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How Your Church Family Works
Understanding Congregations as Emotional Systems
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About this book
Drawing on the work of Bowen, Friedman, and his own many years' counseling experience, Peter Steinke shows how to recognize and deal with the emotional roots of such issues as church conflict, leadership roles, congregational change, irresponsible behavior, and the effect of family of origin on current relationships. Discover why working relationships may be "stuck" in certain behaviors. Psychologically sound, theologically grounded, and practically illustrated with case studies, How Your Church Family Works will help you better understand how your congregation works and how to keep it healthy. Featuring a new preface and a fresh redesign, the book is a classic work by one of the most respected names in congregational consulting.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface 2006
- Preface 1993
- Acknowledgments
- Part 1: Conceptualizing Emotional Processes
- The Concept of a System
- Anxiety and Reactivity
- Separateness and Closeness
- Stability and Change
- Clarity and Compassion
- Part 2: The Congregation as an Emotional System
- Do Not Go Gently into That Glob of Glue
- Being a Prophet Is Nice Work—If You Can Find a Job
- What Shall It Profit a Parish If It Gets over the Hump but Falls into the Abyss?
- Remembering the Future
- Believing and Belonging
- Bibliography