Cell Church by Larry Stockstill

Cell Church by Larry Stockstill

The success or failure of drug treatment programs have long been evaluated by assessing the clients' progress while in treatment and their status upon completion. This approach does not provide a complete assessment or an adequate picture of treatment outcomes over time. A comprehensive evaluation of the success or failure of treatment should also include client status in the years following treatment for a fair assessment of the long-term efficacy of any drug-treatment program.

What happens to former clients who left treatment? What influence did the treatment have on their lives? These are the questions that Marvin R. Burt seeks to answer with the follow-up studies included in this book. By selecting samples of former clients treated by two of the largest drug treatment agencies in the U.S. and control groups, Burt compares client behavior in terms of drug abuse, criminal activity, and socioeconomic productivity before, immediately following, and well after treatment.

The findings in this book challenge many common assumptions about drug treatment programs. Burt finds larger than expected positive behavioral changes in clients regardless of treatment duration or type, and demographic or background characteristics. Whether the results are attributable to the clients' maturation, commitment to change, or a reduction in the availability of drugs, the positive results of treatment are encouraging. This volume provides valuable insight into the natural history of drug abuse and outcomes for client groups.

Pastor Larry Stockstill is the former pastor of Bethany Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Roy Stockstill, Larry's father, began the church in 1963 and Larry became pastor in 1983. His son, Jonathan, became Bethany's pastor in 2011 and the church has just completed fifty years of ministry. His leading book, The Remnant: Restoring Integrity to American Ministry is being distributed nationwide and worldwide in other languages to promote renewed standards of holiness in leadership. He is also the Director of the Surge Project, a church planting project that has planted over 22,000 rural churches worldwide in twelve world zones from 2001-2013.

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ISBN 13	9780830721337
ISBN 10	0830721339
Title	Cell Church
Author	Larry Stockstill
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	David C Cook Publishing Company
Year published	2005-12-01
Number of pages	136
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