• Church leadership: structures; leadership roles, tasks, qualifications and styles; authority; and identifying and training new leaders.
• Church activities: teaching; preaching; prayer; baptism; the Lord's Supper; worship; spiritual gifts; music; small groups; evangelism in a post-modern world; church-based evangelism; serving the community; world mission; and commendation for service.
• Church management: membership; discipline; vision building; handling differences; handling growth; reversing decline; knowing when to close; planting a new church; and inter-church activities.
• Pastoral matters: encouraging godly living; general principles of pastoral care (PC); PC of men; PC of women; PC of young people; PC of children; PC of leaders and wives; PC of older people; home visiting; PC of ill and dying; the funeral service; bereavement counselling; depression; marriage preparation; the marriage service; marriage enrichment; divorce and remarriage; homosexuality; wealth, poverty and debt; addiction.
• Legal, Financial and Practical: trusts and trusteeship; church accounts; premises; and social care legislation.

Fishers of Men (2003): Pauline Summerton objectively recounts and assesses the work of Walter and Anna Fisher, and their descendants, in north-west Zambia.

Jake - just learn to worship (2003): Terry Young reflects on the life of Jacob and applies it to his own experience in a unique, immensely lively way.

Earlier titles in print:

A Noble Task: Covers appointment of elders, their tasks including leadership, teaching and pastoral care, the elders as a leadership team, the ministry and leadership of women, and tensions between paid and tentmaking leaders. "This book is full of wisom, and should be required reading for all who are called to positions of leadership in the churches." (Anvil)

Making progress in church life: Jonathan Lamb deploys his wisdom and experience on the subject of managing change in the local church without creating discontent and splits.

Sharing The Good News In C21: Looks at the changes that are taking place in our society and asks the question, how do we reach it with the Gospel? It is full of practical suggestion on how to make the most of our opportunities and how to develop a strategy for evangelism in the local church context.

Must Brethren churches die?: Kevin Dyer looks at the prospects for churches of Brethren background and considers the essential and the action that they need to take.

Buried talents to God given gifts: Henry Ratter considers how to develop and encourage latent gifts in the congregation.

Go tell my brothers: Christian women and church ministry (1995): Cedric Longville's careful Scriptural consideration of traditional interpretations on the silence of women.

Does God expect less of women? (1996): Study guide with seven studies on God's expectations of women.

Don't muzzle the ox (1997): full-time ministry in local churches, packed with practical guidance as well consideration of Biblical principles.

A guide to God's family (2000): Stephen McQuoid looks very practically at the issue of individual involvement in the life of the local church.

Ten changing churches (1999): Accounts of change in ten churches in recent years, with reflections on what worked and what did not work.

Declare his glory: congregational worship today (1998) considers church worship in a comprehensive way, from Biblical principle to practical application both generally and at particular events.

All the above are obtainable (until out of print) through Paternoster Publishing, PO Box 300, Kinston Broadway, Carlisle, Cumbria. CA3 0QS U.K. Prices and other details are given on the Paternoster Publishing website.

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