Product Description: Accelerating diversity of lifestyles has created a crisis for worship designers. One size does not fit all. No worship service can be “blended” to address the complete needs of a congregation. Moreover, church “shopping” is ending as people are choosing a worship service that directly meets their fundamental anxieties about life (regardless of style)...read more

Product Description: In See, Know & Serve, Tom Bandy demonstrates how our communities and congregations are changing, and how our reliance on ‘best ministry practices’ no longer makes sense. What works in one congregation won’t work the same way in another, because our congregations are so different from one another, and our communities are so diverse...read more

Product Description: 95 Questions to Shape the Future of Your Church is a comprehensive commentary on systemic change for the church. It combines the spirit of Luther’s 95 Theses with depth of insight akin to Luther’s reformation catechism. This book will be essential for every congregational, denominational, and seminary bookshelf...read more

Product Description: Acclaimed author and consultant Tom Bandy seeks to create a new dynamic for leadership in the new century--a dynamic based on flexible teams, spirited leadership, and management aimed at training and empowering leaders. He calls for organizational action to be centered around teams that are given freedom to act within the corporate trust and the boundaries that identify the heartburst of the company...read more

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Product Description: Christian OptiMystics: Running the Rapids of the Spirit, by Dwayne O. Ratzlaff and Thomas G. Bandy, is unique in methodology. A personal story of clergy misconduct is caught through the lens of a real-time spiritual practice. The book employs a dynamic methodology to present the story to the public...read more

Product Description: While mainline denominations have historically depended on young people who enroll in seminary for their leadership, late bloomers and second-career types are increasingly moving directly into ministry, then picking up training as they go along...read more

Product Description: Written in Spanish, this is the ground-breaking book that has shown thousands of congregations how to overcome the destructive attitudes and systems that prevent them from focusing on their true mission: making disciples of Jesus Christ...read more

Product Description: with your first breath or your last penny, will it be God's mission or "Me First"?

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Product Description: An upgrade to the ground-breaking book that has shown thousands of congregations how to overcome the destructive attitudes and systems that prevent them from focusing on their true mission: making disciples of Jesus Christ. In this upgraded edition, Bandy continues to explore the meaning of walking with Jesus in the 21st century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: "Thomas Bandy continues his exploration of congregational life by arguing that the organization of a congregation - its boards and committees - constitutes a crucial ingredient in its vitality and mission. The way in which a church is organized will make all the difference in whether it becomes what Bandy has named elsewhere a thriving church system or a declining one...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Growing Spiritual Redwoods is an effort to help church leaders answer the kinds of questions that confront congregations and Christians in this era of rapid and uncertain change in the church.  These questions include: Are you committed to Jesus Christ, or to a particular doctrine, denomination, or church? Do you speak of faith as an experience of Christ, or as a heritage that you protect? Do you believe that ministry is to make disciples or members? William Easum and Thomas Bandy believe that deep spiritual vitality and an openness to the new thing that God is doing will characterize the "spiritual redwoods" that emerge from this time of change...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)