| Church Unique: How Missional Leaders Cast Vision, Capture Culture, and Create Movement Contributor(s): Mancini, Will (Author), Lucado, Max (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0787996831 ISBN-13: 9780787996833 Publisher: Jossey-Bass OUR PRICE: $24.30 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2008 Annotation: Discover the tools necessary to transform vision and leadership into missional growth Will Mancini is an expert on a new kind of vision/strategic planning: the movement to make churches more missional, that is, moving them from an internal focus to an emphasis on participating in the culture and their community. His model for vision-casting and church growth has been tested with leaders in all kinds of congregations-mainline, evangelical, small, and large. In this book, he outlines a new model to help churches articulate strategy, become more missional, unpack the baggage of institutionalism, and live into their visions. Will Mancini (Houston, TX), a former pastor, is the founder of Auxano, a national consulting group that works with all kinds of traditional and emerging churches and ministries to help leaders do a more visionary form of strategic planning. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Ministry - Missions - Religion | Christian Ministry - Pastoral Resources - Religion | Leadership |
| Dewey: 253 |
| LCCN: 2007049552 |
| Series: J-B Leadership Network |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.15 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian - Theometrics - Evangelical - Theometrics - Mainline |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Written by church consultant Will Mancini expert on a new kind of visioning process to help churches develop a stunningly unique model of ministry that leads to redemptive movement. He guides churches away from an internal focus to emphasize participation in their community and surrounding culture. In this important book, Mancini offers an approach for rethinking what it means to lead with clarity as a visionary. Mancini explains that each church has a culture that reflects its particular values, thoughts, attitudes, and actions and shows how church leaders can unlock their church's individual DNA and unleash their congregation's one-of-a-kind potential. |