Experiencing God: Knowing and Doing the Will of God by Henry Blackaby and Claude V. King (B&H Publishing Group, 2004).
Experiencing God describes how knowing God comes through relationship with a person, not through a method. This book challenges Christians to experience the fullness of a life lived in fellowship with a loving, personal God.

The Externally Focused Church by Rick Rusaw and Eric Swanson (Group Publishing, 2004).
Discover easy ways to share God’s love and grace with your community, no matter the size of your church. The Externally Focused Church gives several examples of congregations that made serving their communities a priority, and the dramatic results that followed.

Go Big with Small Groups: Eleven Steps to an Explosive Small Group Ministry by Bill Easum and John Atkinson (Abingdon, 2007) offers practical step-by-step directions to start, build, and manage a network of small groups aimed at fostering relationships and encouraging spiritual transformation.

Next Generation Leader: Five Essentials for Those Who Will Shape the Future by Andy Stanley (Multnomah, 2006).
Stanley focuses on providing a guide for younger church leaders on how to minister to a rapidly changing world. Developed from his leadership training sessions, Stanley’s book addresses leadership qualities such as character, courage, clarity, and competency.

The Present Future: Six Tough Questions for the Church by Reggie McNeal (Jossey-Bass, 2003).
In The Present Future, McNeal identifies the six most important realities that church leaders must address, such as recapturing the spirit of Christianity, focusing on spiritual formation rather than church programs and developing disciples instead of church members. McNeal contends that by changing the questions church leaders ask themselves about their congregations and their plans, they can frame the core issues and approach the future with new eyes, new purpose, and new ideas.

Purpose Driven Church: Growth without Compromising Your Message and Mission by Rick Warren (Zondervan, 1995).
This book encourages churches to think about their health, trusting that growth will naturally follow. Warren asserts that a healthy church is built when focusing not on the church itself, but its people, through fellowship, discipleship, worship and evangelism.

Reclaiming the Great Commission: A Practical Model for Transforming Denominations and Congregations by Bishop Claude Payne and Hamilton Beazley (Jossey-Bass, 2000).
Authors Payne and Beazley provide a biblically-based model for evangelism that will help twenty-first-century congregations plug into the power of the first-century church. The book guides churches into deeper and broader evangelism, an enhanced experience of community, and a renewed hope of personal and spiritual transformation.

Seeing Beyond Church Walls: Action Plans for Touching Your Community by Steve Sjogren (Group Publishing, 2001).
Imparting wisdom from church leaders such as Steve Sjogren, Dale Galloway, and Leonard Sweet, this book provides insights into transforming your church into becoming outwardly-focused. It teaches congregations to look beyond their internal needs to grip the hearts of those beyond church walls.

Simply Strategic Growth by Tim Stevens and Tony Morgan (Group, 2005) is comprised of 99 short chapters, each around a practical theme related to reaching more people. Chapter titles include: Launch on Easter; Assume Everyone is a Newcomer; Love Your Guests; and Give Hope to the Hopeless. Simply Strategic Growth by Tim Stevens and Tony Morgan (Group, 2005) is comprised of 99 short chapters, each around a practical theme related to reaching more people. Chapter titles include: Launch on Easter; Assume Everyone is a Newcomer; Love Your Guests; and Give Hope to the Hopeless.