Resource Pack #16

How do I receive a Resource Pack?

We are offering this resource pack to Vanguard members at a cost of $75.00 plus shipping and handling. To order, please call (800) 630-2838. You may charge your purchase to Visa or Master Card or make payment with a personal/business check.

Resources included in this pack:

1. Book: ID: The True You

    by Mark Batterson

Pastor Mark Batterson of National Community Church, (www.theaterchurch.com ) in Washington, D.C wrote this book to underscore a preaching series on the same topic. It focuses on helping people to discover their true identity in Christ. He posits that the more you have going for you, the more potential you have for identity problems—because it’s easier for you to base your identity on the wrong thing. He goes on to explain that all identity problems have the same cause and the same cure. It doesn’t matter whether people go through a quarter-life crisis, midlife crisis, or fourth-quarter crisis. The cause is basing your identity on the wrong thing. The cure is basing less and less of your identity on what you can do and more and more of your identity on what God has done for you.

Pastors and leaders need to apply this truth as much or more than anyone else. Many spiritual leaders struggle with identity issues and need a balanced, biblical perspective. This book will help.

2. Book: The Nomadic Church

    by Bill Easum and Pete Theodore

Since many pastors can relate to the struggles faced by churches which have to move from meeting place to meeting place, The Nomadic Church will speak to you in a practical way. Here’s what people have said about this resource.

" No church planter or planting church can afford to be without this book. In a match made in heaven, Theodore’s fresh, original, primary, deep-digging research is coupled with Easum’s matchless knowledge and lifetime wisdom of church consultation." ~ Leonard Sweet

" The Nomadic Church breathes the missional Spirit of Jesus Christ. Through temporary facilities, contemporary outreach, and extraordinary faith, Easum and Theodore move us back to the future and forward to the past. If you refuse to let missional living be minimized by maintenance, then you need this book…" ~ Greg Kappas, Co-founder; International Church Planters Summit

3. Book: Breakout Churches

    by Thom S. Rainer

What are breakout churches and can your church become one? This is the story of thirteen churches and leaders who moved them from stagnancy to growth and from mediocrity to greatness. Drawing on one of the most comprehensive studies ever on the church, this book reveals the process of becoming a “breakout” church and the factors that lead to this spiritual metamorphosis.

Eighty percent of the approximately 400,000 churches in the United States are either declining or at a plateau. Is there hope for the American church? Breakout Churches offers a resounding “YES!” and offers specific examples and principles to help you and your church become more effective.

4 & 5. Audio CD: Willow Creek Leadership Summit 2005

          Leadership is Stewardship by Rick Warren

          The Leader's State of Mind by Bill Hybels

Leadership is Stewardship – In this resource Rick Warren, challenges leaders to take stock of and submit the gifts that God has given them. He shares about how Moses submitted to God by laying down his staff. In doing so, he laid down his identity, his income and his influence. Warren will inspire you to look differently at laying down your gifts and picking them back up as instruments of the Most High God!

The Leader’s State of Mind – In this valuable resource Bill Hybels challenges leaders to get in touch with their “holy discontentment”. He presents the functions of a leader as casting vision, building teams, leading change, intercepting entropy and developing emerging leaders.