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 Book: Creating a Secure Church: BOOK TWO

Chapters:

  

Part 1 : Objectives & Obstacles

Preface

1. A Need for Today

2. History & Ministry

Part 2 : Secure in Relationships

3. Strange People!

4. Imperfect People!

5. Togetherness & Unity

6. Secure enough to Confess

7. Secure in Team

8. Strategies for Relationships

Part 3 : Secure in Ministry

9. Secure in Change - through Mentoring

10. Secure in Ministry - with Preaching

11. Secure in Ministry - with Gifts of the Spirit  

12. A Light to the World

Part 4 : When Things go Wrong

  

13. Secure in Correction - Theory    

14. Secure in Correction - Practice    

15. Disagreeing Gracefully

16. Secure after Conflict

17. Thinking about Forgiveness

       

Part 5 : Concluding Thoughts

    

18. What sort of Church?

 

Preface

Welcome Again

           If you have read the preface of Book One you will have seen how these books came into being and my thanks again to those who have made me what I am.

 

And so to the book

     Church isn't always what we'd like it to be.  Why?  Because church is people; redeemed people, yes, but still with God working on their lives!  Which means we're still imperfect and therefore we get things wrong, so sometimes church us messy!

      That's what this book is all about - a wonderful God working with less than wonderful people!  How do you cope with some of the people who call themselves Christians?  How do we cope when it all goes nastily wrong?  How can we try to reduce the number of times that things go wrong?

    Yes, that's why I've written this second book, because church isn't about being on your own, it's about relating to others who call themselves Christians, people who have still a long way to go before they get to heaven - they're on the way but the path is bumpy?

    I hope you can cope with some of the things this book suggests. If you do, it'll be a better church!

                                                                                                    

                                                                              Tony Thomas

                                                                                 July 2004

 

 

      

 

   

Preface

      

Welcome Again

           If you have read the preface of Book One you will have seen how these books came into being and my thanks again to those who have made me what I am.

 

And so to the book

     Church isn't always what we'd like it to be.  Why?  Because church is people; redeemed people, yes, but still with God working on their lives!  Which means we're still imperfect and therefore we get things wrong, so sometimes church us messy!

      That's what this book is all about - a wonderful God working with less than wonderful people!  How do you cope with some of the people who call themselves Christians?  How do we cope when it all goes nastily wrong?  How can we try to reduce the number of times that things go wrong?

    Yes, that's why I've written this second book, because church isn't about being on your own, it's about relating to others who call themselves Christians, people who have still a long way to go before they get to heaven - they're on the way but the path is bumpy?

    I hope you can cope with some of the things this book suggests. If you do, it'll be a better church!

                                                                                                    

                                                                                                  Tony Thomas

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   July 2004

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