Missional Map-Making: Skills for Leading in Times of Transition
About this ebook
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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About the author
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.
