Church Turned Inside Out

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-470-38317-9
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 509 g

A design-thinking book for planting or redesigning churches and incubating a new generation of leaders.

Written by Linda Bergquist and Allan Karr, two experienced church planters and mentors, the book is full of wisdom, practical advice, and creative counsel. Instead of a business-model-as-usual approach, the authors challenge readers to begin with the raw materials of beliefs, values, individuals, teams, and culture, and to then move outwards to draw from a rich palette of real and potential church paradigms. This book is meant to provoke church leaders to think outside of the box and to imagine how their churches might better reflect the image and the mission of God in the world.

- Contains a wealth of illustrative examples, charts, and other visual aides
- Offers a creative practical perspective and a multi-disciplinary approach to establishing a new church or leading an existing one
- Shows how to honor a church's purpose while embracing its unique culture
- Includes important lessons for nurturing church leadership skills

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bergquist, Linda

Karr, Allan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures and Tables ix

About Leadership Network xi

Foreword by Alan Hirsch xiii

Preface xvii

1 The Once and Future Church 1

2 Acknowledging Self 17

3 Cultivating Community 33

4 Patterns That Honor God 51

5 Designing Around Beliefs 67

6 Releasing Communitas 79

7 Designing in Culture 95

8 Embracing Culture 113

9 A Palette of Models 125

10 Discovering Congruency 145

11 Organizing by Design 159

12 A New Way of Organizing 177

Notes 191

Acknowledgments 201

About the Authors 205

Index 207

Über Autor(innen)

LINDA BERGQUIST has been a church planter and church planting teacher for twenty-five years. She also has experience in the area of church consultations and urban ministry to the poor and assists her husband, who is a ministry center director in the Lower Haight district of San Francisco.

ALLAN KARR is currently an associate professor of missional/church planting at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary and a practitioner of church planting and community development. Allan has also served for ten years as a national missionary of the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention.