The Purpose Driven Church <subTitle>Growth without Compromising your Message Mission</subTitle> </titleInfo> <titleInfo> <title/> </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Warren, Rick</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <namePart type="date">(1954-...)</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">1:5</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">Michigan, U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>Zondervan Pub</publisher> <dateIssued>1995</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">0 e</languageTerm> </language> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">ng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>399tr.</extent> <extent>Paperback</extent> <extent>25 cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>`The Purpose-Driven(r) Church has brought focus and direction to more pastors and church leaders than you can count. What a gift!`--John Ortberg, bestselling author Every church is driven by something. Tradition, finances, programs, personalities, events, seekers, and even buildings can each be the controlling force in a church. But Rick Warren believes that in order for a church to be healthy it must become a purpose-driven church, built around the five New Testament purposes given to the church by Jesus. `The issue is church health, not church growth!` declares Warren. `If your church is healthy, growth will occur naturally. Healthy, consistent growth is the result of balancing the five biblical purposes of the church.` Rick Warren shares a proven five-part strategy that will enable your church to grow warmer through fellowship, deeper through discipleship, stronger through worship, broader through ministry, larger through evangelism. The Purpose-Driven(r) Church shifts the focus away from church building programs to emphasizing a people-building process. Warren says, `If you will concentrate on building people, God will build the church.`</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">Rick Warren</note> <subject> <topic>Evangelistic work</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Church growth</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Church work</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">253</classification> <classification authority="ddc">W286-R54</classification> <identifier type="isbn">0310208130</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/ImageCover/2022/5/4/2375.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/ImageCover/2022/5/4/2375.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordContentSource authority="marcorg">1</recordContentSource> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2022-0</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119070629.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>