Creating a Missional Culture
eBook - ePub

Creating a Missional Culture

Equipping the Church for the Sake of the World

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Creating a Missional Culture

Equipping the Church for the Sake of the World

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Foreword
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction
  7. Part One
  8. 1 What Is Missional Culture and Why Does It Matter?
  9. 2 How Culture Works
  10. 3 What’s Going On in the Culture of the Church You Serve
  11. 4 Polycentric Leadership and Missional Culture
  12. Part Two
  13. 5 Facing Today's Challenges
  14. 6 Hearing the Story
  15. 7 Deepening Theological Roots
  16. 8 Embracing Emotional Health
  17. 9 Relinquishing the Need to Control
  18. Part Three
  19. 10 Jesus the Archetypical Culture Creator
  20. 11 Apostles
  21. 12 Prophets
  22. 13 Evangelists
  23. 14 Pastors
  24. 15 Teachers
  25. Part Four
  26. 16 The Cultural Web and the Neighborhood Church
  27. 17 Cultivating Missional Environments
  28. 18 Cultivating in Equipping Ethos
  29. 19 Polycentric Leadership at Work
  30. Appendix 1
  31. Appendix 2
  32. Appendix 3
  33. Notes
  34. About the Author
  35. Endorsements