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Missional Map-Making

Skills for Leading in Times of Transition

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

Av Alan Roxburgh

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Guidance for church leaders to develop their own maps and chart new paths toward stronger, more vibrant, and more missional congregationsIn the burgeoning missional church movement, churches are seeking to become less focused on programs for members and more oriented toward outreach to people who are not already in church. This fundamental shift in what a congregation is and does and thinks is challenging for leaders and congregants. Using the metaphor of map-making, the book explains the perspective and skills needed to lead congregations and denominations in a time of radical change over unfamiliar terrain as churches change their focus from internal to external. Offers a clear guide for leaders wanting to transition to a missional church modelWritten by Alan Roxburgh, a prominent expert and practitioner in the missional movementGuides leaders seeking to create new maps for leadership and church organization and focusA Volume in the popular Leadership Network SeriesThis book is written to be accessible to all Christian congregational styles and denominations.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2010-03-05
Mått150 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt408 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieJossey-Bass Leadership Network Series
Antal sidor224
FörlagJohn Wiley & Sons Inc
ISBN9780470486726

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ALAN J. ROXBURGH, president of Roxburgh Missional Network, is a pastor, teacher, writer, and consultant with more than thirty years' experience in church leadership, consulting, and seminary education. He also works with the Allelon Missional Leadership Network in the formation of leaders for the missional church. He writes a weekly online newsletter (roxburghmis sionalnet.com) as well as directing an international research project, the Mission in Western Culture Project. He the coauthor of The Missional Leader from Jossey-Bass.

About Leadership Network viiIntroduction: An Uncertain Journey ixPart One When Maps No Longer Work 1Chapter One Maps Shaping Our Imaginations in Modernity 3Chapter Two Leading in an In-Between Time 19Chapter Three When Common Sense is No Longer Common 41Chapter Four From Playing Pool to Herding Cats 59Chapter Five Why Strategic Planning Doesn’t Work in This New Space and Doesn’t Fit God’s Purposes 73Chapter Six Eight Currents of Change and the Challenge of Making New Maps 87Chapter Seven Lessons from the Formation of the Internet for Leading in This New Space 111Part Two The Map-Making Process 125Chapter Eight Cultivating a Core Identity in a Changed Environment 127Chapter Nine Cultivating Parallel Cultures of the Kingdom 143Chapter Ten Map-Making Partnerships Between a Local Church and Neighborhoods and Communities 163Notes 189The Author 196Index 197