Cory Hartman

What makes for a flourishing workplace? Many organizations find themselves spinning their wheels in work cultures filled with toxicity, dysfunction, conflict, and fear. Unengaged employees drag down productivity, and ineffective management undermines morale. How can we create workplaces where people don't just struggle to get through the day but instead thrive and love what they do and where they work? Al Lopus, cofounder and CEO of Best Christian Workplaces Institute, has studied hundreds of organizations to discover eight key drivers in companies with healthy culture and engaged employees. He gathers best practices from across a range of companies and ministries to demonstrate how people at all levels can work together to accomplish work that matters. Principles and real-life examples provide concrete ways that organizations can flourish by building fantastic teams, cultivating life-giving work, attracting and retaining outstanding talent, and much more. With compelling case studies, behind-the-curtain revelations, and enlightening personal anecdotes, Road to Flourishing will motivate leaders, managers, and their teams to reimagine, reassess, and renew their commitment to building healthy work cultures where everyone can flourish.

Church growth models have often been long on promises and short on disciple-making. We continue to watch consistent church attendance shrink, and our desire to reach the lost is infected with a need for self-validation by growing our numbers at any cost. If we believe that God wants his church to grow, where do we go from here? What is the future of the church? Drawing from his 20 years and 15,000 hours of consulting, author Will Mancini shares with pastors and ministry leaders the single most important insight he has learned about church growth. With plenty of salient stories and based solidly on the disciple-making methods found in Scripture, Future Church exposes the church's greatest challenge today, and offers 7 transforming laws of real church growth so that we can faithfully and joyfully fulfill Jesus's Great Commission.

"Showing up is 80 percent of life." -Woody AllenShowing up is more than 80 percent of the Christian life . . . at least, that's the assumption of Church As We Know It. The overwhelming bulk of what the church communicates to the outside world is "show up"-when to show up, where to show up, why they should show up, what they missed out on because they didn't show up. But did Jesus command, "Go into all the world and tell people to show up"? There is another way. Leaven your communications mix with gospel-shaped answers to the questions that skeptics and seekers are asking. Leverage your online presence to build rapport and communicate the good news before a guest even thinks about showing up. Make your website an evangelism toolkit and equip your people to share the gospel naturally and easily in their personal relationships. To the church's communications problem there is a content solution. "From 'Show Up' to 'Grow Up'" shows you how." In the dustbowl of church marketing, where churches thirst to attract indifferent spectators, Cory Hartman irrigates communication with the gospel. To create a culture of mission that results in real church growth, leaders need a new approach to outreach. This book is not only studded with biblical and historical insights. It also provides tools that upgrade your disciplemaking this year, your website this month, and your preaching this week."-Will Mancini, founder of Auxano, author of "Church Unique: How Missional Leaders Cast Vision, Capture Culture, and Create Movement"