AND - Hugh Halter

AND by Hugh Halter and Matt Smay asks and provides an answer for one of the most important questions for church leaders today: What is happening to the church in America? By all appearances it looks like we are doing church better than we ever have. In the past thirty years the number of mega-churches has increased from under 100 to over 7500. In the past ten years the number of multi-site churches has increased from under 100 to over 2000. By the numbers these church movements enjoy the national platform the national voice and the resources to profoundly impact the Kingdom. In spite of the rapid growth of these prevailing church movements why is the Western church still in massive decline? Numerous books have been written documenting the flight of members from the institutional church. This is not another book about how to do church better or how to just get people back into the pews. AND helps you-whether you are a mega-church traditional contemporary or organic church leader-focus on the vast majority of unchurched Christians and non-believers who are not moving toward any form of church. You will learn how to value existing church forms-attracting people to a physical church and releasing people into hands-on ministry ... bringing together the very best of the attractional and missional models for church ministry. AND will equip you and all church leaders to value existing church forms while catalyzing a missional movement of incarnational people into the world for Jesus Christ. AND is the second book in the Exponential Series-a partnership between Exponential Network Leadership Network and Zondervan featuring several signature books each year to tell the reproducing church story celebrate the diversity of models and approaches God is using to reproduce healthy congregations and highlight the innovative practices of healthy reproducing churches.