You Only Have to Die

by Harnish, James A.

• ISBN13: 9780687066889
• ISBN10: 0687066883
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-07-31
• Publisher: Abingdon Pr

Summary

A moving testimony to how a church can experience rebirth by discerning its core mission.The key to becoming a Spirit-energized, people-loving, life-giving, community-transforming congregation, says James A. Harnish, is really very simple. All you have to do is be willing to die. This book describes how God calls each congregation to a specific mission, how God grants discernment to understand what that mission is, and how God enables the congregation to die to its entrenched attitudes and behaviors in order to be resurrected to a new life of ministry and witness.

Table of Contents

Those for Whom This Book Is Written	9	(118)
1. All the Way to the Heart	11	(10)
2. You Only Have to Die	21	(12)
3. For the Sake of the Call	33	(6)
4. Diagnosis: Congregational Cardiomyopathy	39	(6)
5. Cardiology Is Not for the Fainthearted	45	(16)
6. Vision Matters	61	(16)
7. Finding Your Future in Your Past	77	(14)
8. Prayer That Makes a Difference	91	(20)
9. The Heart of Transformation	111	(16)
10. Doing a New Thing	127	(16)
11. Worship That Goes to the Heart	143	(24)
12. Habits for a Healthy Heart	167	(12)
13. A Heart for the Future	179	(12)
Postscript. New Hope for Mainline Churches: God Isn't Finished with Us Yet	191	(4)
Resources for Congregational Cardiology	195