The Emerging Church: A Model for Change & Map for RenewalWood Lake Publishing Inc. - 224 pages Realizing the importance of creating a practical guide for both ministers and congregations seeking to shift their congregational culture towards a progressive form of Christianity, Bruce Sanguin grounds The Emerging Church in the experience of his own congregation, Canadian Memorial United, as way to establish context and to share real-life examples. At the same time, he peppers the book with insights from leading edge science, including the science of emergence, chaos theory, quantum physics, field theory, spiral dynamics, and evolutionary science. Download the spiral dynamics charts Spiral Dynamics Chart and Spiral Dynamics by Don Beck. Written in language lay people can understand, The Emerging Church is filled with no-nonsense, realistic advice on the pitfalls and possibilities of following the vision of the emerging Christian way. Nudged by an evolutionary Spirit and drawn by the love of Christ into an emerging future, the church of the loving and living Christ may be the "best kept secret of our day." In The Emerging Church, Bruce Sanguin shares "the secret" with anyone and everyone willing to listen. |
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... Leadership ...................129 Core capacities – stillness through meditation, theological reflection, compassion; defining leadership chapter ten The Too Heavy Task: The Perils of Pastoral Visitation ............................143 ...
... leaders, both lay and clergy, who are ready to act as guides on this journey of congregational renewal. Sometimes I slip into addressing clergy more directly. When this happens, I hope that the lay reader will enjoy overhearing the ...
... leadership models to emerge. The challenge is to develop congregational cultures and structures that are congruent with this emergent dynamic. This will entail shifting from cultures of command and control to cultures of self ...
... leaders, and if they betray that trust there are mechanisms for removing them from leadership. Think about authentic democracy as being about developing models of governance and ways of being together that ensure every single person ...
... leaders as the ones who will collectively take a high-level view of the life of your congregation. When I arrived at Canadian Memorial, I was told that they had been through a visioning process. They had binders filled with the results ...