make them more accessible. If you are a church leader, this book is a game changer for reaching your community.”
“If you are a leader with a vision, you need to read Intentional Churches. Bart and Doug have written a book and developed a system that will give you the pathway to reach your vision and beyond. I am convinced churches that engage with this process will experience exponential impact through a healthy team.”
“Intentional Churches will challenge you and your team to make Luke 15 a driving force that aligns your church to reach more people for Christ.”
“Intentional Churches takes you back to the purpose of the church. You will be challenged and encouraged to elevate the priority of reaching those far from God. If you love the gospel and people, then I guarantee these principles and stories will chart a course for you as a Christian leader.”
“Intentional Churches provides the strategic tools, insights, and valuable action steps from practitioners who love the church and have been in the trenches. This book is a must-read and will be the book I give to my ministry friends this year.”
“If you are shopping for a book filled with cookie cutter quick fixes that promise to make your church grow overnight, then you have come to the wrong place. However, if you are looking for a strategic operating system that can guide you and your team through a clear and compelling process of discovering your church’s unique contribution in fulfilling the Great Commission, this is the book for you.”
Dr. Tim Harlow
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