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Books for When You Are Leading a Church Community x Growth

21 books sit in the overlap between Books for When You Are Leading A Church Community and Growth.

21 shared books7 shared top picks41% top-pick overlap100% reader overlap
Growing Young coverTransforming Discipleship coverAND coverWhy Nobody Wants to Go to Church Anymore coverBarefoot Church coverThe Church As Movement coverFaithful Presence coverExponential cover
Church GrowthChurch LeadershipEcclesiologyChristian

Shared Shelf

These are the books that appear on both source lists. This is the literal overlap, not a synthetic summary.

  1. Growing Young

    1. Growing Young

    Kara Powell, Jake Mulder
    Appears #1 on Books for When You Are Leading A Church Community and #7 on Growth. Shared themes: Church Growth and Church Leadership.
  2. Transforming Discipleship

    2. Transforming Discipleship

    Greg Ogden
    Appears #7 on Books for When You Are Leading A Church Community and #2 on Growth. Shared themes: Church Growth and Church Leadership.
  3. AND

    3. AND

    Hugh Halter, Matt Smay
    Appears #11 on Books for When You Are Leading A Church Community and #1 on Growth. Shared themes: Church Growth and Church Leadership.
  4. Why Nobody Wants to Go to Church Anymore

    4. Why Nobody Wants to Go to Church Anymore

    Thom Schultz, Joani Schultz
    Appears #8 on Books for When You Are Leading A Church Community and #6 on Growth. Shared themes: Church Growth and Church Leadership.
  5. Barefoot Church

    5. Barefoot Church

    Brandon Hatmaker, Adam Black
    Appears #4 on Books for When You Are Leading A Church Community and #11 on Growth. Shared themes: Church Growth and Church Leadership.
  6. The Church As Movement

    6. The Church As Movement

    JR Woodward, Dan White Jr.
    Appears #2 on Books for When You Are Leading A Church Community and #15 on Growth. Shared themes: Church Growth and Church Leadership.
  7. Faithful Presence

    7. Faithful Presence

    David E. Fitch
    Appears #13 on Books for When You Are Leading A Church Community and #5 on Growth. Shared themes: Church Growth and Church Leadership.
  8. Exponential

    8. Exponential

    Dave Ferguson, Jon Ferguson
    Appears #10 on Books for When You Are Leading A Church Community and #9 on Growth. Shared themes: Church Growth and Church Leadership.
  9. Shrink

    9. Shrink

    Tim Suttle, Scot McKnight
    Appears #16 on Books for When You Are Leading A Church Community and #3 on Growth. Shared themes: Church Growth and Church Leadership.
  10. Who Stole My Church

    10. Who Stole My Church

    Gordon MacDonald
    Appears #5 on Books for When You Are Leading A Church Community and #18 on Growth. Shared themes: Church Growth and Church Leadership.
  11. I Am a Church Member

    11. I Am a Church Member

    Thom S. Rainer
    Appears #6 on Books for When You Are Leading A Church Community and #17 on Growth. Shared themes: Church Growth and Church Leadership.
  12. Sticky Church

    12. Sticky Church

    Larry Osborne
    Appears #12 on Books for When You Are Leading A Church Community and #12 on Growth. Shared themes: Church Growth and Church Leadership.
  13. Autopsy of a Deceased Church

    13. Autopsy of a Deceased Church

    Thom S. Rainer
    Appears #3 on Books for When You Are Leading A Church Community and #22 on Growth. Shared themes: Church Growth and Church Leadership.
  14. No Perfect People Allowed

    14. No Perfect People Allowed

    John Burke, Tom Casaletto
    Appears #9 on Books for When You Are Leading A Church Community and #23 on Growth. Shared themes: Church Growth and Church Leadership.
  15. Confessions of a Reformission Rev.

    15. Confessions of a Reformission Rev.

    Mark Driscoll
    Appears #23 on Books for When You Are Leading A Church Community and #13 on Growth. Shared themes: Church Growth and Church Leadership.
  16. The Living Church

    16. The Living Church

    John Stott, John R.W. Stott
    Appears #19 on Books for When You Are Leading A Church Community and #19 on Growth. Shared themes: Church Growth and Church Leadership.
  17. Revitalize

    17. Revitalize

    Andrew M. Davis, Mark Dever
    Appears #14 on Books for When You Are Leading A Church Community and #29 on Growth. Shared themes: Church Growth and Church Leadership.
  18. The Emerging Church

    18. The Emerging Church

    Dan Kimball, Rick Warren
    Appears #24 on Books for When You Are Leading A Church Community and #24 on Growth. Shared themes: Church Growth and Church Leadership.
  19. Purpose Driven Youth Ministry

    19. Purpose Driven Youth Ministry

    Doug Fields, Rick Warren
    Appears #32 on Books for When You Are Leading A Church Community and #16 on Growth. Shared themes: Church Growth and Church Leadership.
  20. The Purpose Driven Church

    20. The Purpose Driven Church

    Rick Warren
    Appears #27 on Books for When You Are Leading A Church Community and #26 on Growth. Shared themes: Church Growth and Church Leadership.
  21. Word-filled Women's Ministry

    21. Word-filled Women's Ministry

    Gloria Furman, Kathleen Nielson
    Appears #43 on Books for When You Are Leading A Church Community and #28 on Growth. Shared themes: Church Growth and Church Leadership.

Source Lists

These are the two public lists the crossover comes from.

Deep Dives

Growth Books

29 picks

Growth books gathered from the deep dives shelf as a focused reading list.

Crossover Essay

A longer editorial argument for why these two lists belong together.

Why Books for When You Are Leading A Church Community and Growth Belong on the Same Shelf builds the longer argument from the same two source lists and the same shared shelf.