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 the popular Leadership Network Series
This book is written to be accessible to all Christian
congregational styles and denominations.
Tabella dei contenuti
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
Circa l’autore
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.
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