JR Woodward 
Creating a Missional Culture [EPUB ebook] 
Equipping the Church for the Sake of the World

Once upon a time, Moses had had enough.Exhausted by the challenge of leading the Israelites from slavery to the Promised Land, Moses cried out to God, ‘What have I done to displease you that you put the burden of all these people on me? . . . If this is how you are going to treat me, please go ahead and kill me’ (Exodus 11:11, 15).If that sounds hauntingly familiar to you, you may be the senior pastor of a contemporary church. The burden of Christian leadership is becoming increasingly unbearable–demanding skills not native to the art of pastoring; demanding time that makes sabbath rest and even normal sleep patterns seem extravagant; demanding inhuman levels of efficiency, proficiency and even saintliness.No wonder pastors seem and even feel less human these days. No wonder they burn out or break down at an alarming rate; no wonder the church is missing the mark on its mission.In Creating a Missional Culture, JR Woodward offers a bold and surprisingly refreshing model for churches–not small adjustments around the periphery of a church's infrastructure but a radical revisioning of how a church ought to look, from its leadership structure to its mobilization of the laity. The end result looks surprisingly like the church that Jesus created and the apostles cultivated: a church not chasing the wind but rather going into the world and making disciples of Jesus.

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Tables, Illustrations and Diagrams
Foreword
Introduction
I: The Power of Culture
1. What Is Missional Culture and Why Does It Matter?
2. How Culture Works
3. What’s Going on in the Culture of the Church You Serve?
4. Polycentric Leadership and Missional Culture
II: A Leadership Imagination That Shapes Culture
5: Facing Today’s Challenges
6: Hearing the Story
7: Deepening Theological Roots
8: Embracing Emotional Health
9: Relinquishing the Need to Control
III: The Five Culture Creators
10: Jesus the Archetypical Culture Creator
11: Apostles [Dream Awakeners]
12: Prophets [Heart Revealers]
13: Evangelist [Story Tellers]
14: Pastors [Soul Healers]
15: Teachers [Light Givers]
IV: Embodying a Missional Culture
16: The Cultural Web and the Neighborhood Church
17: Cultivating Missional Environments
18: Cultivating an Equipping Ethos
19: Polycentric Leadership at Work
Appendix A-Equippers and Their Roles
Appendix B-Equipper Candidate Reference Form
Appendix C-Equipper Candidate Interview
Acknowledgments

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Alan Hirsch is the founding Director of Forge Mission Training Network. He is the co-founder of shapevine.com, an international forum for engaging with world transforming ideas. He leads Future Travelers, a learning journey applying missional-incarnational approaches to established churches and is an active participant in The Tribe of LA, a Jesus community among artists and creatives in Los Angeles.Known for his innovative approach to mission, Hirsch is a teacher and key mission strategist for churches across the western world. His popular book The Shaping of Things to Come (with Michael Frost) is widely considered to be a seminal text on mission. Alan's recent book The Forgotten Ways, has quickly become a key reference for missional thinking, particularly as it relates to movements. His book Re Jesus is a radical restatement about the role that Jesus plays in defining missional movements. Untamed, his latest book (with his wife Debra) is about missional discipleship for a missional church.His experience in leadership includes leading a local church movement among the marginalized as well as heading up the Mission and Revitalization work of his denomination. Hirsch is an adjunct professor at Fuller Seminary and lectures frequently throughout Australia, Europe, and the U.S.