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    Deep and Wide: Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend
    Deep and Wide: Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend
    Deep and Wide: Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend
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    Deep and Wide: Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend

    Written by Andy Stanley

    Narrated by Tom Parks

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    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZondervan
    Release dateSep 25, 2012
    ISBN9780310494867
    Author

    Andy Stanley

    Communicator, author, and pastor Andy Stanley founded Atlanta-based North Point Ministries (NPM) in 1995. Today, NPM consists of eight churches in the Atlanta area and a network of 180 churches around the globe that collectively serve over 200,000 people weekly. As host of Your Move with Andy Stanley, which delivers over 10.5 million messages each month through television, digital platforms, and podcasts, and author of more than 20 books, including Irresistible; Better Decisions, Fewer Regrets; and Deep & Wide, Andy is considered one of the most influential pastors in America.

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    • 5/5
      This is a great guide to what Church should really be!
    • 5/5
      Para todo líder de iglesia que desea ser parte de lo que Dios está haciendo alrededor del mundo. Si tu deseos es hacer un aporte efectivo, entonces es necesario la lectura de este libro.
    • 4/5
      Thank you, the questions part . I am challenged and encouraged
    • 5/5
      great read, I gleaned a lot from Stanley's approach to ministry
    • 4/5
      Good but not outstanding. I agree with most, but not all.
    • 4/5
      A challenge to think a little different about church. Not all will agree with him.
    • 4/5
      Deep & Wide should be required reading for any ministry taking a look at itself and wanting to look further than their belly button. Andy is an excellent communicator and deep & wide carries that tradition well. My only dislikes are his generalizations of liberals and those outside his click (Southern Baptist) are lacking and demonstrates not only his bias but also a lot of ignorance, which I'm attributing to lack of exposure so I'm letting it slide. Also, I know more of his story with his dad than he shares and have a different version and feel he was less than truthful; however, that's not my story to tell and leave it up to his conscience to wrestle with it.
    • 5/5
      I recently finished Andy Stanley’s Deep & Wide, which came out in September of last year (2012). Deep & Wide is honest and direct: Andy Stanley wants to change the way you do church. Part auto-biography, part philosophy of ministry, Stanley unpacks the what, why, and how (“the secret sauce”) behind North Point Community Church’s approach to making disciples. This is an opportunity to look behind the curtains at one of America’s most impactful churches.Some people love everything Andy Stanley does. Others are less impressed (to put it kindly). But here’s the take away: Whatever your gut-level response to Andy Stanley, every church leader in America needs to read this book. I don’t say that because I subscribe to every idea and approach that Stanley describes. Because I don’t. However, Deep & Wide starts a conversation that we so desperately need: “What are we doing to reach the lost?” If you’re in church leadership, I hope and pray that this question keeps you up at night. And Stanley’s book, even if you don’t like all of his answers, will begin a conversation that helps you become more intentional about your approach to reaching the lost – whether or not your approach looks anything like North Point's.