Recommended Reading
Recommended Reading for Church Leaders:
- Organic Outreach for Ordinary People: Sharing Good News Naturally, Kevin Harney
- I Dare You to Change, Bil Cornelius
- I Became a Christian and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Replacing Souvenir Religion with Authentic Spiritual Passion, Vince Antonucci
- To Transform a City: Whole Church, Whole Gospel, Whole City, Sam Williams
- Essential Church? Reclaiming a Generation of Dropouts
- Lost and Found: The Younger Unchurched and the Churches that Reach Them, Ed Stetzer
- ReChurch, Stephen Mansfield
- Why Men Hate Going to Church, David Murrow
- The American Church in Crisis: Groundbreaking Research Based on a National Database of over 200,000 Churches, David Olson
- Finding a Church You Can Love and Loving the Church You've Found, Kevin & Sherry Harney
- Fusion: Turning First-Time Guests into Fully Engaged Members of Your Church, Nelson Searcy
- Quitting Church: Why the Faithful are Fleeing and What to Do about It, Julia Duin
- Sticky Church, Larry Osborne
- The Churched and the De-Churched, Mary Tuomi Hammond
- unChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity... and Why It Matters, David Kinnaman & Gabe Lyons
- Grow Your Church From the Outside In, George Barna.
- Re-Churching The Unchurched, George Barna.
- Jim & Casper Go To Church, Jim Henderson and Matt Casper.
Recommended Reading for a Person Seeking to Come Back to Church:
- Finding a Church You Can Love, and Loving the One You’re In, Kevin & Sherry Harney
- Giving Church Another Chance, Todd D. Hunter
- Ten: Living the Ten Commandments in the 21st Century, JJohn
- The Case for Christ, Lee Strobel
- Godology, Christian George
- Assaulted by Joy: The Redemption of a Cynic Stephen W. Simpson, Ph.D.
- They Like Jesus, Not the Church, Dan Kimball
- So You Don't Want to Go to Church Anymore, Jake Colsen, Wayne Jacobsen, Dave Coleman
- The Purpose Driven Life, Rick Warren
- Knowing God, J.I. Packer
- A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society, Eugene Peterson
- Welcome to College: A Christ-Follower's Guide for the Journey, Jonathan Murrow
- The Pursuit of God, A. W. Tozer
- Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality, Donald Miller
- Prayer: Finding the Heart's True Home, Richard Foster
- Why Men Hate Going to Church, Dave Murrow
- Confessions of a Pastor, Craig Groeschel
- Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis
- The God Questions, Hal Seed
- You Were Made for More, Jim Cymbala
- The Life: A Portrait of Jesus, J. John
- Rediscovering Church, Bill & Lynne Hybels
- Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World, Henri J. M. Nouwen
- Dangerous Surrender: What Happens When You Say Yes to God, Kay Warren
- The Normal Christian Life, Watchman Nee
- A Beautiful Offering: Returning God's Love with Your Life, Angela Thomas
- Seeking Him: Experiencing the Joy of Personal Revival, Nancy Leigh DeMoss, Tim Grissom
- Experiencing the Heart of Jesus: Knowing His Heart, Feeling His Love, Max Lucado
