Minatrea Shaped By God's Heart

The Passion and Practices of Missional Churches
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-1-118-42941-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: J-B Leadership Network Series

Discover the tools to create a new kind of church and move frommerely surviving to thriving.
Drawing on an extensive two-year field study of 200 churches froma variety of denominations and geographic regions, MilfredMinatrea--a missiologist, urban strategist and practioner inminister--presents the best practices for re-energizing Christianspirituality in a congregational setting. He provides readers withthe tools for assessing their congregation's position on thecontinuum between maintenance and mission and for determining theactions that will move them toward becoming a missional community.He also outlines key strategies that successful churches have usedto become relevant in a postmodern society without losing what isdistinctly Christian in their spiritual practices.
Milfred Minatrea (Irving, TX) is Director of the MissionalChurch Center for the Baptist General Convention of Texas.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Minatrea, Milfred

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: A Personal Letter to the Reader.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction: Sending the Church into the World.
PART ONE: The Church in a New and ChangingWorld.
1. From Maintenance to Missional: The Church in a World ofChange.
2. Be Church and Be Changed: How Missional Churches Live TheirPassion.
PART TWO: The Nine Essential Practices of MissionalChurches.
3. Missional Practice Number One: Have a High Threshold forMembership.
4. Missional Practice Number Two: Be Real, Not RealReligious.
5. Missional Practice Number Three: Teach to Obey Rather Than toKnow.
6. Missional Practice Number Four: Rewrite Worship EveryWeek.
7. Missional Practice Number Five: Live Apostolically.
8. Missional Practice Number Six: Expect to Change theWorld.
9. Missional Practice Number Seven: Order Actions According toPurpose.
10. Missional Practice Number Eight: Measure Growth by Capacityto Release, Not Retain.
11. Missional Practice Number Nine: Place Kingdom ConcernsFirst
PART THREE: Structures and Strategies for BecomingMissional.
12. They Run Rapids in Rubber Rafts: Church Structures That CanSurvive the Rapids of Cultural Change.
13. Seeing Beyond the Horizon: The Nature and Task of MissionalLeadership.
14. Moving to Missional: Becoming a New Kind of Church.
Appendix: Missional Church Cultural Assessment.
Notes.
About Leadership Network.
The Author.

Über Autor(innen)

Milfred Minatrea is the director of the Missional Church Center for the Baptist General Convention of Texas. He served as pastor of several churches before becoming a highly sought-after church consultant. Minatrea desires to be an authentic disciple of Jesus and enjoys walking with others on that spiritual journey.