Living Your Strengths Book

Living Your Strengths Book
I believe a part of being wise in leadership is undrstanding who you are and how you function. Below is one on the unique tools available today to measure the way you function. Although no single test or experience can tell who you are or were creted to be. I have found these test to affirm who I am and how I function. I have included my test results for this test so you have an example . This book and test might be a helpful and fun tool to use in your life and with your team, as well. For an example o the test results go to http:/equippersresume.blogspot.com

The following reviw or promo is from the Gallup web site.
American churches are experiencing a power shortage, declare the authors of Living Your Strengths. "People aren't harnessing the power of their innate gifts."
Does their message sound familiar? Have you felt disconnected from your church lately? Are you not attending as much?
Or maybe you're a passionate member who wants to become even more involved, and would also like to inspire others.
Whatever the case, more than half of churchgoers report that they don't get to do what they do best in their congregations. And this is driving people away.
But it doesn't have to be this way. Living Your Strengths shows all members how to use their innate gifts to enrich their congregations -- right now. It teaches you to identify and affirm your talents, and how to use them for growth and service.
"This book is a careful and faith-informed roadmap to discovering our Signature Themes of talent and unleashing the God-given potential within each of us."
-- Lovett H. Weems Jr., Distinguished Professor of Church Leadership at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C., and author of Take the Next Step: Leading Lasting Change in the Church
This article is seen in it's whole at http://faith.gallup.com/content/?CI=18268

Revolution by George Barna

I am including the material below from the Barna site and a link to another preview that I have posted @ http://equippersedge.blogspot.com

Revolution By George Barna

There is a new breed of Christ-follower in America today. These are people who are more interested in being the Church than in going to church. They are more eager to produce fruit for the kingdom of God than to become comfortable in the Christian subculture. They are focused on the seven spiritual passions that facilitate their growth as genuine people of God and citizens of the kingdom. These people are Revolutionaries. In this courageous new book from bestselling author and renowned researcher George Barna, you will read the results of his studies that have discovered and described a growing national population of more than 20 million adults who are committed to living their faith and making God the top priority in their life. Some are doing so through the ministries of a local church, but many are not.
The emphasis is upon allowing God to transform them in every aspect of their life. This groundswell of spiritual passion and intensity is likely to amount to a Third Great Awakening in the United States, but with a very different look, feel and outcome than previous religious upheavals. In many ways, this new move back to God is designed to return the American Church to its roots – its first-century roots, as depicted in Acts 2.

Topics addressed in this book include:
1. The call to the Church
2. The seven passions of Revolutionaries
3. The current state of the local church
4. Confusion over Church and church
5. Significant cultural trends
6. The emerging spiritual landscape
7. Evidence of God through spiritual min-movements
8. Transformation in today’s world
9. Alternative forms of “doing church”
10. Jesus the Revolutionary
11. The motivations and behaviors of Revolutionaries
12. The impact of the Revolution
13. Characteristics of Revolutionaries
14. Common criticisms of Revolutionaries
15. Affirmations of a Revolutionary
16. How local churches can respond to the Revolution

If you think you are a Revolutionary Christian, this book will encourage you. If you are interested in the future of the Church – and the local church – this book will inform you. If you are a leader in a local church, this book will challenge you. If you are searching for your place in the kingdom of God, this book will guide you.

The Revolution is here. The American Church will never be the same. http://www.barna.org/FlexPage.aspx?Page=Resource&ResourceID=196