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Guidance for church leaders to develop their own maps and chart new paths toward stronger, more vibrant, and more missional congregations

In 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 model
  • Written by Alan Roxburgh, a prominent expert and practitioner in the missional movement
  • Guides leaders seeking to create new maps for leadership and church organization and focus
  • A Volume in t

    Table of Contents

    About Leadership Network vii

    Introduction: An Uncertain Journey ix

    Part One When Maps No Longer Work 1

    Chapter One Maps Shaping Our Imaginations in Modernity 3

    Chapter Two Leading in an In-Between Time 19

    Chapter Three When Common Sense is No Longer Common 41

    Chapter Four From Playing Pool to Herding Cats 59

    Chapter Five Why Strategic Planning Doesn’t Work in This New Space and Doesn’t Fit God’s Purposes 73

    Chapter Six Eight Currents of Change and the Challenge of Making New Maps 87

    Chapter Seven Lessons from the Formation of the Internet for Leading in This New Space 111

    Part Two The Map-Making Process 125

    Chapter Eight Cultivating a Core Identity in a Changed Environment 127

    Chapter Nine Cultivating Parallel Cultures of the Kingdom 143

    Chapter Ten Map-Making Partnerships Between a Local Church and Neighborhoods and Communities 163

    Notes 189

    The Author 196

    Index 197

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    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
    Publication Date: 05/03/2010
    ISBN13: 9780470486726, 978-0470486726
    ISBN10: 0470486724
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    Description

    Book Synopsis

    Guidance for church leaders to develop their own maps and chart new paths toward stronger, more vibrant, and more missional congregations

    In 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 model
    • Written by Alan Roxburgh, a prominent expert and practitioner in the missional movement
    • Guides leaders seeking to create new maps for leadership and church organization and focus
    • A Volume in t

      Table of Contents

      About Leadership Network vii

      Introduction: An Uncertain Journey ix

      Part One When Maps No Longer Work 1

      Chapter One Maps Shaping Our Imaginations in Modernity 3

      Chapter Two Leading in an In-Between Time 19

      Chapter Three When Common Sense is No Longer Common 41

      Chapter Four From Playing Pool to Herding Cats 59

      Chapter Five Why Strategic Planning Doesn’t Work in This New Space and Doesn’t Fit God’s Purposes 73

      Chapter Six Eight Currents of Change and the Challenge of Making New Maps 87

      Chapter Seven Lessons from the Formation of the Internet for Leading in This New Space 111

      Part Two The Map-Making Process 125

      Chapter Eight Cultivating a Core Identity in a Changed Environment 127

      Chapter Nine Cultivating Parallel Cultures of the Kingdom 143

      Chapter Ten Map-Making Partnerships Between a Local Church and Neighborhoods and Communities 163

      Notes 189

      The Author 196

      Index 197

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