Create your own future! /Lyle E. Schaller.
- Nashville, Tennessee : Abingdon Press, (c)1991.
- 159 pages ; 22 cm.
Where and how do we intervene? : Three predictable patterns -- Why not the board? -- Potential points of intervention -- What are the choices? -- Why? -- Summary -- Creating that committee : Participation or performance? -- Informed or uninformed discussions? -- Who should not be on it? -- Avoid self-defeating behavior! -- Who do you want? -- Why not a representative committee? -- Who chooses them? -- The Greatest danger -- What are reasonable expectations? : Grand design or single issue? -- Incremental change or magic bullet? -- Exceptions and fringe benefits Choosing a beginning point : Six common beginning points -- The healthy congregation -- Counting is a prerequisite to planning -- What is our niche? -- Two beginning points for growth -- Reversing the decline in the large Church -- Looking at entry points -- What can happen? -- The Quest for quality : Age or generation? -- What is acceptable today? -- Reading the election returns : Can this be a useful beginning point? -- Carving out a niche : The Importance of that third place -- To do or to be? -- Eight influential changes -- What does this mean? -- Seven altenatives -- What is our niche? -- What are the possibilites? What does it cost to go to church? : Measuring unit costs -- Where does it go? -- Another potential beginning point -- Up or down? -- What are the variables? -- Tradition or market? : A useful beginning point -- That market-driven minority -- Two questionss for your committee -- No surprises! : What are assumptions? -- To study or to act? : Five choices -- The Best choice -- Implementing the plan : What happens next? -- What did they do? -- The Influence of momentum -- Overcoming resistance.