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Author |
: Mark Lau Branson |
Publisher |
: Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 221 |
Release |
: 2021-02-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781725271753 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1725271753 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Leadership, God’s Agency, and Disruptions by : Mark Lau Branson
Leaders in congregations and Christian organizations wrestle with an unraveling of the world in which they have little experience and training. While they are offered unending resources by experts on leadership, some with claims to biblical blueprints, the challenges seem mismatched to those methods. Branson and Roxburgh frame the situation as one in which "modernity's wager"--the conviction that God is not necessary for life and wisdom and meaning--has defined the Western imagination. Because churches and leaders are colonized by this ethos, even when God is named and beliefs are claimed, approaches to leadership are blind to God's agency. Branson and Roxburgh approach this challenge as a work in practical theology, attending to our cultural context, narratives of God's disruptive initiatives in Scripture, and a reshaping of leadership theories with a priority on God's agency. With years of experience as teachers, consultants, and guides, they name practices which lead to more faithful participation. Leadership, God's Agency, and Disruption is wide-ranging in cultural and biblical scholarship, challenging in its engagement with numerous leadership studies, and practical with its focus toward the on-the-ground life of churches and organizations.
Author |
: Mark Lau Branson |
Publisher |
: Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2021-02-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781725271746 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1725271745 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Leadership, God's Agency, and Disruptions by : Mark Lau Branson
Leaders in congregations and Christian organizations wrestle with an unraveling of the world in which they have little experience and training. While they are offered unending resources by experts on leadership, some with claims to biblical blueprints, the challenges seem mismatched to those methods. Branson and Roxburgh frame the situation as one in which “modernity’s wager”—the conviction that God is not necessary for life and wisdom and meaning—has defined the Western imagination. Because churches and leaders are colonized by this ethos, even when God is named and beliefs are claimed, approaches to leadership are blind to God’s agency. Branson and Roxburgh approach this challenge as a work in practical theology, attending to our cultural context, narratives of God’s disruptive initiatives in Scripture, and a reshaping of leadership theories with a priority on God’s agency. With years of experience as teachers, consultants, and guides, they name practices which lead to more faithful participation. Leadership, God’s Agency, and Disruption is wide-ranging in cultural and biblical scholarship, challenging in its engagement with numerous leadership studies, and practical with its focus toward the on-the-ground life of churches and organizations.
Author |
: Mark Lau Branson |
Publisher |
: InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages |
: 213 |
Release |
: 2023-02-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781514002889 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1514002884 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Churches, Cultures, and Leadership by : Mark Lau Branson
In a world that is more culturally diverse than ever, pastors and lay leaders need skills and competencies to serve in multicultural contexts. This rich blend of astute analysis and practical guidance offers a praxis of paying attention, study, and discernment that leads to genuine reconciliation and shared life empowered by the gospel.
Author |
: Mark Lau Branson |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 173 |
Release |
: 2004-06-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781566995825 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1566995825 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Memories, Hopes, and Conversations by : Mark Lau Branson
A second edition of Memories, Hopes, and Conversations is now available! With helpful updates throughout, the new edition features five new chapters on Appreciative Inquiry applied in real congregations. When First Presbyterian Church in Altadena, California, was asked to provide a mission study report for its pastor nominating committee, the congregation was afraid they would find themselves engaging in busy work and producing a report that would wind up in a file gathering dust. They then asked professor Mark Lau Branson to consult with them on writing this report. He invited them to join in a process of Appreciative Inquiry--a transformational organization change process--which resulted in a major shift in congregational conversations and a new sense of hope. Memories, Hopes, and Conversations recounts the experience of First Presbyterian and outlines a process that any congregation can utilize to harness the energies of the congregation at all levels of its common life. Branson first leads readers through the foundations of Appreciative Inquiry and bracingly explores biblical texts for understanding the practice in a faith context. He then outlines and illustrates a four-step process--Initiate, Inquire, Imagine, Innovate--that creatively employs constructive conversations and questions to evoke storytelling and spur imaginations. Branson persuasively demonstrates how concentrating on needs and problems can mire a congregation in discouragement and distract it from noticing innate strengths. By focusing on memories of the congregation at its best, members are able to construct "provocative proposals" to help shape the church’s future. Grounded in solid theory and real-life practice, Memories, Hopes, and Conversations is a groundbreaking work of narrative leadership and the first book to apply the principles of Appreciative Inquiry to the lives of congregations.
Author |
: Mark Branson |
Publisher |
: InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages |
: 213 |
Release |
: 2014-07-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780830896561 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0830896562 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Starting Missional Churches by : Mark Branson
All mission is local—the people of God joining the work of God in a particular place. In Starting Missional Churches Mark Lau Branson and Nicholas Warnes introduce us to seven missional churches and identify best practices while examining common challenges regarding their genesis.
Author |
: Alan J. Roxburgh |
Publisher |
: Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 168 |
Release |
: 2021-05-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781725288508 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1725288508 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Joining God in the Great Unraveling by : Alan J. Roxburgh
The awareness that the churches shaped out of the European Reformations are in an advanced process of unraveling is becoming increasingly sensed by many. This book proposes a way of addressing this unraveling based on the experiences and knowledge of people who have always had to struggle with the unraveling of their own communities and worlds. It takes us outside the circular conversations of the Euro-tribal churches into dialogue with people who have been marginalized to see how they have learned to reenter their formative stories to discover ways of remaking themselves in the unraveling. The book then turns these discoveries into ways the churches can engage their own massive unraveling.
Author |
: Alka Dhillon |
Publisher |
: SelectBooks, Inc. |
Total Pages |
: 232 |
Release |
: 2015-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781590793596 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1590793595 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis The OM Factor by : Alka Dhillon
How can women flourish when they’re constantly being caught in a never-ending battle of conflicting interests? Work, success, family, ambition—today’s women have never been given the tools to integrate the disparate aspects of their lives into a harmonious whole. Alka Dhillon’s The OM Factor®: The Woman’s Spiritual Guide to Leadership teaches the tools for achieving balance, success, and sanity amidst today’s chaos. The OM Factor® is your key to both immediate and long-term fixes for the stress and imbalance dominating your life. Dhillon’s holistic approach to well-being incorporates meditation, yoga, and food for reflection. Each of the 7 tools is designed to cultivate the desired trait or outcome needed for spiritual evolution. Easily applicable “plug-and-play” tools are designed to deliver instant results in emotionally challenging situations. OM Factor prescriptions address when you feel overwhelmed, inadequate, anxious, indecisive, resentment, taken advantage of, or disrespected. As you delve further, an infinitely adaptable toolbox will become available to you. Alka Dhillon brings her years of success as a CEO and entrepreneur to help you discover your own roadmap to equilibrium. Allow internal fulfillment to engender your external success.
Author |
: Stephanie Spellers |
Publisher |
: Church Publishing, Inc. |
Total Pages |
: 161 |
Release |
: 2021-03-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781640654259 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1640654259 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Church Cracked Open by : Stephanie Spellers
"This book will make a profound difference for the church in this moment in history." — The Most Reverend Michael B. Curry Sometimes it takes disruption and loss to break us open and call us home to God. It’s not surprising that a global pandemic and once-in-a-generation reckoning with white supremacy—on top of decades of systemic decline—have spurred Christians everywhere to ask who we are, why God placed us here and what difference that makes to the world. In this critical yet loving book, the author explores the American story and the Episcopal story in order to find out how communities steeped in racism, establishment, and privilege can at last fall in love with Jesus, walk humbly with the most vulnerable and embody beloved community in our own broken but beautiful way. The Church Cracked Open invites us to surrender privilege and redefine church, not just for the sake of others, but for our own salvation and liberation.
Author |
: Ted Esler |
Publisher |
: Moody Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 244 |
Release |
: 2021-08-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780802499288 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0802499287 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Innovation Crisis by : Ted Esler
If you aren’t innovating, stagnation isn’t far away. Ministry leaders carry the burden of keeping their organizations lean, focused, and relevant. The stakes are especially high for churches and other organizations that fulfill the Great Commission. When souls are on the line, there’s no room for bureaucratic bloat or sustaining a cumbersome infrastructure. It’s up to the leadership—that’s you—to realize where the organization is in maintenance mode and find ways to innovate even when the growth curve has slowed and the team has started to grow complacent. Using missions disruptor William Carey as an example, Ted Esler shows how you, too, can innovate in ways that change the ministry landscape. Esler will help you keep an eye on your “eccliosystem”—the ecclesial ecosystem in which you exist. You’ll learn about the four stages of organizational culture—disrupting, innovating, sustaining, and stagnating—and gain strategies for staying in that sweet spot where innovations keep coming and stagnation can’t take hold. The gospel of Jesus Christ never grows stale. Don’t let your ministry ever forget it!
Author |
: Edwin Friedman |
Publisher |
: Guilford Press |
Total Pages |
: 335 |
Release |
: 2011-06-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781609182366 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1609182367 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Generation to Generation by : Edwin Friedman
An acclaimed, influential work now available in paper for the first time, this bestselling book applies the concepts of systemic family therapy to the emotional life of congregations. Edwin H. Friedman shows how the same understanding of family process that can aid clergy in their pastoral role also has important ramifications for negotiating congregational dynamics and functioning as an effective leader. Clergy from diverse denominations, as well as family therapists and counselors, have found that this book directly addresses the dilemmas and crises they encounter daily. It is widely used as a text in courses on pastoral care, leadership, and family systems.