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Gladhearted Disciples: Equipping Your Congregation with Generous and Enduring Faith
Gladhearted Equipping Your Congregation with Generous and Enduring Faith addresses a critical need for church leaders and How can we guide people to live like Jesus and to draw others into that life? This is a book to study and with your leaders and teams.
110 pages, Paperback
First published May 19, 2015
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Chris Folmsbee
28 books3 followersChris Folmsbee is an author, speaker, volunteer youth worker, youth ministry consultant, and the director of Barefoot Ministries, a non-profit youth ministry training and publishing company located in Kansas City.
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March 23, 2018
First of all, if you're UMC, Wesleyan, or just want to better understand and get an idea for a plan to introduce mission, discipleship and spiritual formation, then this is a good book to read. It's definitely going into my year-long worship series on discipleship plan.
That said, it didn't get a full five stars from me for a couple reasons.
1) I understand the need for repetition when you're trying to firmly implant a concept or belief into someone. However, there is repetition and then there is redundancy. There's a LOT of redundancy in this book. That frustrates me as I see it as a waste of space that might have been better used with some jewel that may have been edited out in order to repeat the main concepts.
2) I understand authors like Folmsbee use their own experiences as examples. I get that. Really. But when one constantly talks about their staff of 20 they're supervising and the (apparently constant) need for yet another small group, pastors from truly small churches (under 100 active members, in fact under 70) which is, I believe, the average size of churches in the US, can become discouraged, disillusioned, and even misdirected. It can leave us feeling like we don't stand a chance because we don't have any staff at all. Find a better way to articulate those stories.
That said, it didn't get a full five stars from me for a couple reasons.
1) I understand the need for repetition when you're trying to firmly implant a concept or belief into someone. However, there is repetition and then there is redundancy. There's a LOT of redundancy in this book. That frustrates me as I see it as a waste of space that might have been better used with some jewel that may have been edited out in order to repeat the main concepts.
2) I understand authors like Folmsbee use their own experiences as examples. I get that. Really. But when one constantly talks about their staff of 20 they're supervising and the (apparently constant) need for yet another small group, pastors from truly small churches (under 100 active members, in fact under 70) which is, I believe, the average size of churches in the US, can become discouraged, disillusioned, and even misdirected. It can leave us feeling like we don't stand a chance because we don't have any staff at all. Find a better way to articulate those stories.
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