The Present Future E-Book

Reggie McNeal

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Serie: J-B Leadership Network Series
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2009

Seitenzahl: 266

Beschreibung

In this provocative book, author, consultant, and church leadership developer Reggie McNeal debunks these and other old assumptions and provides an overall strategy to help church leaders move forward in an entirely different and much more effective way. In The Present Future, McNeal identifies the six most important realities that church leaders must address including: recapturing the spirit of Christianity and replacing "church growth" with a wider vision of kingdom growth; developing disciples instead of church members; fostering the rise of a new apostolic leadership; focusing on spiritual formation rather than church programs; and shifting from prediction and planning to preparation for the challenges of an uncertain world. McNeal contends that by changing the questions church leaders ask themselves about their congregations and their plans, they can frame the core issues and approach the future with new eyes, new purpose, and new ideas.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Cover

Title

Copyright

Leadership Network Titles

Dedication

About Leadership Network

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

New Reality Number One: The Collapse of the Church Culture

All Is Not Well

The World Has Ended

Wrong Question

Wrong Responses

Tough Question

A Theology of Mission

The Beginning of a Movement

New Reality Number Two: The Shift from Church Growth to Kingdom Growth

Rights and Wrong

Jesus Versus the Pharisees

Pharisees Are Alive and Well and Coming to Your Church (And They May Be You!)

Kingdom Thinking

Twenty-First Century Evangelism and Apologetics

The Challenge of Grace

New Reality Number Three: A New Reformation: Releasing God’s People

The Need for Missiology

The Modern World

The Postmodern World

Enter the Church?

A Missionary Movement

Warning! Warning!

Changing the Scorecard

New Reality Number Four: The Return to Spiritual Formation

Lessons from the Y

Benefits of Life Coaching for Spiritual Growth

An Agenda for Spiritual Formation

“School” in the Emerging World

New Reality Number Five: The Shift from Planning to Preparation

Vision

Values

Results

Strengths

Learnings

New Reality Number Six: The Rise of Apostolic Leadership

Past-Present Leadership Motifs

The Emergence of Apostolic Leadership

A Balanced Leadership Diet

Resource Development

A Leadership Learning Community

Things I Didn’t Say

It’s Over for the Church

We Need a Postmodern Church

Christianity and Spirituality Are the Same

There Are Ways to God Besides Jesus

All Churches Should Be Contemporary

Bible Study Is Not Important

I Am Against Planning

These Shifts Will Be Easy

The Situation Is Hopeless

Conclusion

References

The Author

A New Resource for Churches from Reggie McNeal

End User License Agreement

Guide

Cover

Table of Contents

Begin Reading

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The Present Future

Six Tough Questions for the Church

Reggie McNeal

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataMcNeal, Reggie.The present future : six tough questions for the church / Reggie McNeal.—1st ed.p. cm.ISBN 978-0-7879-6568-6 (alk. paperISBN 978-0-4704-5315-5 (paperback)1. Church renewal—United States. I. Title.BV600.3.M36 2003262'.001'7—dc21

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To the new tribe;

you know who you are.

May your tribe increase!

There’s a world counting on you.