The missional church and leadership formation :

The missional church and leadership formation : helping congregations develop leadership capacity / edited by Craig Van Gelder. - Grand Rapids, MI : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2009. - x, 238 p. ; pbk ; 22 cm. - Missional church series .

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction : Engaging the missional church conversation –
Section 1. Missional Leadership Formation in Relation to Theological Education.
Theological education and missional leadership formation : can seminaries prepare missional leaders for congregations? / Craig Van Gelder --
Missional theology for schools of theology : re-engaging the question "What is theological about a theological school?" / Kyle J.A. Small --
Developing evangelical public leadership for apostolic witness : a missional alternative to traditional pastoral formation / Richard H. Bliese --
Section 2. Missional Leadership Formation in Relation to Congregations.
Cultivating missional leaders : mental models and the ecology of vocation / Scott Cormode --
Forming lay missional leaders for congregations and the world / Sharon Henderson Callahan --
Vision-discerning vs. vision-casting : how shared vision can raise up communities of leaders rather than mere leaders of communities / Dave Daubert --
Section 3. Missiional Leadership Formation in Relation to Recent Research.
Characteristics of congregations that empower missional leadership : a Lutheran voice / Terri Martinson Elton --
Leadership and the missional church conversation : listening in on what leaders in four denominational systems have to say / Kristine M. Stache.


9780802864932 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2009026541


Mission of the church--Congresses.
Christian leadership--Congresses.

BV601.8 / .M5945 2007

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