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Most church leaders are passionate about their calling to “go and make disciples.” However, despite their most creative thinking, diligent efforts and rigorous assessments, year after year they arrive at the end of a ministry season with no way of knowing for sure whether they have succeeded or failed in their calling. “I want to serve God,” the refrain goes, “and on most days, I believe I’m doing what I’m called to do. But what if my approach is off-track? What if the work we’re doing as a church doesn’t really help people grow at all?” The only indicators of success most leaders have are numbers. Is attendance up? Are giving trends on the rise? Are we baptizing more people this year than last? Numbers are helpful, but they still come up short. Numbers may tell leaders how active their congregants are, but they reveal very little about whether or not anyone’s heart is changing as a result. Leaders need more than numbers to help them assess their efforts and make strategic ministry decisions. The crux of spiritual growth is not how busy people are with spiritual activities but how engaged they are with Christ. How close is a person to Christ? Are they fully surrendered to his will and his teaching? Do they prioritize faith in their daily lives? Are they growing in their love of God and others? In order to answer these questions, leaders need more than numbers; they need to see inside people’s hearts.In 2004, Willow Creek Community Church completed research that would eventually become the REVEAL Spiritual Life Survey. Based on those initial findings, as well as data from more than 150,000 congregants in 500 churches, the REVEAL team discovered a way to see inside the hearts and minds of congregants. The Christ-Centered Heart presents discoveries not from a hypothetical, theoretical or opinion-driven point of view, but from an empirical one. By linking biblical principles with spiritual attitudes and behaviors, REVEAL research The Christ-Centered Heart provides a foundational understanding of this new lens for spiritual growth and presents findings from the latest REVEAL research. Focusing on Jesus’ definition of spiritual growth as increasing love of God and others (Matthew 22:36 – 40), the book draws on compelling stories of real people as well as engaging charts and graphs to illustrate key concepts and insights. It includes four parts: PART ONE: The Heart of the Matter explains the brutal truth about spiritual growth and an orientation on how REVEAL takes us “inside” the hearts of congregants.PART TWO: The Spiritual Continuum identifies the five segments of intimacy with Christ and describes people with “closed hearts,” who are Far from Christ; people with “searching hearts,” who are Exploring Christ; people with “open hearts,” who are Growing in Christ; people with “engaged hearts,” who are Close to Christ; and people with “surrendered hearts,” who are “Christ-Centered.”PART THREE: Spiritual Movement details the distinct spiritual catalysts that move people toward increasing intimacy with Christ. This includes four spiritual movements: from rejection to searching for Christ; from searching to accepting Christ; from growing in Christ to becoming close to him; and from close to Christ to becoming Christ-centered. We name two primary barriers to spiritual growth—becoming “stalled” along the journey toward intimacy with Christ, and becoming “dissatisfied” with the church’s ability to lead people there.PART FOUR: Spiritual Leadership presents five key findings based on REVEAL’s proprietary “Spiritual Vitality Index,” which ranks a church’s effectiveness in helping people grow. The findings explain the importance of getting people moving once they express interest in knowing Christ; embedding the Bible in everything the church does; creating ownership on the part of the Christ-follower; pastoring the local community rather than merely “doing ministry” inside the church’s four walls; and re-establishing

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Greg L. Hawkins is executive pastor of Willow Creek Community Church. He is also co-creator of REVEAL, an initiative that utilizes research tools and discoveries to help churches better understand spiritual growth in their congregations. Greg and his wife, Lynn, live in the Chicago suburbs with their three children.

Cally Parkinson is brand manager for REVEAL and previously served as the director of communication services at Willow Creek Community Church, a role she undertook following a twenty-five-year career at Allstate Insurance Company. Cally and her husband, Rich, live in the Chicago suburbs and have two grown children. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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Publication Date : August 12, 2011
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Publisher : Zondervan (August 12, 2011)
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ASIN : B004DCAV96
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John Gibbs

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Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2011

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It may be impossible for us to tell the secrets of people's hearts, but it really is possible to know whether the people in church congregations are truly growing more in love with God and extending that love to other people, according to Greg Hawkins and Cally Parkinson in this book. The book describes findings from surveys which probe much more deeply than the typical "number of attenders", "number of baptisms", and "number of participants in small groups" figures which are traditionally used to gauge the health of churches.

The "Reveal" surveys used by the authors measure the state of respondents' spiritual growth by asking questions relating to spiritual beliefs, attitudes, motivations, behaviours and satisfaction. Based on their responses, the respondents from each church can be divided into four groups: Exploring Christ, Growing in Christ, Close to Christ, and Christ-Centred. Some 250,000 people from more than 1,000 churches have taken the survey, and the results allow the authors to draw some interesting inferences about the catalysts which move people in their spiritual journeys from one group to the next, and about barriers to growth and how to overcome them, and about what steps church leaders can take to help the spiritual growth process.

I recommend that church leaders get a copy of the book and study carefully the various catalysts of spiritual growth at each stage of the journey. The catalysts for growth from "Exploring Christ" to "Growing in Christ" are different from those for growth from "Growing in Christ" to "Close to Christ", and these are different again from those for growth from "Close to Christ" to "Christ-Centred". Apart from these catalysts, the authors identified some actions taken by churches which had markedly higher-than-average results in the surveys:

* Get people moving, by having a clear pathway for people on their spiritual journeys.
* Embed the Bible in everything the church does.
* Create ownership by inspiring people to adopt the vision of the church as part of their identity.
* Pastor the local community by taking responsibility for addressing local community needs.

Interestingly, the churches with the best results in the surveys ranged in size from small to very large. Some were predominantly white, some predominantly African-American, and some were multicultural. Very few of the pastors of those churches are famous, and most seemed surprised to discover that their churches ranked well above the average for spiritual growth.

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Excellent for lay people in leadership roles

Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2014

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Two thoughts:

Surveys are difficult. Imagine surveying over 250,000 congregants. If you ask each respondent four questions you have in excess of 1,000,000 data points to roll up and explain. The authors do a really effective job with Move. If you work in high tech (sorry, I’m not as familiar with other industries), imagine a very compact, very linear, director to executive PowerPoint presentation. Now, add in just enough words to articulate the bullet points and you get this book.

Honesty is difficult. Imagine you roll up a large amount of survey data and the results don’t align with the core assumptions of your company, or perhaps even your industry. There is a great temptation to massage the messaging before bubbling it up the management chain.

On the very first page of the book's Foreword, the Church Founder and Senior Pastor states: “What they [the authors] discovered challenged some of our core assumptions about our effectiveness as a church.”

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Putting numbers to the Truths we'd like to ignore

Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2012

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The principles outlined in this book bring to light a lot of the things that church leaders would like to ignore. If you and the rest of your church aren't moving toward a Christ-centered life, there's something wrong, and this book may help you overcome what you'd prefer to overlook. This is an excellent tool if used wisely. The authors are very careful to ground its principles in biblical truth, and I recommend you ground your church family in the Bible first and foremost. The catalysts outlined in these pages will help your congregation grow in Christ. I would recommend you use the information in this book as guidance to improve on your own church's discipleship milestones. Don't hammer your congregants with the spiritual continuum chart. Instead, challenge your congregants to get involved in the various catalysts that they need to move from one step to the next. A good teacher doesn't read the textbook verbatim, but becomes a living example of how to it should be done. I'd call this a must-read for church leaders, but don't let the graphs go to your head. Don't start church comparisons unless you're teaching from the seven churches in Revelation.

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Good book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 18, 2014

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For any involved in church leadership this is an insightful and revealing book. Full of helpful research done across many different churches and congregations, its conclusions will assist those who are passionate about seeing those in their churches move closer to Jesus.

Peter Sutcliffe

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 1, 2013

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"Move" is a very informative and useful resource for any pastoral team looking for definition in their church organisation structural processes.

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Nichtlineares Glaubenswachstum

Reviewed in Germany on November 25, 2016

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Ein hilfreiches Buch, wenn man nicht durch eigenes angestrengtes Nachdenken und Befragen von Gottesdienstbesuchern herausfinden will, wie sich die Bedürfnisse und Herausforderungen von Gott-Suchern, Frischbekehrten, Nachfolgern Christi und christuszentriert lebenden Menschen unterscheidet.
Es geht auch um Glaubenswachstum und was deine Kirchengemeinde für die verschiedenen Gruppen tun könnte.
Beim Lesen hatte ich einige Aha Momente und kann das Buch dem interessierten leitenden Laien, Presbyter, Ältesten und natürlich auch Pfarrern empfehlen, denen das Glaubenswachstum der Gemeindeglieder zu wertvoll ist als es dem Zufall zu überlassen.

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Robert Brennan

stunningly great book marred by illegible charts

Reviewed in Australia on April 17, 2014

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This should be a five star review. Why? Because every church leader should read this. The REVEAL research across 1000 churches is solid and tells a consistent tale of where people are spiritually within congregations. I would love to see the results of the next round of research in a few years time which needs to be done to see if the recommendations for getting people to move on in spiritual growth actually work. Or which ones do. Having said that there are a number of factors for bring about change and growth in people's spiritual walk which do clearly work.

The major criticism and this is MAJOR! Is that all the research is summarized throughout the book in charts. I remember looking at them in the hard copy edition and thinking the lettering style surrounded with a fluorescent glow worked nicely on glossy paper. On both of my kindle devices color and e-ink every single chart WAS TOTALLY AND PAINFULLY ILLEGIBLE. All of the text looked badly out of focus. This would not have been as big a problem if the chart detail were always summarized I the plain text of the book, but it often isn't.

Willow Creek please revise the chart otherwise buy a hard copy.

Andrew Smith

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Reviewed in Canada on July 29, 2013

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I havent completed reading the book, but so far the information has been informative, encourging and insightful. The material is presented in a logical and concise manner which promote retention and ease of understanding.
I would definitely recommend the book to pastors and church leaders who have a burning desire to see their church mobilize as an army for the advancement of the kingdom God.

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