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Moving Beyond Church Growth

An Alternative Vision for Congregations
  • ISBN-13: 9780806643465
  • Publisher: 1517 MEDIA
    Imprint: AUGSBURG BOOKS
  • Translated by Mark A. Olson
  • Price: AUD $38.99
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  • Local release date: 18/02/2002
  • Format: Paperback (203.00mm X 152.00mm) 156 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Christian institutions & organizations [HRCX]
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Character development for communities of faithMark Olson believes that trying to meet unrealistic expectations for church growth, along with expectations that pastors be all things to all people, has resulted in low morale, even burnout, among clergy and dissension within congregations. Olson's book argues that church-growth models exemplify and exacerbate the tendencies of the modern age and Constantinian Christianity, holding the church hostage to technique and marketing. These assumptions set up pastors and churches for disappointment and failure. But they also, in his opinion, miss an opportunity to envision a faithful alternative to the consumeristic church. Olson's valuable book calls church leaders to faithful, bold, and courageous rethinking of congregational life and witness in substance, purpose, and style. His own 20 years of ministry in rural, suburban, and urban congregations inform an alternative rooted deeply in the past and anchored in strong leadership and worship, but also profoundly compassionate and engaged in the surrounding community. In this model, pastors' primary responsibilities are not to fix everything and everybody but to enable people to be present to each other and to provide hope.
Marc A. Olson is Pastor of Hope Lutheran Church in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, author of The Evangelical Pastor and An Evangelizing People and founder and director of the Center for Congregational Leadership.
Introduction Part One: What Is Church Growth? Putting the Pieces Together: Toward a Definition of Church Growth Echoes of an Ancient Conflict Part Two: First Steps Beyond Church Growth A Congregational Faith Audit Deprogramming the Church Reclaiming the Sabbath: One Text at a Time Drawing the Line: Reflections on Church Growth and Worship Part Three: Pastoral Leadership Beyond Church Growth To Be a Change Agent: Be a Traditional Pastor with a Twist Congregational Conflict: Sacred Violence Each Congregation: One Pastor Recovering the Ministerium: A Congregation for Pastors Part Four: Christian Communities of the Future Faithful Community: A Creation Myth The Island of Faithfulness Afterword Notes
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