Developing Healthy Churches: Returning to the Heart of Mission and Ministry

by Robert Warren

Developing Healthy Churches is an utterly practical and realistic guide for any leader seeking to revitalize and grow their church. The long-awaited sequel to the bestselling Healthy Churches’ Handbook , this new volume will help you implement tried and tested approaches for healthy church growth in your parish.

Realistic and encouraging, disarmingly honest and grounded in the reality of parish life, it will help you build up your church in several key Whether your church is large or small, well-resourced or struggling, here is an essential resource for revitalizing your life and mission. A study guide is also included, making this ideal as a parish development course.

192 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2012

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

This is NOT Robert Penn Warren.

Reviews

[Derek Winterburn · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a follow up to the highly regarded 'Healthy Churches' Handbook' and as such it aims to be more qualitative and thoughtful. It is certainly a different style of book than Bob Jackson's more evidence-based material. Warren offers a variety of reflections on key parts of the church's life (spirituality, pastoral care, home groups, giving, evangelism and mission). He often asks what is distinctive about the church's way of doing things - and has some interesting things to say. Unlike Jackson there are no graphs and tables, but anonymised anecdotes and quotations. He is pleased to illustrate his points from ancient church practise - which is a reminder that we can learn from those who have gone before, even if they lived in a very different culture. So more a book offering 'food for thought' than a ready to use action plan.