Resources

As resources are created they will be made available in the dropdown menu above.

Some resources will be links to other external sites such as the Diocesan Safeguarding Policy and YouTube.

You are welcome to use the resources that are created and placed in the download section.

Useful websites

https://www.leadingyourchurchintogrowth.org.uk/

Reading List

The following is a partial list of books found useful and challenging when thinking about communicating concepts of faith and preparing to design programmes. This is a mix of theology, practical ministerial advice and scientific research into human psychology, the sense of the numinous and the origins of morality.

Thinking about 'being and doing Church'.

The Other Half of Church: Christian Community, Brain Science, and Overcoming Spiritual Stagnation
By: Jim Wilder , Michel Hendricks (2020)

Future Church: 7 Laws of Real Church Growth
By: Will Mancini , Cory Hartman (2020)

The Honest Guide to Church Planting: What No One Ever Tells You About Planting and Leading a New Church
By: Tom Bennardo (2019)

Why Men Hate Going to Church
By Erik Synnestvedt (2004)

Why people behave the way they do.

The Self Illusion: Why There Is No "You" Inside Your Head
By: Bruce Hood (2013)

Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
By: Robert Wright (1995)

Other stuff.

The Jewish Gospel of John: Discovering Jesus, King of All Israel
By:Eli Lizorkin-Eyzenberg (2015)