Kenneth Reeves

The Whole Church (eBook, ePUB)

Congregational Leadership Guided by Systems Theory

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Ministry can be challenging, especially when people are behaving badly or escalating conflicts. The Whole Church offers congregational leaders a way to resolve such difficult situations by first viewing the congregation as a whole, then interacting healthily with the congregation, knowing health in one area heals the whole community. The Whole Church offers a way to diagnose the whole congregation, and ways to bring calm, clarify a congregation's identity, create an effective congregational structure, resolve conflicts, handle difficult behavior, motivate change, address unconscious dynamics, and use the sermon all to support the congregation's health and the fulfillment of its spiritual mission.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538127322
• Artikelnr.: 56949543

Autorenporträt

The Rev. Ken Reeves, Ph.D., is an ordained minister and clinical psychologist. He has served congregations as senior pastor, taught courses on leadership and conflict resolution as an adjunct professor at Andover Newton Theological School, offered leadership training workshops for clergy across denominations, conducted psychotherapy, and provided psychological assessment and career counseling for clergy candidates.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Systems Theory
Chapter 2: Diagnosis
Chapter 3: The Healthy Church
Chapter 4: Working on Yourself
Chapter 5: Church Structure
Chapter 6: Calming Them
Chapter 7: Change
Chapter 8: Conflict
Chapter 9: Difficult Behavior
Chapter 10: The Unconscious
Chapter 11: Preaching
Chapter 12: The Spirit
Conclusion
Appendix A: Situations
Appendix B: Self-Definition Exercises
Appendix C: History of Systems Theory
Bibliography
Index
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