Product Description

The author mines the depths of God's calling and provides five creative strategies to help fulfill the Great Commission in your community.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #672028 in Books
• Published on: 2003-07-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 224 pages

Review
"Be careful, your church may never be the same." -- Gene Appel, Willow Creek Community Church

A book definitely geared toward people in leadership positions in ministry or business, PastorPreneur is applicable to anyone with a heart for ministry and a willingness to let God use him or her. If you are willing to leave the safety of where you are in order to get where God would have you go, then consider PastorPreneur as a valuable resource to help you discover and implement the vision God has for you. --Brenda Risner

He challenges pastors and other leaders to follow a practical but proven pathway to make a great church. -- Carl George, Consulting for Growth

John's a strategic thinker. He's a visionary. But he knows that reaching others for Christ is not his vision alone. In the past few years he's also become a great empowerer to others in the ministry. John believes in partnerships and alliances, and he loves working with others. He's not been afraid to ask others to take the journey with him. The result? Thousands are taking that journey today that weren't just a half decade ago. Carson Valley Christian Center is succeeding due to a focused vision coupled with strategic thinking. If you're thinking your way through developing a new church or being an agent for change in your present ministry, PastorPreneur is worth reading. John Jackson knows what he's talking about because he's lived it. For John and the people at Carson Valley Christian Center, changed thinking has been worth the risk. I know it will be for you too! --Foreword by John Maxwell

From the Publisher
VisionQuest Ministries, in cooperation with Baxter Publishing, is pleased to release this ground breaking new work. Through our strategic Ministry Partnership with Kingdom Ventures (kdmv:otcbb), we are able to distribute this product to churches throughout America.

From the Author
Pastorpreneur is an exciting new book that may change the way pastors of existing churches look at their ministry.

In addition, Christian business leaders will discover that their marketplace skills can be used in helping their local church fulfill the Great Commission!

For pastors who may feel a leading toward church planting, this book will provide a creative and strategic roadmap to help focus their goal of planting a church that will effectively lead people to Jesus Christ. Pastors of existing churches will find their hearts stirred to move their church beyond "business as usual".

In addition, Pastorpreneur equips pastors AND laypersons to help fulfill the Great Commission in their local community.

I believe that I am writing from a unique perspective: Founding Pastor of a five year old church which reaches 1500 people per weekend(with only 100,000 people within 30 miles of our church and where only 5% of the people attend church!), Denominational Leader, Senior Pastor and Church Staff Member. I have seen ministry from a variety of perspectives and am convinced that the church can/must move beyond business as usual!

Customer Reviews

A cutting edge resource
This is a powerful and practical book to help push us out of our comfort zone. Among the many strengths of PastorPreneur is its focus on forming and clarifying vision and giving practical and biblical strategies to help us move forward. If you want to stay fresh and be on the cutting edge - better read John Jackson's PastorPreneur!

Finally
Finally. A book that does justice to the entreprenurial spirit. I've always struggled wtih the fact that the church seems to lag behind the culture by 20 years. Where are the Holy Spirit entrepreneurs. John Jackson is one of them. I love his unique angle on the entreprenurial pastor.

Read the book.

It'll unleash the entreprenuer within!

The Right Idea In Suspended Animation
My name is Dr. Jovan-Justine Love and I believe this book is good for top-level vision, mission, leadership work and how to be creative in that regard but, it is weak on the more substantive matters of how to get the job done. In other words, how to bring the heavenly idea down to earth and out of suspended animation. Dr. Jackson readily admits this weakness in the book, in the chapter titled, "A Vision Without
A Plan". He states upfront, "This is not a book on planning. It is a book on vision...yet planning is essential to fulfill the dream God has given you and your church." He then proceeds to give nice tips on how to prepare to plan without giving any instruction on planning - putting legs and feet on the vision. Nevertheless, as the Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurial Ministry at Somerset Christian College. I will also say, the idea of combining pastors with entrepreneurs is not only novel but true. A minister must have a certain amount of entrepreneurial ability in order to start a church or a parachurch ministry. My biggest caution with this book is that implementing Dr. Jackson's strategies without an actual plan of action can quickly turn into a smoke-screen or symbolic politics at best. Reviewed by Dr. Jovan-Justine Love, Entrepreneurial Ministry, Somerset Christian College.