Gil Rendle

Quietly Courageous (eBook, ePUB)

Leading the Church in a Changing World

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The changing dynamics of contemporary church life are well-known, but what's less well-known is how leaders can work most effectively in this new context. In Quietly Courageous, esteemed minister and congregational consultant Gil Rendle offers practical guidance to leaders-both lay and ordained-on leading churches today. Rendle encourages leaders to stop focusing on the past and instead focus relentlessly on their mission and purpose-what is ultimately motivating their work. He also urges a shift in perspectives on resources, discusses models of change, and offers suggestions for avoiding common pitfalls and working creatively today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538112915
• Artikelnr.: 56799080

Autorenporträt

Gil Rendle most recently served as senior vice president with The Texas Methodist Foundation in Austin Texas and as an internationally respected independent consultant working with issues of change and leadership in Protestant, Catholic and Jewish denominational systems. Prior to this position he served the Alban Institute as an author, seminar leader and senior consultant for twelve years. An ordained United Methodist minister, Rendle also served as senior pastor of two urban congregations in Pennsylvania and as a denominational consultant for The United Methodist Church. He is the author of ten books, a contributor to four books, and the author of numerous articles and monographs. Recent books include Doing the Math of Mission (2014) and Quietly Courageous: Leading the Church in a Changing World (2018) published by Rowman & Littlefield. He was named as a Distinguished Alumni of the Boston University School of Theology in 2021. Gil is a resident of Haverford, Pennsylvania where he lives with his wife, Lynne.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
PART I: GOOD LEADERSHIP IS NOT ENOUGH
1 Nashon's Quiet Courage
2 The Change That Demands Quiet Courage
PART II: THE ASSUMPTIONS
3 A Word about How: Assumptions about Change
4 A Word about Enough: Assumptions about Resources
5 A Word about Structure and Process: Assumptions about
Fear, Organization, and Democracy
6 A Word about Learning: Assumptions about How
Leadership Is Formed
PART III: THE TEMPTATIONS
7 The Temptation of Playing It Safe: Nostalgia
8 The Temptation of Christian Empathy
9 The Temptation of Tiredness
PART IV: WHERE DO WE START?
10 Telling the Story That Will Get Us through the Wilderness
11 Lessons in Style
Notes
Bibliography
About the Author