Title: Margin for Ministry
Subtitle: Avoiding Burnout While Serving God
Summary: Are you a dedicated servant of God struggling with ministry burnout? The relentless demands of serving—endless responsibilities, constant giving, and the pressure to always be “on”—can leave you feeling depleted and disconnected from your calling. In Margin for Ministry: Avoiding Burnout While Serving God, Rebecca Moore offers a beacon of hope and practical wisdom for those committed to their faith but teetering on the edge of exhaustion. This transformative guide helps you create sustainable space—margin for rest, reflection, and renewal—essential for long-term joy and effectiveness in ministry. Discover how to:
- Redefine Success: Focus on faithfulness and joy rather than numbers or attendance.
- Recognize Burnout: Identify early signs of ministry fatigue and its spiritual impact.
- Nourish Your Soul: Embrace daily rituals, worship, and prayer to sustain your spiritual health.
- Honor the Sabbath: Craft life-giving routines that prioritize rest and renewal.
- Set Boundaries: Learn to say no and establish healthy work-life balance.
- Build Community: Find your tribe through mentorship and supportive relationships.
- Stay Christ-Centered: Guard against distractions like comparison and success culture.
Title: The Grace-Based Church
Subtitle: Biblical Strategies for Growth, Authentic Discipleship, and Replacing Religion with Relationship
Summary: Are you a dedicated pastor or church leader frustrated by stagnant church growth? Do your best efforts in church outreach and discipleship feel more like managing a struggling organization than leading a vibrant spiritual family? You are likely witnessing the effects of a modern-day Babylon Church—a system of religion that prioritizes ritual over relationship, performance over passion, and law over grace. This widespread struggle leads to leader burnout, member fatigue, and a feeling that you’re just going through the motions of ministry, trapped in a cycle of empty ritual. This spirit of religion is exhausting and unsustainable. It creates a culture of legalism and judgmentalism that values attendance over authenticity, programs over people, and metrics over maturity. This system is the hidden barrier to your church growth strategies. It stifles the very life and power of the gospel, making evangelism feel forced and discipleship feel like a dry curriculum. Whether you’re engaged in church planting or revitalizing an established congregation, the Babylon Church erodes joy, fosters division, and is the root cause of the plateaued church growth statistics you’re fighting against. The current church growth trends show that people aren’t just looking for another program; they’re starving for authentic community and a way out of Babylon. There is a proven, biblical way to exit Babylon. The Grace-Based Church offers a revolutionary church growth theory grounded in the New Testament, providing a clear escape from the religious system. This is not another book of superficial church growth strategies; it is your guide to breaking free from the bondage of performance and building a thriving congregation through the power of grace and authentic relationship. Inside, you’ll find practical steps for Exiting Babylon, learn to recognize the Toxic Byproducts of a religious spirit, and discover the Pathway of Grace. This book provides the church growth research and framework you need to replace performance with presence, legalism with love, and ritual with real growth. You will discover a new church growth mindset that works for any context, including specific church growth strategies for small churches, large churches, and those in rural areas. This is the ultimate church growth resource for leaders who want to move beyond theory, dismantle the Babylon Church model, and cultivate a self-sustaining church growth movement powered by grace. Inside you’ll find ways to:
- 🔍 Expose the Babylon System: Learn to identify the marks of Babylon—the legalism, judgmentalism, and tradition-over-truth that sabotage authentic church growth and lead to church leadership burnout. This book provides the diagnostic tools you need.
- 🚪 Find the Exit Strategy: Get practical, actionable steps for Exiting Babylon. This book is your guide to breaking free from the religious spirit, with proven tools for liberation from performance-based ministry and strategies for building new foundations of authentic faith.
- 📈 Implement Proven Grace-Based Growth Models: Move beyond outdated church growth models. This framework fosters natural, sustainable expansion through grace-based discipleship and evangelism, showing you how to craft an authentic community based on the New Testament model.
- 🌱 See Real Transformation: Be inspired by powerful personal testimonials and case studies that prove this shift from ritual to relationship is measurable and real.
