SUCCESSION OR MULTIPLICATION? (EBOOK)

TRANSITIONING A MOVEMENT TO NEXT GENERATION LEADERSHIP

DAVID DEVENISH

• Publisher: Authentic Media
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781788931557
• eBook ISBN: 9781788931557
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Church

David Devenish provides help and advice on how to deal with a change in church leadership and enable new leadership teams.How do you transition from a first generation movement under one founder leader to becoming a second generation movement with a multiple leadership?This question has now become a particular challenge for many fresh movements of churches, and it can prove to be a difficult and daunting one. David Devenish tells the story of how Newfrontiers tackled this issue, and how they successfully transitioned to next generation leadership through multiplication of leadership teams rather than appointing a successor, while still maintaining ministry accountability.Combining practical lessons with academic study, Devenish brings a wealth of experience, insight, and guidance that will prove invaluable to other movements embarking on a similar journey.Content Benefits: The issue of leadership succession has become a particular challenge for many fresh movements of churches which started as a result of the faith step of a particular founder, and who are now having to move to the next generation of leadership, whilst maintaining the same demonstration of missional and charismatic life. In this book you will learn practical lessons to transition from a first generation movement under one founder leader to becoming a second generation movement with a multiple leadership.Many new church movements are now approaching this challenge and this book provides help and advice on how to deal with thisTransitioning leadership can be difficult and this book helps find a way through based on experienceProvides practical lessons that can be used by other movementsDraws on academic studies of movements within the Christian worldOffers a robust theology for this emerging issueApplicable to all new church streams and movements, or churches pioneered by one founderRecounts the recent history of NewfrontiersContinues the story of Newfrontiers started in No Well-Worn Paths by Terry VirgoIdeal for any one looking at leadership in the churchAuthor is a respected church leader with many years of experience in ministry and apostolic teams

Table of contents

• Cover
• Review
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Copyright Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Foreword by John Mumford
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Why This Book?
• 2 Pruning Leads to Growth
• 3 Foundational Developments 2001–11
• 4 Training for Apostolic Ministry
• 5 Succession Becomes an Issue
• 6 The Way Ahead
• 7 The Big Moment in the History of a Movement – Brighton 2011
• 8 The Early Years after Transition – Release and Pain
• 9 The New Definition of a Movement
• Appendix to Chapter 9
• 10 Movements and Transition – A Wider View
• 11 Contextualization for a Global Movement
• 12 Continued Multiplication of Apostolic Ministry
• 13 The Need for Accountability
• 14 A Vision for Continued Togetherness
• 15 Best Practices for Working Together
• 16 Coaching Apostolic Teams
• 17 Transition Issues in Local Churches
• 18 We Will All Transition!
• Notes