Creating a missional culture : equipping the church for the sake of the world /

Missiologist and church planter JR Woodward offers a roadmap for the missional church--not small adjustments around the periphery of the infrastructure but a radical revisioning of how a church ought to look that entails changing how we think about leadership and what we expect out of discipleship.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Woodward, J. R., 1963-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Downers Grove, IL : IVP Books, ©2012.
Series:Praxis.
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Table of Contents:
  • Power of culture
  • What is missional culture and why does it matter?
  • How culture works
  • What's going on in the culture of the church you serve?
  • Polycentric leadership and missional culture
  • Leadership imagination that shapes missional culture
  • Facing today's challenges
  • Hearing the story
  • Deepening theological roots
  • Embracing emotional health
  • Relinquishing the need to control
  • Five culture creators
  • Jesus the archetypical culture creator
  • Apostles: dream awakeners
  • Prophets: heart revealers
  • Evangelists: story tellers
  • Pastors: soul healers
  • Teachers: light givers
  • Embodying a missional culture
  • Cultural web and the neighborhood church
  • Cultivating missional environments
  • Cultivating an equipping ethos
  • Polycentric leadership at work
  • Equippers and their roles
  • Equipper candidate reference form
  • Equipper candidate interview.