by Aubrey, Malphurs
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First published in 1999, Advanced Strategic Planning explained why planning was so important to carrying out the church's mission. Now in its second edition, this practical resource offers - a nine-step strategic thinking and acting model - useful ideas for developing a strategy - diagrams to help illustrate concepts - a new chapter on spiritual formation This updated edition places a stronger emphasis on disciplemaking and clarifies answers to nine fundamental ministry questions. The methods in this book are proven to work, having already helped many churches articulate their vision and implement their mission.
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 Advanced Strategic Planning book review, 2008-12-27
I have to admit I did not purchase Malphurs book because the title grabbed me or I was enthralled by the subject matter. This was part of a group assignment with a growth team of other pastors. However, I only wish I had read this book twenty years earlier. This is a tremendous aid for pastors and churches. I would highly recommend each pastor, staff member and ministry team leader or committee chairperson reading a copy. I believe it would help churches refocus or perhaps really focus for the first time on their purpose and how to sustain continual progress, maturity and growth.
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 Practical Help for Casting a Vision, 2008-10-19
Aubrey Malphurs' book Advanced Strategic Planning (already in its second edition) offers sound, practical advice to pastors seeking to chart out a strategic plan for healthy growth. As professor of pastoral ministries at Dallas Theological Seminary, Malphurs has experience teaching pastors to think strategically, and this book serves as a textbook for students who want to avoid the plateaus and valleys of church life. Malphurs is also the president of a consulting organization that helps identify weaknesses in churches and pushes them to implement changes that might help them grow again.
There is much to be commended in Malphurs' book. He recommends the adoption of mission and vision statements for churches. He helps churches discover their core values. He understands that churches will look different in varying contexts. He communicates the value of professionalism and excellence in ministry undertakings. He offers helpful instruction for evaluating the ministry, and he affirms the necessity of church discipline.
Malphurs' book is very practical. Malphurs does not seek to back up every practice he condones with biblical support. He is clearly pragmatic at times in areas he believes the Bible does not specify a certain procedure. One glaring exception is his advice to avoid putting older men and women on leadership teams or committees. How that follows Paul's advice to have the older mentoring the younger is beyond me! But aside from that, Malphurs does offer good, helpful principles for thinking strategically in churches today.
I recommend that pastors take Malphurs' book, glean insight from his experience, and begin moving their churches forward with a strong sense of God-given direction.
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Practical Strategic Planning, 2008-04-09
Malphurs guides the novice or the pro toward a more clear and practical understanding of Strategic Planning with this "how to" guide. Designed as an overview of Strategic Planning, Malphurs leads a church leadership team through the steps. Although our church board did not benefit much from the "nuts and bolts" of room set-up and brainstorming techniques, we found Malphurs step-by-step guide of values, mission, and vision to be just what the Holy Spirit has been guiding us to consider. This resource has been most helpful alongside of our own study in God's Holy Scriptures concerning the focus and work of the local church.
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Great book that puts strategic planning all together!, 2008-04-01
Malphur's book is great - it puts everything together: values, mission, vision, finance, staffing, goals & objectives, evaluation. One could follow his book chapter by chapter and develop a strategic plan that can serve as the foundation for a focused, growing ministry.
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Nuts and Bolts of the Ministry, 2007-04-10
This volume offers the basics of the Christian ministry. You would learn the basics of how to do ministry, but you must be critical in your reading. I used this volume for a seminary class.
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