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| Books By Edward H. Hammett |
| Making Shifts without Making Waves:
A Coach Approach to Soulful Leadership
By Edward H. Hammett and James Randy Pierce with Steve DeVane
In an age of storms created by fast-paced lives, an unpredictable economy, population diversity, family life, and church/denominational challenges, leaders and organizations are needing new skills and strategies to deal with these changes.
Making Shifts without Making Waves addresses the fears and aimlessness many organizations and leaders face when dealing with transition and change.
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| Reaching People Under 40 While Keeping People Over 60:
Being Church for All Generations
By: Edward H. Hammett
(TCP Leadership Series)
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We live and minister in a day when people are living longer, marrying later, and living lives and relationships that are atypical for many who grew up before 1960. The church now has the responsibility and opportunity to reach from 5 to 7 generations that are alive today and in many communities. With this great opportunity comes greater challenge. Each generation thinks differently, learns differently and has various personal preferences when it comes to worship styles, music preferences and ways of being and doing church in the 21st century world. How do churches effectively meet the needs of such a wide variety of persons, families and affinity groups?
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| The Gospel According to Starbucks®
By: Leonard Sweet and Edward H. Hammett
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You don’t stand in line at Starbucks® just to buy a cup of coffee. You stop for the experience surrounding the cup of coffee.
Too many of us line up for God out of duty or guilt. We completely miss the warmth and richness of the experience of living with God. If we’d learn to see what God is doing on earth, we could participate fully in the irresistible life that he offers.
You can learn to pay attention like never before, to identify where God is already in business right in your neighborhood. The doors are open and the coffee is brewing. God is serving the refreshing antidote to the unsatisfying, arms-length spiritual life–and he won’t even make you stand in line.
Let Leonard Sweet show you how the passion that Starbucks® has for creating an irresistible experience can connect you with God’s stirring introduction to the experience of faith. |
| Spiritual Leadership in a Secular Age By: Edward H. Hammett
(TCP Leadership Series)
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"Eddie Hammet is one of the best coaches I know. I'm not surprised that this book is filled with excellent "coaching questions" and helpful evaluation tools. What makes his questions even more valuable is they are couched within his excellent comparisons of the church culture and the secular, postmodern culture. This is a book I'm going to keep on my desk ."
-Bill Easum
"Eddie Hammett has done a superb job of delineating the chasm between the culture of most established Protestant congregations and the secular, postmodern, post-Christian culture that reflects the emerging young adult generation. Then he offers clear counsel as to how congregational leaders can negotiate the transition. Eddie draws on years of rich personal experience in dealing with these issues. He also offers a wealth of resources…books, videos, Web sites, etc. This is a wonderful manual for congregational leaders who are motivated to be changed and to lead change."
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| Reframing Spiritual Formation
Discipleship in an Unchurched Culture
By: Edward H. Hammett
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"Reframing Spiritual Formation" takes seriously the realities of an increasingly secular, pluralistic and spiritually thirsty population base most churches face with fear, yet are called to reach and disciple. Hammett provides succinct overviews of the challenges and opportunities these realities bring to the doors of churches and their leaders. His primary focus is on facilitative questions and practical ideas for discipling the churched and the unchurched who are seeking grounding and meaning in this rapidly changing world. |
| The Gathered and Scattered Church
Equipping Believers in the 21st Century
By: Edward H. Hammett
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Secularization is at the threshold of every church because it is in most Christian households. There is more to Christianity than attending church and serving on church committees. In a secular age, ministry by Christians in the daily world is as significant as their ministry inside the church walls.
Hammett takes seriously the issue that we are now living and serving in a secular culture. The message of Christ can penetrate the world when Christians learn to be and do church, both inside and outside the walls of the church. He offers suggestions about understanding, activating, and evaluating the church and how we can equip believers for effective ministry in the 21st century.
--Findley B.Edge
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| Making the Church Work
Converting the Church for the 21st Century
By Edward H. Hammett
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In the first edition of "Making the Church Work," Hammett wrote that the church is not only in need of change, but also in need of a conversion. Now his conviction is stronger than ever. In this second edition, he addresses the issues of changing value -values about what leaders and their congregations are doing as a church and the effectiveness of their techniques. Hammett is convinced that until church leaders change their values healthy, relevant, and effective churches are not like to appear.
Unique features of this book include:
- Overview of trends and issues impacting the church's ineffectiveness
- Opportunities for individual readers, small groups, and congregations to reflect on their journey, in light of these trends and issues
- Practical guidance for addressing problems and for equipping the church for more effective ministry in the 21st century.
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