Bergquist / Karr Church Turned Inside Out

A Guide for Designers, Refiners, and Re-Aligners
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-470-53527-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: J-B Leadership Network Series

A design-thinking book for planting or redesigning churches andincubating a new generation of leaders.
Written by Linda Bergquist and Allan Karr, two experiencedchurch planters and mentors, the book is full of wisdom, practicaladvice, and creative counsel. Instead of a business-model-as-usualapproach, the authors challenge readers to begin with the rawmaterials of beliefs, values, individuals, teams, and culture, andto then move outwards to draw from a rich palette of real andpotential church paradigms. This book is meant to provoke churchleaders to think outside of the box and to imagine how theirchurches might better reflect the image and the mission of God inthe world.
* Contains a wealth of illustrative examples, charts, and othervisual aides
* Offers a creative practical perspective and amulti-disciplinary approach to establishing a new church or leadingan existing one
* Shows how to honor a church's purpose while embracing itsunique culture
* Includes important lessons for nurturing church leadershipskills

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bergquist, Linda

Karr, Allan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures and Tables.
About Leadership Network.
Foreword (Alan Hirsch).
Preface.
1 The Once and Future Church.
2 Acknowledging Self.
3 Cultivating Community.
4 Patterns That Honor God.
5 Designing Around Beliefs.
6 Releasing Communitas.
7 Designing in Culture.
8 Embracing Culture.
9 A Palette of Models.
10 Discovering Congruency.
11 Organizing by Design
12 Organizing as Living Systems.
Notes.
Acknowledgments.
About the Authors.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Linda Bergquist has been a church planter and church plantingteacher for twenty-five years. She also has experience in the areaof church consultations and urban ministry to the poor and assistsher husband, who is a ministry center director in the Lower Haightdistrict of San Francisco.
Allan Karr is currently an associate professor ofmissional/church planting at Golden Gate Baptist TheologicalSeminary and a practitioner of church planting and communitydevelopment. Allan has also served for ten years as a nationalmissionary of the North American Mission Board of the SouthernBaptist Convention.
ABOUT LEADERSHIP NETWORK
The mission of Leadership Network identifies and connectsinnovative church leaders, providing them with resources in theform of new ideas, people, and tools. Contact Leadership Networkatwww.leadnet.org.