TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schaller,Lyle E
TI  - Create your own future! /Lyle E. Schaller
AV  - BV652 .C743 1991
PY  - 1991///
CY  - Nashville, Tennessee
PB  - Abingdon Press
KW  - Church management
KW  - Church growth
N1  - 1 (pages 153-144); 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; 2
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