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Coming Church Revolution, The: Empowering Leaders for the Future Paperback – July 1, 1994

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Church growth leader Carl F. George shows how meta-church renewal empowers people for worship and ministry.
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Revell; 36646th edition (July 1, 1994)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 350 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0800755286
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0800755287
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  1. Warren Bird

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    Warren Bird, Ph.D., is Senior Vice President of Research and Equipping at ECFA.org (Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability). Previously he was Research Director at Leadership Network.

    He's an award-winning author/co-author of 34 books for pastors, church leaders, church boards, and seminary professors. Bird researches cutting-edge churches and works with their leaders to multiply their evangelistic and disciple-making impact.

    He is widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading researchers of growing churches, megachurches, multisite churches, large church compensation and high-visibility pastoral succession. He also oversees the world’s only active, sortable list of global megachurches at leadnet.org/world. Follow him on Twitter @warrenbird, and Linkedin at wbird.

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    Carl George left pastoring a congregation in Florida to lead the Charles E Fuller Institute in Pasadena, CA. Working in partnership with Church Growth authors and leaders like C. Peter Wagner, John Wimber, Rick Warren, Bill Hybels, John Maxwell, Bob Logan and others, he helped train a generation of leaders in what has become the megachurch era. Just as the Fuller Institute's seminar ministry was launched, Carl had a life-changing bout with cancer. While recovering from surgery, and with the clarity provided by the uncertainty that exists before the matter of survival is confirmed, he aggressively extracted insights from the largest churches in the world and created ways to share those findings with pastors in the English speaking world.

    His writings deal with envisioning growth, leading organizations, discovering and overcoming barriers, and partnering with lay leaders to create effective, caring small groups.

    He resides in Greenville, SC, travelling as necessary to provide the diagnosis, planning and coaching support his clients request.

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Cascais Bassist
5.0 out of 5 stars one of the smartest persons i know
Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2014
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I met with him and spoke for two hours and I am convinced that his approach and others who have mirrored similar approaches have the most balanced and thorough idea in the area of genuine church growth. Tony Guasco
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Randy
5.0 out of 5 stars A great book for North American Pastors and Leaders
Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2004
If you Pastor a church or serve on a staff in North America don't go to another seminar or buy another audio tape or video or talk to another consultant on church growth until you read this book. I have read dozens of books on the subject of Church growth and small/cell groups and have never found anything better than Carl Georges insight into the "MetaChurch" concept.
Let me be clear that Carl does not give you a 7 step plan to church growth. It is not that easy, we can not treat the bride of Christ that simply. It is difficult and every church is unique and special. Carl lays the foundation for you to think through and seek the Divine Direction that the Father has for your Church.
The Meta concept can get complicated and it will make you rethink how church works. It will lead you to view the church for what it is , a network of loving caring relationships with a vision to change our world for Christ sake. I have read this book several times. So many I have lost count but each time is necessary for me to help my church reach it's potential.
Let me also warn you if you do not handle the subject of small/cell groups correctly it could cost you your job as a minister. So don't read this alone. Read it and share it, share the Vision God has given you. Let Him birth it in the hearts that you lead. This book is a great part of God breathing new life in the established church.
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Vincent Klug
5.0 out of 5 stars Decades Ahead of its time
Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2012
Carl George is in more than the church growth business. Carl George can interpret the weaknesses of a huge church and offers a articulate, researched methodology that is strategic, relational and biblical. He deliberately extinguishes pastor-driven ministry. He realizes that Jesus' method for disciple making is the only method.
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John Stevenson
4.0 out of 5 stars Catching the Wind of the Spirit
Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2006
Carl George is in the church growth business. His book perhaps could be entitled "Building Bigger Churches." The key to this approach is the Meta-Church, a method of looking at the church as transitioning into relationship of which small inter-personal cell groups are a necessary part. These cell groups are a deliberate abandonment from pastor-driven ministry to smaller lay-led groups that develop their own leaders. It is pointed out that people who can tolerate three years of full-time classroom theological education tend not to be very achievement oriented in terms of developing those who build community (Page 124). Therefore homegrown leadership developed in the context of ministry is to be preferred.

This is a sales manual for the Meta-Church concept. Like any good advertising, the "buyer" is treated to both to all of the reasons why Meta-Church thinking is necessary, but to the testimonials of many satisfied customers in the form of successful churches throughout the world who have utilized this model.

In the first chapter we read that "what counts is where the wind of the Spirit is blowing and whether I catch that in my soul" (Page 15). It seems evident that the wind of the Spirit is indeed blowing in the direction of the Meta-Church. At the same time, it might be argued that these techniques make the Spirit unnecessary. As long as people are cared for in small cell groups, the techniques will work quite adequately apart from the need to determine where the Spirit might be blowing. However this need not be a dissuading factor in utilizing the principles set forth in this book. Merely because Biblical principles are equally effective in the secular world is no reason to reject them.

I was particularly moved by the importance of training leaders and, although I have been doing this for many years, was motivated by this reading to accelerate that practice in my own ministry by deliberately decreasing the amount of congregational teaching that I presently do and allowing those whom I am training to take more leadership in those areas.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2019
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