Making Progress in Church Life

Making Progress in Church Life
By Jonathan Lamb
40 pages. £1.95
ISBN 0 90012 817 8

Jonathan Lamb will be known to many as the European Secretary of IFES and Chairman of the Keswick Convention. Before that he was an elder of Belmont Chapel, Exeter.
This booklet on managing change stems from practical experience distilled in previous talks and seminars.
It is well organised and lucid. It deals with problems from spiritual, scriptural and organisational points of view and charts the priorities and interconnections between those strands. By his references he points to other helpful sources.
Although written from a Brethren background, the principles are universal. This is a useful booklet, and could well be a help for all members of a church committee (of any denomination) to read before facing any programme of change.
If read carefully, it is plain that the underlying principles are those of a conservative adherence to the authority of Scripture. My only fear is that some reading it superficially might, if they are not in sympathy with the basic presuppositions of the author, regard it as merely another business management guide for ministers.

John Marsh

© Evangelicals Now - May 1998
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Main Articles

• Churches and the Disability Discrimination Act 1995
  The provision of facilities in church buildings for disabled people
• A still small voice about sex
  An account of one parent's action at a preview of a new school course in sexuality
• Mad for it in Manchester
  An interview with Andy Hawthorne of The World Wide Message Tribe about evangelistic outreach among teenagers in Manchester
• After God's funeral
  Extracts from a talk given by Ravi Zacharias on the problem of moral relativism which follows atheism
• Why DO we go to church?
  The meaning of worship in the Old Testament and New Testament and its implications for our Sunday services
• By faith - the life of George Muller remembered
  An account of the life of George Muller the great Brethren philanthropist
• Eastern orthodoxy
  A brief history of the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Orthodox church in Britain and evangelical witness to Greeks in London
• How are we to learn? (Bulldog for May)
  Ten points concerning teaching and preaching in the church with reference to the New Testament

Other articles

• News of the Hour (Marks Gospel)
• Gattaca
• IVP New Testament Commentary Series - Matthew
• Making Progress in Church Life
• Desert Child - or just how amusing can a nightmare be?
• Picking Up The Pieces - can evangelicals adapt to contemporary culture?
• Farm Sermons
• True Happiness - Exposition of Psalm 1
• Promise Keepers - and the rising tide of ecumenism
• The End of Science - Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age
• A Guide to the Puritans
• Pathway Through Grief - Ten accounts of people's experience following bereavement reviewed by Carol Gulliford and Barbara Morland
• At Break of Day
• Our Awesome God