Creating a missional culture : equipping the church for the sake of the world / JR Woodward.
Material type: TextSeries: PraxisPublisher: Downers Grove, IL : IVP Books, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 256 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780830836536
- 0830836535
- 262.001/7 23
- BV600.3 .W66 2012
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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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.