Ed Young is a pastor, bestselling author, and conference speaker noted for his creative communication style. He has written over a dozen books, including Sexperiment, Fifty Shades of They, The Marriage Mirror, High Definition Living, and Kid CEO.

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Section 1: Reaching Out

1 Invest and Invite

2 Targeting the Unchurched

3 Videotaped Baptism Testimonies

4 Streaming Video

5 Intentional Marketing

6 Making Membership Strategic

7 Closing the deal

Section 2: Ministering to People

8 Kidstuf

9 Aligning Student Ministry

10 Welcome Teams

11 Community Groups

12 Area Fellowship

13 Group Link

14 The Sports Ministry

Section 3: Leading the Church:

15 Church Leadership

16 Ministry Team Representatives

17 Hiring the Right People

18 Storytelling

Section 4: Getting the Message Across

19 Sermon Planning

20 Preaching

21 Creativity

22 Teaching Less for More

23 Integrating Vision

24 Personal Evaluation

App. 1: The History of North Point Community Church

App. 2: The History of Fellowship Church

No matter how you ask the questions, the answer is always the same. Yes you can! You can incorporate innovative strategies into your church ministrystrategies that will affect not only the way you do church but that will dramatically impact the lives of current church members and help you in reaching out to your community.

In this refreshingly practically book, Andy Stanley and Ed Youngtwo of America's most innovative and effective church leadersdeliver twenty-four creative ministry tools that you can adapt and use to help your own church be all God intends it to be.

The inspirational stories on North Point Community Church in Atlanta and the Fellowship Church in Dallas are stories of small church plants that have grown into churches with weekend attendance of nine and fifteen thousand. But the true success of these dynamic churches is not revealed in their big numbers but in the lives that have been forever changed by the life-giving message of Jesus.

What you learn in the pages of this book will enable you to change the lives of those you serve -- forever.