Table of contents
Empowering Your Church Through Creativity and Change
These books, originally published by Leadership Journal, offer deep dives on pressing issues of ministry and leadership from veteran ministry experts like Eugene Peterson, Fred Smith, Marshall Shelley, and others.
- Introduction
- Courage for the Doubting Pastor
- The Well-Fed Imagination
- Let There Be Wit and Wisdom–Weekly
- Raising Your Creativity Quotient
- Handing Your Baby to Barbarians
- Growing Conditions
- Adapting to Your Church’s Environment
- Breathing Life into the Traditional Church
- Leading from a Cramped Position
- Major Ministry on Modest Means
- “Lean Resources, Robust Worship”
- Salvaging a Sinking Ship
- Making Creativity Comfortable
- My Greatest Ministry Mistakes
- Preparing to Leave
- Before You Risk
- Getting the Information You Need
- The Art of the Start
- The Insider’s Guide to Making Changes
- Nine Options in a Changing Neighborhood
- When Not to Build
- Granting Permission to Succeed
- Harnessing People Power
- High-Stakes Gamble
- Getting Older and Wiser
- Growing Pains
- Following a Beloved Predecessor
- Picking Up the Pieces
- Making the Right Moves
Besides death and taxes there is one sure thing in life for church leaders: people don’t like you messin’ with the status quo.
Making changes at church is a little like kicking a sleeping grizzly. Or playing with her cubs. You risk getting mauled. While people say they want change and improvement, they often would rather things stay comfortably familiar. How can a pastor stay creative and innovative, yet be sensitive to church members’ needs for stability?
This second volume in the Library of Christian Leadership offers skilled insight and indispensable counsel. Now, in a never-before-collected lineup, are thirty chapters of expert advice.
