Practical and realistic insights, strategies and stories focused on contributing to a caring church culture.
You believe in the love of Christ, but does love for one another shape your church’s current culture—or the culture your church hopes to build?
Coming alongside you as a fellow church member and a biblical counsellor, Helen Thorne-Allenson offers practical, realistic insight into contributing to a church culture of care.
You’ll consider…
Reflection questions at the end of each chapter will help you practise the principles shared.
However far along your church is in cultivating a caring community, you’ll find clarifying questions, fresh ideas and biblical wisdom in A Church That Cares.
Introduction
Part One: Principles of Caring Well
1. Why Caring Matters
2. What Genuine Care Looks Like
3. Why Caring Well Is Hard
Part Two: Practicalities of Caring Well
4. Dependence: Starting with Prayer
5. Community: The Requirement for Relationship
6. Attentiveness: How to Listen Well
7. Difference: Gifts and the Body
8. Example: Growth through Role-Modelling
9. Intentionality: It Takes a Church
10. Testimony: Sharing What God Has Done
11. Clarity: Setting a Vision
12. Opportunity: Caring for the Church in Preaching and Teaching
13. Wisdom: Establishing Safe Structures and Processes
14. Training: Developing Gifts
Conclusion: How Might This Look?
| Contributors | Helen Thorne–Allenson |
|---|---|
| ISBN | 9781802544022 |
| Format | eBook |
| First published | May 2026 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | The Good Book Company |
