Growing the Church in the Power of the Holy Spirit: Seven Principles of Dynamic Cooperation

Written by Brad Long, Paul K. Stokes and Cindy Strickler

Narrated by Maurice England

Is something crucial missing from your congregation's programs?

Beneath the surface of churches' programs and activities lies the fundamental question of how leaders and churches can be enabled to discern and obediently cooperate with the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

This biblically grounded book asserts that many leaders overlook the necessary precondition of cooperating with the empowering will of the Holy Spirit before putting their plans into action. Growing the Church in the Power of the Holy Spirit is a highly practical guide for nurturing relations between believers and the Holy Spirit, a process facilitated by seven dynamics.

• Love that draws us into engagement
• Faith and obedience
• Receiving divine guidance
• Exercising spiritual discernment
• Welcoming the gifts and manifestations of the Holy Spirit
• Intercessory prayer that shapes the future
• Seeing and responding to kairos moments

Advanced by the church leadership and brought into being by the Holy Spirit, these factors help congregations preach and teach, worship, heal, govern, make disciples of converts, and evangelize.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Zondervan
• Release date: Nov 17, 2009
• ISBN: 9780310782438

Brad Long

Dr. Brad Long (DMin, Union Theological Seminary) is the Executive Director of Presbyterian Reformed Ministries International (PRMI). In 2000 he founded the Dunamis Fellowship International - a prayer community and seminary designed for equipping believers. Zeb has three children and lives in Black Mountain, North Carolina.