The Externally Focused Quest
Becoming the Best Church for the Community
Published on 17. March 2010
272 pages
978-0-470-60287-4 (ISBN)
Description
A practical approach for leaders to guide their congregations tobecome more externally focused
The Externally Focused Quest: Becoming the Best Church forthe Community is designed for church leaders who want totransform their churches to become less internally focused and moreoriented to the world around them. The book includes the clearguidelines on the ten changes congregations must adopt to becometruly outwardly focused. This book is not about getting allchurches to have an annual day of community service as a tactic butchanging the core of who they are and how they see themselves as apart of their community.
* Outlines the ten changes needed for church leaders to transformtheir churches
* Presents a highly practical approach that shows leaders how tobecome more externally focused without having to give up programsthat serve members
* A new volume in the popular Leadership Network Series
This book reveals what it takes to make the major shift from aninternal to external focus and how that affects churchleadership.
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Persons
ERIC SWANSON is a missional leadership specialist with Leadership Network, leading initiatives with externally focused churches that are missionally engaging their communities, cities, and the world. With Rick Rusaw he is the cofounder of the Externally Focused Network.
RICK RUSAW is the senior pastor at LifeBridge Christian Church and an innovative leader, speaker, author, and trainer. With Eric he is the cofounder of the Externally Focused Network.
Eric Swanson and Rick Rusaw are coauthors of The Externally Focused Church and The Externally Focused Life. They frequently speak and train at seminars and conferences on missional/externally focused churches.
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Content
About Leadership Network.
Acknowledgments
Foreword (Alan Hirsch).
Introduction.
Chapter 1: What Kind of Day Is Today?
Chapter 2: Focus: They Choose the Window Seat, Not the AisleSeat.
Chapter 3: Purpose: They Practice Weight Training, NotBodybuilding.
Chapter 4: Story: They Live in the Kingdom Story, Not a ChurchStory.
Chapter 5: Missions: The Few Send the Many, Not the Many Sendthe Few.
Chapter 6: Partnering: They Build Wells, Not Walls.
Chapter 7: Systems: They Create Paradigms, Not Programs.
Chapter 8: Evangelism: They Deploy Kingdom Laborers, Not SocialWorkers.
Chapter 9: Creativity: They Innovate, Not Replicate.
Chapter 10: Outcomes: It's About the Game, Not the PregameTalk.
Notes.
The Authors.
