Alan Roxburgh 
Missional Map-Making [PDF ebook] 
Skills for Leading in Times of Transition

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.

Tabela de Conteúdo

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

Sobre o autor

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.