You Can Keep Them If You Care / Cress, James A / (PB/1984-1984/B+/USED)

Condition note: Book is lightly used and clean.

If keeping new members is your problem, here are the answers! Is it really possible to keep new members from dropping out? We pray church growth will happen. We want God's kingdom to expand. "But please, Lord, grow it somewhere else!" New members, like new babies, must be nurtured, trained, equipped, and deployed into service if they are to become true disciples. Building disciples is the work of the local church, and it CANNOT happen somewhere else!

In this serious, but challenging book, you will find both theological imperatives for new member assimilation as well as practical, how-to methods that work in the crucible of real life. This is a book that every pastor should read.

CONTENTS

Introduction

Part I: Conversion is a Process, Not an Event

Chapters 1-3

Part II: Strategies for Keeping New Members

Chapters 4-6

Part III: Particular Sociological Issues Unique to Marietta Congregation

Chapters 7-9

Part IV: Practical, Doable Plans

Chapters 10-12

Conclusion

Appendices

Bibliography