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HCG Recommended Reading

This list of recommended reading is the result of extensive reading by some of our consultants. It is organized by topic. Some of the resources are available through our online store.

Articles

HCG is pleased to make available archived articles on subjects varying from church health to team ministry to management principles. Some are written by secular business authors and some are written from a Christian perspective. While HCG may not agree or endorse everything in these articles they are made available for our clients use and development.

Spiritual Gifts and Ministries

• Apostles and Prophets
• The Gifts of the Holy Spirit
• Apostolic Leadership: A New Paradigm from the Ancient Garden Apostolic Paradigm from the life of Adam
• Apostolic Leadership Archetype of Moses

Christian Living

• The Biblical "One Anothers"
• Great Affirmations

Change/Innovation

• The Six Myths of Creativity
• Leading Change in Higher Education

Character

• Moral Compassing
• Building Loyalty and Trust

Church

• Discipline and Restoration for Church Members
• Six Reasons People Leave Your Church
• 10 Paradigm Shifts toward Community Transformation
• The Pastoral Paradigm

Church Planting

• The Envoy; no. 3
• Church Planting: A Call or a Competency
• The Seven Constants of Church Planting

Culture

• Theology Transforming Culture
• The Present Future: The Collapse of Church Culture

Leadership

• Making the Tough Call
• Ten Principles of Servant Leadership
• Transformational Leadership
• It's a Wonderful Life
• The Signs of Overload
• Ten Ways to Pray in these Times
• Was Jesus a Level 5 Leader?
• Leadership Competencies: A Biblical Framework
• Contextual Intelligence: An Emerging Competency for Global Leaders

The Emergent Church/Postmodernism

• A Pastoral Perspective
• The Missional Church of the Future

Leadership Development and Training

• The Essentials of Leadership Development

Management

• Banks and Church Loans
• Deadly Hiring Mistakes
• The Importance of a Good Constitution

Organizational Behavior

• Eight Symptoms of Group Think

Personal Growth and Development

• Time and Priorities: How to maximize your Vital Resources

Teams

• Leading Resonant Teams
• Making Teams Work at the Top
• Tuckman's Team Theory
• The Trouble with Teamwork

Values

• Discovering Your Church’s Core Values

Vision

• Developing a Vision
• Vision Leaks

Blogs

This is where you can keep up with the frequent to infrequent rantings of our consultants on a variety of topics and issues. [Note: Hill Consulting will be developing this section in the near future].

Newsletters

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Resources and Best Practice Tools for Churches [all in pdf format]

Church Management

• Interview Questions for Hiring Staff
• Preliminary Steps for Church Staff Evaluations
• Staff Evaluation form
• Sample Bylaws and Constitutions (#1)
• Sample Bylaws and Constitutions (#2)
• Sample Bylaws and Constitutions (#3)
• Sample Bylaws and Constitutions (#4)
• Sample Salary Administration Plan and Form
• Sample Sexual Misconduct Policy for Church Staff

Small Group Ministry

• Qualifications for Cell Leadership
• Cell Leadership Application
• Conducting a Small Group Meeting
• Characteristics of Effective CARE Groups
• Common Mistakes Cell Leaders Make

Church Planting

• Sample Church Planting Timeline
• Church Planters Assessment Toolkit

Spiritual Gifts Inventory

• Carraway Spiritual Gifts Inventory
• Scoring for Carraway Gifts Test
• Spiritual Gift Definitions

Church Health and Growth

• What Natural Church Development Measures
• The Biblical Basis for the Eight Quality Characteristics

Leadership

• Pastor's End-of-the-Year Checkup
• Apostles and Apostolic Ministry
• Leading Through Change and Transition; Bobby Hill
• Code of Ministry Ethics for Christian Leaders

Favorite links

• Leader to Leader Institute - Mission is to strengthen leaders in the social sector.
• Percept - A source for demographic studies for church leaders and church planters
• MovieMinistry - Provides resources, sermon illustrations, bible studies, film-talk cards and more to assist Pastors, Youth and Lay Leaders in using the power of film to communicate and discuss our relationships with God
• Sermonspice - A good site for gathering sermon media for Pastors and Christian Communicators with a searchable library and downloadable media.
• SermonCentral - My favorite site for sermon development help; plenty of sermons, illustrations, drama ideas, and other sermon helps.
• ChurchStaffing - Maybe the best and most helpful site for searching for your church staffing needs.
• Coaching Pastors - A helpful resource for pastors who recognize the place of coaching for them and others.
• Outreach - A leading provider of church communication and outreach tools.
• Boardsource.com - A site that serves the needs of nonprofits in the governance arena.
• 5loaves.net - A Christian alternative to MySpace.