This book is becoming more important and relevant with every passing hour. There is no time to waste in learing how to navigate our secular age. Our Christian faith and influence can often appear shallow without practical application to business ministry and organisational leadership.
This book plumbs new depths in the necessary foundations for leadership and for aspiring leaders in business, ministry and media. It explores how leaders manage the necessary call to action in emerging from the deceptively treacherous waters of our Secular Age.
Prepare to discover the source of inspiration for new strategies empowering the resources already in your hand to engage in the public battle for hearts and minds.
Uncovering the riches of biblical ‘transcendence’ unlocks the power that reshapes human desires.
Only a change of season can reverse the encroaching secularization that marginalises faith and threatens to trap even unwary Christians in a secular dimension.
Public Christians in a Secular Age introduces the idea that the future of faith requires Christians in business, ministry and media not to be ‘secular’ but to reimagine life and activity according to a higher purpose.
The environment we create, the products of our work, and the leaders we raise up, may be more powerful than we ever imagined.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The Loss of Transcendence 27
Chapter 2: The New Secularism 41
Chapter 3: The Value of Transcendence 51
Chapter 4: Secular Transcendence – ‘Fools Gold’ 69
Chapter 5: Transcendence in Australia 87
Chapter 6: A Transition of Authority – Print to Electronic Media 95
Chapter 7: Christian Music and Arts – Reflecting Transcendence 109
Chapter 8: An ‘Eclipse’ of Culture 121
Chapter 9: 21st Century Australian Christian Radio – Vision and Values 131
Chapter 10: The ‘Gate-Keeper’ of Radio Content 143
Chapter 11: The Return of Transcendence 159
Chapter 12: The Dynamics of Media Content 175
Chapter 13: Towards a ‘Transcendence’ Kingdom Culture 191
Chapter 14: Transcendence in Your Organisation’s Culture 205
Chapter 15: Transcendence Culture – in Practice 223
Chapter 16: A Transcendence ‘Management Framework’ 235
Chapter 17: Applying A Transcendence Strategy 245
Chapter 18: Summary and Conclusion 259
Bibliography 265
Index 276
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Neil Johnson’s media career spans four decades in broadcast/journalism running parallel to his vocation as a Christian minister of the Gospel. He’s been the host of the long running morning talk-radio program 20Twenty on Vision Christian Radio since 2010. Vision is heard in more than 770 cities and towns around Australia. Listeners are introduced to deeper Christian discussion about life, culture, science, ethics and politics in an interview format rarely heard on Australian radio. His earlier media career spanning four decades began in commercial radio, but as Christian ministry aspirations deepened, he began exploring ministry and media leadership roles in Christian Radio, serving as Program Director (96.5 Family), and later General Manager (Rhema/Life FM/Juice 107.3 FM Gold Coast). These operations became the seedbed for deeper thinking about leadership dimensions for 21st century Christians. He is passionate about Christian media, Christian education, and the importance in both city and country expressions of the ‘local church’. He’s travelled internationally to report on the deep issues facing the ‘persecuted church’ in the Middle East (2014) at the height of the Syrian Isis/civil war refugee crisis, and the aftermath of revolutions in Egypt. Neil also conducted intensive broadcast training for Christian and mainstream broadcasters in Papua New Guinea (2015). He holds a M.Min (Leadership) degree from Christian Heritage College (Australia) and has an affinity for exploring deeper Christian realities in contrast to those that are rampant in our ‘Secular Age’.
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