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Creating a missional culture : equipping the church for the sake of the world / JR Woodward.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: PraxisPublisher: Downers Grove, IL : IVP Books, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 256 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780830836536
  • 0830836535
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 262.001/7 23
LOC classification:
  • BV600.3 .W66 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
Power of culture -- What is missional culture and why does it matter? -- How culture works -- What's going on in the culture of the church you serve? -- Polycentric leadership and missional culture -- Leadership imagination that shapes missional culture -- Facing today's challenges -- Hearing the story -- Deepening theological roots -- Embracing emotional health -- Relinquishing the need to control -- Five culture creators -- Jesus the archetypical culture creator -- Apostles: dream awakeners -- Prophets: heart revealers -- Evangelists: story tellers -- Pastors: soul healers -- Teachers: light givers -- Embodying a missional culture -- Cultural web and the neighborhood church -- Cultivating missional environments -- Cultivating an equipping ethos -- Polycentric leadership at work -- Equippers and their roles -- Equipper candidate reference form -- Equipper candidate interview.
Summary: Missiologist and church planter JR Woodward offers a roadmap for the missional church--not small adjustments around the periphery of the infrastructure but a radical revisioning of how a church ought to look that entails changing how we think about leadership and what we expect out of discipleship.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Print book for loan Krauth Memorial Branch Philadelphia General Collection BV600.3 .W66 2012 Available 31794003162527
Print book for loan Wentz Memorial Branch Gettysburg General Collection (Lower Level) BV600.3 .W66 2012 1 Available 31826003525657

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-256).

Power of culture -- What is missional culture and why does it matter? -- How culture works -- What's going on in the culture of the church you serve? -- Polycentric leadership and missional culture -- Leadership imagination that shapes missional culture -- Facing today's challenges -- Hearing the story -- Deepening theological roots -- Embracing emotional health -- Relinquishing the need to control -- Five culture creators -- Jesus the archetypical culture creator -- Apostles: dream awakeners -- Prophets: heart revealers -- Evangelists: story tellers -- Pastors: soul healers -- Teachers: light givers -- Embodying a missional culture -- Cultural web and the neighborhood church -- Cultivating missional environments -- Cultivating an equipping ethos -- Polycentric leadership at work -- Equippers and their roles -- Equipper candidate reference form -- Equipper candidate interview.

Missiologist and church planter JR Woodward offers a roadmap for the missional church--not small adjustments around the periphery of the infrastructure but a radical revisioning of how a church ought to look that entails changing how we think about leadership and what we expect out of discipleship.

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