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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| (Re) Introducing Church Growth to a New Generation | |
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| What Do We Mean by "Church Growth"? | |
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| From Four Types of Church Growth to Six | |
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| Internal Growth | |
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| Expansion Growth | |
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| Extension Growth | |
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| Bridging Growth | |
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| Introducing Catalytic Growth | |
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| Introducing Proliferation Growth | |
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| The Case of Redeemer Presbyterian Church, Manhattan | |
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| The Case of the Inuit Christian Movement, Northern Canada | |
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| What Kind of Church Reaches Pre-Christian People? | |
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| Cultural Relevance | |
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| Emotional Relevance | |
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| Small Groups | |
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| Lay Ministries | |
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| Proliferation of Groups, Ministries, Congregations, and Leaders | |
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| Social Network Outreach | |
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| Outreach Ministries | |
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| Radical Outreach | |
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| Social Conscience | |
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| World Mission Involvement | |
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| Postscript | |
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| Perspectives on Relevant Christianity | |
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| The Stages of Mission and Cultural Relevance | |
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| Recovering the Emotional Relevance of "a Religion of the Heart" | |
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| Crash Course in Human Emotion Theory | |
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| Protestant Christianity's Pioneer in Emotionally Relevant Ministry | |
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| Emotional Relevance in Ministry Today | |
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| On Recovering Sublime Experience in Communicating Christianity | |
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| When We Reach Out, Whom Will We Reach? | |
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| Some Church Leaders Already Know Some of the Answers | |
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| The Church Growth Movement's Biggest Answer: Reach Receptive People | |
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| For Strategic Reasons, Target These Populations Too | |
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| Postscript: On Getting Your Apostolic Act Together | |
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| Evangelizing Pre-Christian People: A Thematic Perspective | |
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| Community | |
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| Compassion | |
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| Connections | |
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| Conversations | |
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| Case: Quest Community Church, Lexington, Kentucky | |
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| Evangelizing Pre-Christian People: A Narrative Perspective | |
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| How Protestant Folk Wisdom Views Evangelism | |
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| "As Simple as Possible" | |
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| The Earliest Case Study | |
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| Postscript | |
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| Leading the Change from Tradition to Mission | |
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| "There is Nothing More Difficult to Take in Hand" | |
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| Perspectives for Addressing Change | |
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| Four Theories for Informing Change | |
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| Not All Interventions Are Created Equal | |
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| Interventions in the Leadership of Change | |
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| "What If Our Church Isn't Ready for Strategic Planning" | |
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| Six More Principles for Leading Change in Churches | |
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| Postscript | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |