Deep & Wide, Expanded Edition: Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend

by Andy Stanley

Publisher:

Zondervan

, 2016

Overview

Andy Stanley’s bestselling and award-winning vision for the local church is now available in softcover. New bonus content includes a study guide, church staff helps, and an interview with Andy on the most frequently asked questions about Deep and Wide. With surprising candor and transparency pastor Andy Stanley explains how one of America’s largest churches began with a high-profile divorce and a church split. But that’s just the beginning . . . Deep and Wide provides church leaders with an in-depth look into North Point Community Church and its strategy for creating churches unchurched people absolutely love to attend. For the first time, Andy explains his strategy for preaching and programming to “dual audiences”: mature believers and cynical unbelievers. He argues that preaching to dual audiences doesn’t require communicators to “dumb down” the content. According to Stanley, it’s all in the approach. You’ll be introduced to North Point’s spiritual formation model: The Five Faith Catalysts. Leaders responsible for ministry programming and production will no doubt love Andy’s discussion of the three essential ingredients for creating irresistible environments. For pastors willing to tackle the challenge of transitioning a local congregation, Andy includes a section entitled: Becoming Deep and Wide. If your team is more concerned with who you are reaching than who you are keeping, the expanded edition of Deep & Wide will be more than a book you read; it will be a resource you come back to over and over!

Contents

Top Highlights

“This is a book about creating churches that unchurched men, women, and children love to attend.” (Page 11)

“This is a book about how to make your church more appealing to the people who are put off by all the shenanigans that give church, big churches in particular, a bad name—people who know there’s more to life than this life but who can’t imagine that the church holds any clues.” (Page 12)

“Engaging presentations are central to the success of the church’s mission. We are in the presentation business. We are the only entity charged with the responsibility of presenting the gospel. Since this responsibility is ours alone, it stands to reason that we need to be good at it. Since people aren’t breaking our doors down to hear it, we’ve got to harness every bit of our creative energies to make our presentations engaging.” (Page 174)

“It is your responsibility to lead the church in the direction that Jesus originally intended. As a leader, your task is to protect the missional integrity of the Jesus gathering to which you have been called. It is your responsibility to see to it that the church under your care continues to function as a gathering of people in process; a place where the curious, the unconvinced, the skeptical, the used-to-believe, and the broken, as well as the committed, informed, and sold-out come together around Peter’s declaration that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God.” (Pages 92–93)

“Does that mean we tailor the content to non-Christians? Nope. We tailor the experience to non-Christians. There’s a big difference.” (Page 197)

Product Details

• Title: Deep and Wide: Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend
• Author: Andy Stanley
• Edition: Expanded Edition
• Publisher: Zondervan
• Print Publication Date: 2016
• Logos Release Date: 2020
• Pages: 396
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Church marketing; Hospitality › Religious aspects--Christianity; Non-church-affiliated people
• ISBNs: 9780310143772, 9780310527497, 0310143772, 031052749X
• Resource ID: LLS:WS_7F49949C05AB457294C91F199259B275
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-12-31T23:17:17Z

About Andy Stanley

Andy Stanley, is a pastor and author in Milton, Georgia. He is the senior pastor of North Point Community Church, Buckhead Church, and Browns Bridge Community Church, Gwinnet Church, Woodstock City Church, and Decatur City Church. He was one of the founders of North Point Community Church, and also founded North Point Ministries. Stanley has written over twenty books.