Woodward, J. R.,  1963- <br/><br/>
Creating a missional culture :  equipping the church for the sake of the world / 
JR Woodward. 
 - 256 pages :  illustrations ;  23 cm. 
 - Praxis .
 - Praxis. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-256). 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780830836536 0830836535 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2012018664 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Church.<br/>Church renewal.<br/>Mission of the church.<br/>Missional church movement.<br/>Emerging church movement.<br/>Postmodernism--Religious aspects--Christianity.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BV600.3  / .W66 2012 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>262.001/7