Ministry and Leadership
Resources that help equip and inform on the nature of Christian leadership and service participating in Christ’s ministry in modern life. All of these are available to freely borrow from our church library.
Center Church: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City
by Timothy Keller
One of the most significant and comprehensive Christian ministry and leadership books in the last century. An absolute essential for Christian leaders, and those seeking to understanding how the church can enter most fully into authentic mission in the modern world.
Reappearing Church: The Hope for Renewal in the Rise of Our Post-Christian Culture
by Mark Sayers
This book explores how a church can move from decline into a process of renewal. It has sociological observations, as well as theological principles, and practical steps for congregations to find a new future.
The Trellis and the Vine: The Ministry Mind-Shift that Changes Everything
by Colin Marshall and Tony Payne
This is a brilliant book explains how congregations can engage every person in ministry, especially in enabling the growth of discipleship in a community.
Dynamics of Spiritual Life: An Evangelical Theology of Renewal
by Richard Lovelace
This significant, profound book takes a deep dive into understanding how spiritual renewal occurs in communities, churches and individual people. This is a classic of how churches enable renewal. Essential for Christian leaders.
Disruptive Witness: Speaking Truth in a Distracted Age
by Alan Noble
This is an insightful book on how to live a genuine authentic life in modern life, the nature of which ‘buffers’ us through distraction, keeping us living on the surface of life, avoiding deep reflection. This book draws on the work of philosopher Charles Taylor, but shows ways that Jesus invites us to live a ‘disruptive’ life.
Introducing the Uniting Church in Australia
by Andrew Dutney
This is a concise introduction to the Uniting Church in Australia, the third largest denomination which formed in 1977 as a union of the Presbyterian, Methodist and Congregational churches. A helpful short guide to its structure and vision.