In Off-Road Disciplines, Earl Creps reveals that the on-road practices of prayer and Bible reading should be bolstered by the other kinds of encounters with God that occur unexpectedly–complete with the bumps and bruises that happen when you go ‘off-road.’ Becoming an off-road leader requires the cultivation of certain spiritual disciplines that allow the presence of the Holy Spirit to arrange your interior life. Earl Creps explores twelve central spiritual disciplines–six personal and six organizational–that Christian leaders of all ages and denominations need if they are to change themselves and their churches to reach out to the culture around them.
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About Leadership Network ix
Foreword xi
Introduction: Off-Road Disciplines xiii
Part One: Personal Disciplines
1. Death: The Discipline of Personal Transformation 3
2. Truth: The Discipline of Sacred Realism 15
3. Perspective: The Discipline of POV 27
4. Learning: The Discipline of Reverse Mentoring 41
5. Witness: The Discipline of Spiritual Friendship 55
6. Humility: The Discipline of Decreasing 71
Part Two: Organizational Disciplines
7. Assessment: The Discipline of Missional Efficiency 87
8. Harmony: The Discipline of Blending Differences 99
9. Reflection: The Discipline of Discernment 123
10. Opportunity: The Discipline of Making Room 139
11. Sacrifice: The Discipline of Surrendering 157
Preferences
12. Legacy: The Discipline of Passing the Baton 173
Epilogue: Three Coffee Houses 185
Notes 187
Acknowledgments 203
The Author 205
Index 207
Over de auteur
Earl Creps (Springfield, MO) is a popular speaker and leader who regularly connects with a wide variety of audiences in venues across the U.S.–postmodern/emergent groups, laypeople and leaders in Protestant denominations, college students and youth groups, and missionary organizations. He is also Director and Associate Professor of Leadership and Spiritual Renewal at the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary in Springfield, MO. He has been a pastor, ministries consultant, and seminary professor. In 2003 he received a grant from the Louisville Institute to study postmodern Pentacostals. He is the author of numerous articles, as well as a chapter in Mike Yaconelli’s STORIES OF EMERGENCE.
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