Deep and   Wide, Andy Stanley
Deep and   Wide, Andy Stanley
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Deep and Wide
Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend

Author: Andy Stanley

Narrator: Tom Parks

Unabridged: 14 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 09/25/2012


Synopsis

A Close Look at What It Takes to Create an Irresistible Church.This isn't a book about how to make your church bigger. This is a book about how to make your church more appealing to the people who don’t usually—or have never—gone to church.Deep and Wide provides church leaders with an in-depth look into North Point Community Church and its strategies, its goals, its methods, and its story. You'll learn how to create a church that unchurched people absolutely love to attend. Pastor Andy Stanley explains:His strategy for preaching and programming to both mature believers and skeptics.North Point's spiritual formation model: The Five Faith Catalysts.Three essential ingredients for creating irresistible environments.How to tackle the challenge of transitioning a local congregation. Updated & Expanded edition includes discussion guide, church staff resources, and a Q&A with Andy!"Andy Stanley is on the front lines of a major shift in how both Christians and non-Christians experience "church" in America. In Deep and Wide, Andy opens up his playbook for how North Point Community Church grew into one of the nation's most effective churches, openly shares their victories and failures, and shows you how to take your own church deeper in the Word and wider in appeal." —Dave Ramsey, New York Times bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio show host.

About Andy Stanley

Communicator, author, and pastor Andy Stanley founded Atlanta-based North Point Ministries (NPM) in 1995. Today, NPM consists of eight churches in the Atlanta area and a network of 180 churches around the globe that collectively serve over 200,000 people weekly. As host of Your Move with Andy Stanley, which delivers over 10.5 million messages each month through television, digital platforms, and podcasts, and author of more than 20 books, including Irresistible; Better Decisions, Fewer Regrets; and Deep & Wide, Andy is considered one of the most influential pastors in America.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeff on September 27, 2012

This is a brilliant book. A must-read if you love the local church.......more

Goodreads review by Jeremy on June 13, 2014

This is an engaging account of Andy Stanley's journey to the leadership of Northpoint, as well as a thorough tour of the process and philosophy behind the Northpoint structure. I think that just as God creates each of us with different areas of passion and focus, all within the scope of God's heart,......more

Goodreads review by Jessyca on August 21, 2012

Deep & Wide is the new open source standard for the church. Andy Stanley has provided a selfless engaging tour behind the curtain of North Point Ministries and left no mystery as to what they’re about and how they do it. He has taken the time to lead his team through the hard work of defining missio......more

Goodreads review by Bj on January 06, 2015

This book is a must read for church leaders. Deep & Wide is Andy's magnum opus. It's his complete layout of what Northpoint does and why they do it. While I certainly do not agree with everything that Andy proposes in this book about the way that church should be done, I wholeheartedly agree with th......more