I Refuse to Lead a Dying Church! [Paperback]

Paul Nixon (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 28, 2007

God has called all leaders--lay and clergy--to lead healthy, GROWING congregations. In this best-selling, highly- readable book, church-growth expert Paul Nixon outlines six critical choices every congregation must make: Life over Death, Community over Isolation, Fun over Drudgery, Bold over Mild, Frontier over Fortress, and Now rather than Later.

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About the Author

Paul Nixon is an ordained United Methodist minster and pastor of new-church-start Epicenter Church in Greater Washington, DC. He recieved his D.Min. from Southern Methodist University.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Pilgrim Press, The (March 28, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 082981759X
• ISBN-13: 978-0829817591
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #69,314 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Challanging and extrememly helpful book, November 15, 2007

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Robert Longbottom "Rev. Rob Longbottom" (Ogdensburg, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I Refuse to Lead a Dying Church! (Paperback)

Paul Nixon's book is a challange to every pastor to be proactive and transformative in their ministry. He pulls no punches and warns that what is needed in our churches to turn them into efective centers of ministry that will challange our current status quo and even create unheavals in the local church. However the time to have gradual change is over and the only thing that will turn a local church around is transforamtional leaders within the parish pushing for life giving, community oriented, fun, bold, frontier ministry today.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent and practical - A must read, May 30, 2008

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Paul Johnson - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I Refuse to Lead a Dying Church! (Paperback)

This is the best ministry book I have read in years. Refreshing and practical insights into what it takes to turn a church around. Written from a pastors view point it hold scads of good information for every church member who wants to see their church thrive. A MUST READ Book
There is more good stuff in these 122 pages than in volumes of "how to" books by 'Mega Church' bestselling authors.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars wow!!!, July 14, 2008

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Bruce Nowacek - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I Refuse to Lead a Dying Church! (Paperback)

As any minister in the United Methodist Church, I am expected to go to a lot of meetings, and inevitably have to fill out a lot of forms. Nixon's book challenges that enitre enterprise and instead focuses our attention on what the truer mission of the Church Universal should be, choosing life over death. Then in a quite provocative manner he proposes 6 options that boldly suugest how to pour new wine into the old wine skin of the aging church, that which like any other institution exists to maintain itself all the while ignoring that is slowly declining into ultimate oblivion. This is a should read book for amyone interested in church growth and spiritual development.