transforming your church from the inside out Lewis, Robert 1949 Nov. 24- creator Bird, Warren. Cordeiro, Wayne. text bibliography cau San Francisco, CA Jossey-Bass 2005 1st ed. monographic eng

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xxiii, 227 p. ; 24 cm. "Culture Shift, written for church leaders, ministers, pastors, ministry teams, and lay leaders, leads you through the process of identifying your church's distinctive culture, gives you practical tools to change it from the inside-out, and provides steps to keep your new culture aligned with your church's mission. Real transformation is not abut working harder at what you're already doing or even copying another church's approach but about changing church culture at a foundational level."--BOOK JACKET. Foreword / Erwin Raphael McManus -- PART 1. Awakening to culture: 1. Why culture matters -- 2. Your destiny in seed form -- 3. What you think is what you see -- PART 2. Birthing the culture: 4. Totems : identifying your church's culture -- 5. How to shift your church's culture -- 6. Divine partnership -- PART 3. Growing the culture at New Hope O'ahu: 7. Identifying New Hope's totems -- 8. Culture setters -- 9. Plug-and-play subculture vs. authentic culture -- 10. Creating and re-creating culture -- PART 4. Growing the culture at Fellowship Bible Church: 11. Identifying Fellowship Bible's totems -- 12. The power of a disciplined vision -- 13. Learning to spot opportunity -- 14. Courageous adjustments to safeguard the values -- PART 5. Advancing the culture: 15. Irresistible culture -- Appendix 1. Involvement and satisfaction survey -- Appendix 2. Sample pages from a Life Journal. Robert Lewis, Wayne Cordeiro, with Warren Bird ; foreword by Erwin Raphael McManus. Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-207) and index. Church renewal Christianity and culture BV600.3 .L49 2005 253 9780787975302 (alk. paper) 0787975303 (alk. paper) 2004027928 DLC 041122 20170412125359.0 000026414342 eng