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Borderland Churches: A Congregation's Introduction to Missional Living (TCP Leadership Series)
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #586088 in Books
- Published on: 2008-12
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 166 pages
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Leaders Control Change
In his book, Borderland Churches: A Congregation's Introduction to Missional Living, Gary Nelson says the following about the role of leaders in controlling change:
"The only people who like change are usually the ones who are in charge of it. I am convinced that clergy do not totally grasp this truth. We think it is rational and reasonable to embrace change." "Leaders have more control in the changes ahead than their people." [27]
This book looks carefully at the changes that churches on the borderlands of ministry need to make. The borderlands is where true missional action takes places.
The organizing principle of this book is not modern vs. postmodern, but whether or not the church can engage in ministry at the intersection of church, unchurched, and dechurched persons in society, or Christian, unChristian, and anti-Christian.
An excellent book
This is an excellent book. Canada is ahead of the United States on the secularization scale and their experience with being Christians in a post Christian society has much to teach us. The central message is that we must go to the unchurched instead of waiting for them to come to us. Also the central task is doing God's will on earth, not being preoccupied with the afterlife.
