Creating a Missional Culture – Equipping the Church for the Sake of the World

Jr Woodward, Alan Hirsch (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2012
Inter-Varsity Press,US (Verlag)
978-0-8308-3653-6 (ISBN)

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Missiologist and church planter JR Woodward offers a blueprint for a church in search of a missional culture. Expanding on the biblical principles giving life to the missional movement worldwide, Woodward calls not for small tweaks to the church?s image but for a recasting of the very environment that shapes us.

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.

JR Woodward is a church planter, activist, consultant, missiologist, speaker and writer. He cofounded Kairos Los Angeles and the Ecclesia Network, a relational network of missional churches. He is the director of the Solis Foundation, which partners with churches in Kenya to equip and resource people living in extreme poverty to create sustainable businesses. He blogs at jrwoodward.net. 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 ReJesus 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.

List of Figures and Tables

Foreword by Alan Hirsch

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1: 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

Part 2: A Leadership Imagination That Shapes Missional Culture

5. Facing Today's Challenges

6. Hearing the Story

7. Deepening Theological Roots

8. Embracing Emotional Health

9. Relinquishing the Need to Control

Part 3: The Five Culture Creators

10. Jesus the Archetypical Culture Creator

11. Apostles: Dream Awakeners

12. Prophets: Heart Revealers

13. Evangelists: Story Tellers

14. Pastors: Soul Healers

15. Teachers: Light Givers

Part 4: 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 1: Equippers and Their Roles

Appendix 2: Equipper Candidate Reference Form

Appendix 3: Equipper Candidate Interview

Notes

Verlagsort	Illinois
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 229 mm
Gewicht	400 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Pastoraltheologie
ISBN-10	0-8308-3653-5 / 0830836535
ISBN-13	978-0-8308-3653-6 / 9780830836536
Zustand	Neuware