
Missional Map-Making
Skills for Leading in Times of Transition
Alan Roxburgh(Author)
Jossey-Bass (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 5. March 2010
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-470-48672-6 (ISBN)
Description
Guidance for church leaders to develop their own maps and chart new paths toward stronger, more vibrant, and more missional congregations
In the burgeoning missional church movement, churches are seeking to become less focused on programs for members and more oriented toward outreach to people who are not already in church. This fundamental shift in what a congregation is and does and thinks is challenging for leaders and congregants. Using the metaphor of map-making, the book explains the perspective and skills needed to lead congregations and denominations in a time of radical change over unfamiliar terrain as churches change their focus from internal to external.
Offers a clear guide for leaders wanting to transition to a missional church model
Written by Alan Roxburgh, a prominent expert and practitioner in the missional movement
Guides leaders seeking to create new maps for leadership and church organization and focus
A Volume in the popular Leadership Network Series
This book is written to be accessible to all Christian congregational styles and denominations.
In the burgeoning missional church movement, churches are seeking to become less focused on programs for members and more oriented toward outreach to people who are not already in church. This fundamental shift in what a congregation is and does and thinks is challenging for leaders and congregants. Using the metaphor of map-making, the book explains the perspective and skills needed to lead congregations and denominations in a time of radical change over unfamiliar terrain as churches change their focus from internal to external.
Offers a clear guide for leaders wanting to transition to a missional church model
Written by Alan Roxburgh, a prominent expert and practitioner in the missional movement
Guides leaders seeking to create new maps for leadership and church organization and focus
A Volume in the popular Leadership Network Series
This book is written to be accessible to all Christian congregational styles and denominations.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
487 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-470-48672-6 (9780470486726)
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Person
ALAN J. ROXBURGH, president of Roxburgh Missional Network, is a pastor, teacher, writer, and consultant with more than thirty years' experience in church leadership, consulting, and seminary education. He also works with the Allelon Missional Leadership Network in the formation of leaders for the missional church. He writes a weekly online newsletter (roxburghmis sionalnet.com) as well as directing an international research project, the Mission in Western Culture Project. He the coauthor of The Missional Leader from Jossey-Bass.
Content
About Leadership Network vii
Introduction: An Uncertain Journey ix
Part One When Maps No Longer Work 1
Chapter One Maps Shaping Our Imaginations in Modernity 3
Chapter Two Leading in an In-Between Time 19
Chapter Three When Common Sense is No Longer Common 41
Chapter Four From Playing Pool to Herding Cats 59
Chapter Five Why Strategic Planning Doesn't Work in This New Space and Doesn't Fit God's Purposes 73
Chapter Six Eight Currents of Change and the Challenge of Making New Maps 87
Chapter Seven Lessons from the Formation of the Internet for Leading in This New Space 111
Part Two The Map-Making Process 125
Chapter Eight Cultivating a Core Identity in a Changed Environment 127
Chapter Nine Cultivating Parallel Cultures of the Kingdom 143
Chapter Ten Map-Making Partnerships Between a Local Church and Neighborhoods and Communities 163
Notes 189
The Author 196
Index 197
Introduction: An Uncertain Journey ix
Part One When Maps No Longer Work 1
Chapter One Maps Shaping Our Imaginations in Modernity 3
Chapter Two Leading in an In-Between Time 19
Chapter Three When Common Sense is No Longer Common 41
Chapter Four From Playing Pool to Herding Cats 59
Chapter Five Why Strategic Planning Doesn't Work in This New Space and Doesn't Fit God's Purposes 73
Chapter Six Eight Currents of Change and the Challenge of Making New Maps 87
Chapter Seven Lessons from the Formation of the Internet for Leading in This New Space 111
Part Two The Map-Making Process 125
Chapter Eight Cultivating a Core Identity in a Changed Environment 127
Chapter Nine Cultivating Parallel Cultures of the Kingdom 143
Chapter Ten Map-Making Partnerships Between a Local Church and Neighborhoods and Communities 163
Notes 189
The Author 196
Index 197