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Ignite
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Product Description
Ignite is the ultimate how-to book for church leaders who want to reach more people for Jesus Christ. Pastor and founder of Church Leader Insights, Nelson Searcy, will provide practical, inventive guidelines for bringing first-time guests through the doors. This book sets forth a step-by-step, biblically grounded, proven plan for creating immediate church growth by utilizing a "Big Day" to mobilize the church for evangelism. This user-friendly guide will show church leaders what they need to do to reach the unchurched in their communities and break through the debilitating growth barriers that are holding them back. Through the inspiration of testimonies and stories, combined with the down-to-earth, applicable teaching that Searcy readers have come to expect and appreciate, Ignite will give church leaders the tools they desperately need to reach and keep modern-minded, unchurched people to create and sustain growth momentum.
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Item Specifications...
Pages 203
Dimensions: Length: 8.54" Width: 6.5" Height: 0.55"
Weight: 0.55 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date Oct 1, 2009
Publisher Baker Publishing Group
ISBN 0801072166
EAN 9780801072161
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Reviews - What do our customers think?
 | We've missed the obvious! Dec 31, 2009 |
From reading this book I/we have missed some good opportunities to capitalize on natural "big days" like Easter. We have done well on occasion but other years did not do the best. As the senior pastor I also have missed preaching opportunities to prep the "big day". I will avoid that and be more strategic.Finally, EVERY member and attendee needs to participate in "big days."
This book was concrete on very helpful suggestions. We will never let a big day slip by again. | | |  | A step-by-step guide to rapid church growth Dec 5, 2009 |
Any book that starts with the question, "What if your church could double in one day?" is likely to be of great interest to pastors around the world, and it is perhaps not surprising that Nelson Searcy's book shot onto this site's best seller list when it was released.
Searcy knows how to create a buzz when selling books, and he applies many of the same types of techniques to growing a church. He recommends that you put on "big days" to reach new people. Christmas and Easter are natural big days, and you should schedule a few others at strategic times. Get your church involved in the build-up to the big day, praying, fasting and inviting their friends. If everyone brings someone else, then the number of people in your church can double in one day.
I learned some useful new things from Searcy's previous books on assimilation and small groups, but I did not find much new content in this book, given that I have previously read "The Purpose Driven Church" and a lot of other church growth books. Nevertheless, it is written in an engaging style (thanks, presumably, to the literary expertise of the co-author Jennifer Dykes Henson) and it contains most of what you need to know if you subscribe to Searcy's Sunday-event-driven church growth model. If you are more a believer in an emerging church / missional community model, this book is not for you. | | | | IGNITE ROCKS! Dec 1, 2009 |
| What I love about Nelson's stuff is that it's not just theory - these are proven practices that will work in your setting. This book will give you practical tools to put into action immediately. I've personally tested these ideas, and found them tremendously helpful. Buy a copy for every leader on your team, and get going! | | | | Reaching the Unchurced Nov 24, 2009 |
This book is very practical in providing ways to reach the unchurched. It is a companion book to Nelson's book 'Fusion.' An excellent book on how to invite and encourage others to church. Here are 10 key points that I am hoping to personally apply from this book:
1. Schedule 4 Big days for the next 12 months, such as Christmas, mid-February, Easter and mid-September
2. Utilize a preaching calendar in order to give members the opportunities to invite for new series.
3. Prepare invitation cards for the Big Day events
4. Build some intentional relationships with unchurched in order to be able to make a list of 10 unchurched people, pray for and invite
5. Plan for growth rather than control
6. Provide simple tools for members that include a deadline to invite.
7. Start using the 5 Tool Time suggestions
8. Provide brief training during our Sunday worship
9. Plan with leadership to offer mass promotion. Need to decide what vehicle to use
10. Prepare, in writing, the evangelism system for my church. Make sure that I have ready `What to do for a new believer within an hour, day, week month and future.
| | |  | practical, helpful, plain spoken Nov 22, 2009 |
As an avid reader, I've read many of the big books on evangelism/church growth.
As with all of Nelson's books to date, he writes with clarity and simplicity that energizes the reader for action - which is what we imply when we read "how to" books. So, read with a highlighter in hand, then personalize YOUR "Big Day" on a legal pad. This book will help you have the confidence to do it and the tools to succeed...whether or not you've done it before or you think you know how.
Our first "big day" after reading the book was an 18% growth - and that was with only one month of prep. Just wait till the next one! Thanks Nelson...
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