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 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : Engaging the missional church conversation – <br/>Section 1. Missional Leadership Formation in Relation to Theological Education.<br/>Theological education and missional leadership formation : can seminaries prepare missional leaders for congregations? / Craig Van Gelder --<br/>Missional theology for schools of theology : re-engaging the question "What is theological about a theological school?" / Kyle J.A. Small --<br/>Developing evangelical public leadership for apostolic witness : a missional alternative to traditional pastoral formation / Richard H. Bliese --<br/> Section 2. Missional Leadership Formation in Relation to Congregations.<br/>Cultivating missional leaders : mental models and the ecology of vocation / Scott Cormode --<br/>Forming lay missional leaders for congregations and the world / Sharon Henderson Callahan --<br/>Vision-discerning vs. vision-casting : how shared vision can raise up communities of leaders rather than mere leaders of communities / Dave Daubert --<br/> Section 3. Missiional Leadership Formation in Relation to Recent Research.<br/>Characteristics of congregations that empower missional leadership : a Lutheran voice / Terri Martinson Elton --<br/>Leadership and the missional church conversation : listening in on what leaders in four denominational systems have to say / Kristine M. Stache.<br/> 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780802864932 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009026541 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mission of the church--Congresses.<br/>Christian leadership--Congresses.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BV601.8  / .M5945 2007 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>262/.7