Leadership and Missional Imagination
Wherever we go…working with congregations and denominational systems, we have come to one important conclusion about what is essential for the formation of missional congregations and denominational systems at this point in time - we need a new approach to leadership. In meetings with pastoral teams and denominational executives we come away, time after time, with this pressing sense that the tools and resources being used by leaders in the church today will never address the critical issues of rapid, discontinuous change pressing against the church without first addressing the question of leadership. Our conviction is that the role of leadership within the church is to cultivate environments wherein the Spirit of God might call forth and unleash the missional imagination of the people of God.
(from a soon to be published book by Alan Roxburgh and Fred Romanuk):
January 31st, 2004 at 10:38 pm
Phil, I like that. Very timely too. Is the title of the book “Leadership and Missional Imagination” Have you seen a copy? Good?
February 1st, 2004 at 8:21 am
Hi Paul, I haven’t seen a copy yet but I will try and track one down. The quote came to me in an email about the unfreeze seminar we having with Fred and Alan in Feb.
February 2nd, 2004 at 9:02 am
Will be released later this year apparently.
February 2nd, 2004 at 2:14 pm
why not go back to the Bible.
In the Pastorals therte is an explicit analogy made between managing the household ( in this instance wife and discplined chioldren) and managing the church.
A good start for Leadership but no denomination follows it not even ‘bible based’ ones.
Strange that.