Back to Zero: The Search to Rediscover the Methodist Movement (Adaptive Leadership) - Tapa blanda

Rendle, Gil

 
9781426740398: Back to Zero: The Search to Rediscover the Methodist Movement (Adaptive Leadership)
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ISBN 10: 1426740395 ISBN 13: 9781426740398
Editorial: Abingdon Press, 2012

Sinopsis

The lifeblood of the United Methodist is passion rather than organizational neatness, entrepreneurial freedom rather than denominational restraint, and agility rather than staid institutional dependence. But if United Methodists want to change and be the church we say we want to be, what must we risk and how can we challenge current practices? At the heart of becoming a spiritual movement once again is the requirement that we develop a new understanding of connection as Christians and as United Methodists. We are currently at a time in which United Methodists are reinventing denominational connectionalism. One way of framing the issue is to distinguish between members and disciples, or consumers (those who wait for the institution to care for their needs) and citizens (those who are willing to commit themselves to and be held accountable for the whole of the community). United Methodism has nurtured generations of leaders and congregations that see themselves as consumers of the resources and attention of the denomination. The impulse toward movement is challenging spiritually purposeful leaders and congregations to risk becoming citizens who fully expect to make a difference in the lives of individuals and also in the world through an encounter with Christ.

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Gil Rendle serves as Senior Consultant with The Institute for Clergy and Congregational Excellence of The Texas Methodist Foundation in Austin, Texas, and as an independent consultant working with issues of change and leadership in denominations. An ordained United Methodist minister, Rendle served as senior pastor of two urban congregations in Pennsylvania for sixteen years and as a denominational consultant for The United Methodist Church for nine years. In training workshops and conferences, Rendle has led

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Editorial
Abingdon Press
Año de publicación
2012
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1426740395
ISBN 13 
9781426740398
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
112
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