Neil Cole - Church Transfusion: Changing Your Church Organically—From the Inside Out

Copyright 2012 by Neil Cole and Phil Helfer. All rights reserved.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Cole, Neil, date

Church transfusion : changing your church organicallyfrom the inside out / Neil Cole and Phil Helfer ; foreword by Dave Ferguson.

p. cm. (The Jossey-Bass leadership network series)

Includes index.

ISBN 978-1-118-13128-2 (hardback); ISBN 978-1-118-22509-7 (ebk; ISBN 978-1-118-23851-6 (ebk); ISBN 978-1-118-26318-1 (ebk)

1. Church renewal. 2. Church. I. Helfer, Phil, 1958 II. Title.

BV600.3.C635 2012

253dc23

2012017443

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