Todd Grant Yonkman

Reconstructing Church (eBook, PDF)

Tools for Turning Your Congregation Around

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The general decline of American mainline Protestant churches today is well documented. Church redevelopment-imagining and actualizing new life for dying churches-is a productive and vital response to congregational decline, but it can be daunting. Here is guidebook for church leaders, to help them reinvigorate their churches with both practical advice and tested theory. A comprehensive case study of Beneficent Congregational Church, which successfully turned the tide and quadrupled its worship attendance, provides inspiration as well as concrete strategies for church redevelopment. The study indicates that successful and faithful church redevelopment involves a shift from a modern-patronage ministry model to a postmodern-plural ministry model. Building on current church redevelopment literature by bringing selected Biblical and theological texts into conversation with leadership concepts, systems theory, social sciences, and congregational studies, this book creates a multidisciplinary transformative conversation. The result is both strategic proposals for growing your church and a model for doing practical theology in your own ministry context. Dedicated, trained leadership in cooperation with the power of the Spirit can create the possibility of new life in dying congregations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216314110
• Artikelnr.: 74843826

Autorenporträt

Todd Grant Yonkman (D. Min) is Senior Co-Minister at the Beneficent Congregational Church in Providence, RI. He received his doctorate of Ministry from Andover Newton Theological School where he was honored as a member of the Jonathan Edwards Society. He's also written for the United Church News. He and his wife and Co-Minister, Nicole, live in Providence, Rhode Island.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1(Re)reading a Redevelopment Context
Chapter 2Sharing Leadership
Chapter 3Conflict and Conversation
Chapter 4Shifting Power
Chapter 5Extending Welcome
Chapter 6Becoming Church
Without Conclusion
Appendix AReport on the Meet the Ministers Study
Appendix BThe Grant Yonkman Co-Pastor Ministry Model
Appendix CRelational Covenant
Appendix DMinistry Partnership Covenant
Notes
Bibliography