Imagine an organizational model for church leadership that enables the entire team to unleash their full potential. The joy and vigor coming from a collective strength, intelligence, and skill in the community of leaders not only brings greater potency but better yields for your ministry. What would it be like to see this kind of healthy leadership reproduced into the second, third, and fourth generation, on multiple strands Leveraging the metaphor Ori Brafman popularized in his NYT best-selling book, The Starfish and the Spider, Rob Wegner, Lance Ford, and Alan Hirsch show: <ul> <li>How to take a close look at your church's organizational structure and how to adapt instead of simply adopt a certain kind of structural approach.</li> <li>How churches can function without a rigid central authority, making them nimbler in reacting to external forces.</li> <li>How seeding starfish networks inside today's churches will prepare the church of tomorrow to be agile while maintaining the accountability to be effective.</li> </ul> The Starfish and the Spirit is about creating a culture where church leaders view themselves as curators of a community on a mission, not the source of certainty for every question and project. It's about creating a team of humble leaders "in the middle" of the church, not at the top--leaders who naturally reproduce multiple generations of leaders, from the middle out.

The Starfish and the Spirit: Unleashing the Leadership Potential of Churches and Organizations (Exponential Series)

Religion & Spirituality

Ford, Lance

Hirsch, Alan

Wegner, Rob

Christian Books & Bibles

Zondervan

Every person has been designed by God for one-of-a-kind Masterpiece Mission, what most people refer to as personal calling or personal purpose. Everyone needs to be able to name what God has put them on the earth to do. Most people never do. That is a tragedy of epic proportions.
We need a simple way to discover that calling, and Find Your Place is that way. GPS technology is widely known as a way to know where you are on the earth, as well as a way to guide you to get where you want to go. The Find Your Place book will help followers of Jesus locate three signals that will help people discern their personal calling: their Gifts, their Passions, and their Story, and help them take meaningful next steps to engage that calling.
Furthermore, the American Church has a Co-Dependency Disorder. Church members have become dependent upon church leaders, and church leaders need their members to remain that way. This co-dependence is doing more than throttling the vitality of the church...it is strangling it. In order for the people of God to truly thrive and be salt and light in the world, church leaders must move from simply "gathering and teaching" their members to "empowering and releasing them." This book, the accompanying online assessment, and the disciple-making tools that both will be integrated into, will all be a part of a turn-key solution for church leaders to accomplish that goal.

Find Your Place: Locating Your Calling Through Your Gifts, Passions, and Story

Phipps, Brian

The church was never designed to be a fortress for the righteous, but a flood of revolutionaries, bringing the Good News of the Kingdom to broken lives and broken communities. Today, millions of Christians are awakening to the holism of the gospel call, expanding their understanding of mission beyond just touching individual lives to impacting and transforming entire communities with the message of God’s grace.
If this calling toward movement and transformation is to be realized, it will require some earth-shaking shifts―“Missional Moves”―that fundamentally alter our understanding of the church and how its mission is lived out. This book provides a plan of action for your church that will empower you to unleash each member on a mission, both locally and globally.

Missional Moves: 15 Tectonic Shifts that Transform Churches, Communities, and the World (Exponential Series)

Magruder, Jack

Paul wrote Ephesians for the body of Christ to help them discover God’s design for the church and the fullness of the mission God has for every single person He has created.In Made for More: Six Essential Shifts for Creating a Culture of Mobilization, we highlight six key shifts from the book of Ephesians that are necessary to create a healthy culture of mobilization. Shift 1: From More Effort to More JesusShift 2: From More Volunteers to More MasterpiecesShift 3: From More Guilt to Move LoveShift 4: From More Hierarchy to More MissionariesShift 5: From More Programs to More Mission FieldsShift 6: From More Strategy to More Surrender This healthy culture will help church leaders shift their thinking from "volunteerism" to "mobilization."

Made for More: Six Essential Shifts for Creating a Culture of Mobilization

Todd, Wilson

Exponential

Paul wrote Ephesians for the body of Christ to help them discover God's design for the church and the fullness of the mission God has for every single person He has created.In Made for More: Six Essential Shifts for Creating a Culture of Mobilization, the authors highlight six key shifts from the book of Ephesians that are necessary to create a healthy culture of mobilization.<ul><li>Shift 1: From More Effort to More Jesus</li><li>Shift 2: From More Volunteers to More Masterpieces</li><li>Shift 3: From More Guilt to Move Love</li><li>Shift 4: From More Hierarchy to More Missionaries</li><li>Shift 5: From More Programs to More Mission Fields</li><li>Shift 6: From More Strategy to More Surrender This healthy culture will help church leaders shift their thinking from "volunteerism" to "mobilization."</li></ul>

Wilson, Todd

Extraordinary Prayer: Tools, Movements, Microchurches, and the Missionary Pathway (Tools for Equipping Ordinary People on Mission)

JOHNSON, BRIAN

Zondervan on Brilliance Audio

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