Deep and Wide: Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend
A Close Look at What It Takes to Create an Irresistible Church.
This isn't a book about how to make your church bigger. This is a book about how to make your church more appealing to the people who don’t usually—or have never—gone to church.
Deep and Wide provides church leaders with an in-depth look into North Point Community Church and its strategies, its goals, its methods, and its story. You'll learn how to create a church that unchurched people absolutely love to attend. Pastor Andy Stanley explains:
- His strategy for preaching and programming to both mature believers and skeptics.
- North Point's spiritual formation model: The Five Faith Catalysts.
- Three essential ingredients for creating irresistible environments.
- How to tackle the challenge of transitioning a local congregation.
Updated & Expanded edition includes discussion guide, church staff resources, and a Q&A with Andy!
"Andy Stanley is on the front lines of a major shift in how both Christians and non-Christians experience "church" in America. In Deep and Wide, Andy opens up his playbook for how North Point Community Church grew into one of the nation's most effective churches, openly shares their victories and failures, and shows you how to take your own church deeper in the Word and wider in appeal." —Dave Ramsey, New York Times bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio show host.
Top Highlights
“It is your responsibility to lead the church in the direction that Jesus originally intended. As a leader, your task is to protect the missional integrity of the Jesus gathering to which you have been called. It is your responsibility to see to it that the church under your care continues to function as a gathering of people in process; a place where the curious, the unconvinced, the skeptical, the used-to-believe, and the broken, as well as the committed, informed, and sold-out come together around Peter’s declaration that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God.” (source)
“Within a decade, the ekklesia ceased to be a movement. It was no longer an expanding group of people sharing a unique identity and purpose. It had become a location. The Romans called each of these gathering places a basilica, the Latin word used to denote a public building or official meeting place.” (source)
“People are far more interested in what works than what’s true. I hate to burst your bubble, but virtually nobody in your church is on a truth quest.” (source)
“something akin to a gravitational pull, drawing the church back in the direction of graceless religion and legalism” (source)
“The conclusions we draw about God in the midst of our pivotal circumstances drive us toward or away from him.” (source)
Product Details
- Title : Deep and Wide: Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend
- Author: Stanley, Andy
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publication Date: 2016
- ISBN: 9780310527497