The Innovative Church: Seven Steps to Positive Change in Your CongregationMany pastors and lay leaders see that congregations need to change in order to carry out their mission, yet often attempts at change are resisted and blocked. |
Contents
Task Forces | 41 |
Part | 57 |
Unite around Needs | 78 |
Use the Input of Legitimizers | 117 |
Rally Broad Ownership | 132 |
10 | 158 |
The Innovation Study | 168 |
Notes | 176 |
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The Innovative Church: Seven Steps to Positive Change in Your Congregation Merton P. Strommen No preview available - 1997 |
Common terms and phrases
adults approach asked become Bible study Christ cluster commitment committee congregation congregation's constituencies creative culture denominations develop Diffusion of Innovations efforts Emotional Intelligence encouraged established evaluating Everett Rogers evidence factors faith feel Fifth Discipline five focus goals God's gregation groupthink ideas identify important included inno Innovation Study innovative activity introduce involved launching learning legitimizers Lutheran Church meet membership ment ministry motivated needed change obstacles opinion leadership opinion makers organization organizational parochial schools participate pastor people's percent person Peter Senge prayer proposed innovation Purpose Driven Church questions resistance response result Rick Warren role Ronald Lippitt scales Search Institute secular sense of mission serve showed SIDEBAR significant Southern Baptist Convention spiritual staff stance steps Strommen style of leadership survey task force teachers tend tion TLC group values vision worship youth group
References to this book
Across the Generations Roland Martinson,David W. Anderson,Nathan Frambach,Paul Hill,Dick Hardel,Diane E. Shallue,Peggy Contos No preview available - 2001 |