Understanding Your Congregation As A System The Manual

Author : George D. Parsons,Speed B. Leas
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1994-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781566996877

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Understanding Your Congregation as a System by George D. Parsons,Speed B. Leas Pdf

Parsons and Leas have created an important tool for congregational leaders in this application of systems theory to evaluating a congregation’s life and readiness for change. Church leaders can explore the forces at work and examine the systemic implications in seven key areas: strategy, process, pastoral and lay leadership, authority, relatedness, and learning. The Manual provides an overview of systems theory, complete instructions for administering and scoring the Congregational Systems Inventory (CSI), and guidance for interpreting and explaining the inventory results using sample scores. The Congregational Systems Inventory is a survey designed to sample the perspectives of church staff, governing board, and key lay leaders. Be sure to order some packs of the CSI along with this valuable resource.

Author : George Parsons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Church management
ISBN : OCLC:1245906897

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Understanding Your Congregation as a System by George Parsons Pdf

Author : George Parsons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Church management
ISBN : OCLC:703020049

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Understanding Your Congregation as a System: The manual by George Parsons Pdf

Author : Roy M. Oswald,Robert E. Friedrich
Publisher : Alban Institute
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781566991742

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Discerning Your Congregation's Future by Roy M. Oswald,Robert E. Friedrich Pdf

Author : Peter L. Steinke
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781566995511

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How Your Church Family Works by Peter L. Steinke Pdf

Drawing on the work of Bowen and Friedman, and on his own many years of counseling experience, Peter Steinke shows how to recognize and deal with the emotional roots of such issues as church conflict, leadership roles, congregational change, irresponsible behavior, and the effects of family of origin on current relationships.

Author : Timothy D. Son
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780739183113

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Ritual Practices in Congregational Identity Formation by Timothy D. Son Pdf

Ritual Practices in Congregational Identity Formation investigates the educational roles of ritual practices in the process of congregational identity formation. Son identifies and analyzes various kinds of Christian rituals with respect to how rituals influence the formational processes of a congregation’s identity. Based on Victor Turner’s ritual theory, this book also investigates the pedagogical and transformative efficacies of ritual practices within the dynamics of congregational education.

Author : Joseph E. Bush Jr.
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498282758

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Practical Theology in Church and Society by Joseph E. Bush Jr. Pdf

The church exists in the world, and our ministry is inextricably social in nature. Practical theology takes this seriously and asks us to reflect on our practice of ministry in both church and society. This book attends to our practice as individuals in ministry, to our corporate practice as congregations in ministry, and to our practice as Christians within the wider social and natural world. Practical Theology in Church and Society brings into sharper focus two perspectives on practical theology. One is the view through the wide-angle lens of justice-oriented action, which hopes for liberation. This view encompasses a broad vista of social forces for justice and injustice when evaluating local movements and local ministries. The other perspective takes the narrower focus of the action-reflection model as it is used to zoom in on individual actions and particular practices of ministry such as pastoral care. The purpose of the book is to integrate these two perspectives on practical theology. It explicates a cyclical method for doing theology that has corollaries within the disciplines of practical theology, liberation theology, missiology, congregation studies, and ministerial leadership. The volume provides resources for developing more socially and ecologically engaged ministries, and it draws implications for ministerial education.

Author : Richard R. Osmer
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467438124

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Practical Theology by Richard R. Osmer Pdf

Every church congregation encounters challenging situations, some the same the world over, and others specific to each church. Richard Osmer here seeks to teach congregational leaders -- including, but not limited to, clergy -- the requisite knowledge and skills to meet such situations with sensitivity and creativity. Osmer develops a framework for practical theological interpretation in congregations by focusing on four key questions: What is going on in a given context? Why is this going on? What ought to be going on? and How might the leader shape the context to better embody Christian witness and mission? The book is unique in its attention to interdisciplinary issues and the ways that theological reflection is grounded in the spirituality of leaders. Useful, accessible, and lively -- with lots of specific examples and case studies -- Osmer‘s Practical Theology effectively equips congregational leaders to guide their communities with theological integrity.

Author : Joseph Earl Bush
Publisher : Chalice Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 082721264X

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Gentle Shepherding by Joseph Earl Bush Pdf

Named "One of the Top Ten Books for Parish Clergy" for the year 2006 by the Academy of Parish Clergy! Gentle Shepherding offers a rare balance in an introduction to pastoral ethics, one that identifies deeply with the pastoral vocation and brings it into conversation with a developed body of ethical theory. The goal of the book is to equip seminarians and pastors with conceptual resources for clarifying moral responsibility in the practice of ministry. This responsibility includes three levels: the minister as a moral agent in offering care; the minister as a moral enabler in encouraging virtue in others; and the minister as a moral leader in facilitating congregational life and witness in society. Helping ministers and seminarians to think anew about their responsibilities and the moral quandaries in pastoral practice, Gentle Shepherding integrates theory with practice, providing case material for further reflection and discussion and at least one case study or exercise associated with each chapter.

Author : Peter L. Steinke
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781538149140

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How Your 21st-Century Church Family Works by Peter L. Steinke Pdf

The first edition of How Your Church Family Works was written nearly thirty years ago, and the reach and velocity of change in the last three decades poses a new challenge for churches. Thirty years ago, churches functioned in a fairly stable environment and focused on growth an expansion. The tide has turned now, though, and supplanted increase with decline. Bowen family systems theory—on which How Your Church Family Works is based—has not changed, but its application has to be revised for the twenty-first century. How Your 21st-Century Church Family Works, the second edition of Peter Steinke’s landmark book, addresses the radically altered landscape of church sustainability with new introductory and concluding chapters bookending updates throughout the now-classic text. Core chapters of the book feature fresh examples of emotional process that are more exemplary of the current scene. One key addition is a new trigger of anxiety for churches—the change process. Change threatens the familiar and stable and suffers from negative connotations of endangering tradition. Where gradual change has been the norm for so long, churches now see a blistering pace of disruptions, some of which have forced change too early or too late, or sometimes in unproductive directions. How Your 21st-Century Church family works embraces the anxiety caused by change, transforming it from a source of anguish to a font of opportunity.

Author : Celia Allison Hahn
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1994-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781566995405

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Growing in Authority, Relinquishing Control by Celia Allison Hahn Pdf

Contents include: I. What is authority? and Where do you get it? II. Patterns of Growth in Authority III. Practical Dilemmas in the Exercise of Authority IV. Authority in Different Voices V. The Paradoxical Authority of Laity and Clergy VI. Growing in Authority, Being the Church

Author : Robert J. Banks,R. Paul Stevens
Publisher : Regent College Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1573832944

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The Marketplace Ministry Handbook by Robert J. Banks,R. Paul Stevens Pdf

Work has become for many people the central reference point in their lives and the main consumer of their time and energy. Whether people have much or little money is what much of life revolves around. There is an implicit theology in everyone's attitude to and handling of work. This book looks at the relationship between God and the marketplace, at work as a spiritual discipline, and at how to handle some of the main pressures and dilemmas that arise in a work setting. The combined wisdom of dozens of experts makes this volume a great place to start thinking about how Christians should approach subjects such as: . ADVERTISING . BUSINESS ETHICS . COMPETITION . COMPROMISE . CONTRACTS . CREDIT. DEBT . FIRING . GOSSIP . INSURANCE . INTEGRITY . INVESTMENT . LEADERSHIP . LOYALTY . MANAGEMENT . NEGOTIATING . NETWORKING . OFFICE POLITICS . PROMOTION . RETIREMENT . SHIFTWORK . STEWARDSHIP . STRESS . STRIKES . UNIONS . VOLUNTEER WORK . WHISTLE-BLOWING R. Paul Stevens is the David J. Brown Family Professor of Marketplace Theology and Leadership at Regent College in Vancouver and the author of many books on marriage, work and everyday life. His many books include The Other Six Days, Liberating the Laity, Marriage Spirituality, Living the Story and Down-to-Earth Spirituality. Robert Banks is past director and dean of Macquarie Christian Studies Institute in Sydney, Australia. He has written widely on work, community, and popular culture, including The Tyranny of Time and Redeeming the Routines.

Author : Carol F. Krau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0881772488

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Keeping in Touch by Carol F. Krau Pdf

Krau describes 5 processes essential to every teacher or small-group leader: 1. Experiencing God through the means of grace; 2. Listening to the deep yearnings of others; 3. Reflecting on personal experience in the light of Scripture and Christian tradition; 4. Participating in ministry/mission; 5. Building knowledge and skills for discipleship.

Author : Donal Godfrey
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04
Category : Church work with gay people
ISBN : 9780739119389

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Gays and Grays by Donal Godfrey Pdf

Most Holy Redeemer Parish in San Francisco is in the center of the world's first gay neighborhood, The Castro, and was the center of the hostility to the arriving gay population in the 1970s. Author Father Donal Godfrey shows how, over time, the old time parishioners, or "the gray," bonded with the new comers, "the gay," particularly in a joint compassionate response to the crisis of AIDS. Most Holy Redeemer was changed from a dying parish to a vital place where gay and straight people together created something new.

Author : Barbara Child
Publisher : Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1558963375

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The Shared Ministry Sourcebook by Barbara Child Pdf