Missional Renaissance: Changing the Scorecard for the Church

Reggie McNeal's bestseller The Present Future is the definitive work on the "missional movement," i.e., the widespread movement among Protestant churches to be less inwardly focused and more oriented toward the culture and community around them. In that book he asked the tough questions that churches needed to entertain to begin to think about who they are and what they are doing; in Missional Renaissance, he shows them the three significant shifts in their thinking and behavior that they need to make that will allow leaders to chart a course toward being missional: (1) from an internal to an external focus, ending the church as exclusive social club model; (2) from running programs and ministries to developing people as its core activity; and (3) from professional leadership to leadership that is shared by everyone in the community. With in-depth discussions of the "what" and the "how" of transitioning to being a missional church, readers will be equipped to move into what McNeal sees as the most viable future for Christianity. For all those thousands of churches who are asking about what to do next after reading The Present Future, Missional Renaissance will provide the answer.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

McNeal, Reggie

Psychology & Counseling

Jossey-Bass

The Present Future: Six Tough Questions for the Church

In this provocative book, author, consultant, and church leadership developer Reggie McNeal debunks these and other old assumptions and provides an overall strategy to help church leaders move forward in an entirely different and much more effective way. In The Present Future, McNeal identifies the six most important realities that church leaders must address including: recapturing the spirit of Christianity and replacing "church growth" with a wider vision of kingdom growth; developing disciples instead of church members; fostering the rise of a new apostolic leadership; focusing on spiritual formation rather than church programs; and shifting from prediction and planning to preparation for the challenges of an uncertain world. McNeal contends that by changing the questions church leaders ask themselves about their congregations and their plans, they can frame the core issues and approach the future with new eyes, new purpose, and new ideas. 
Also available: The Present Future DVD Collection (978-0-7879-8673-5), Reggie McNeal's DVD presentation of the ideas and insights featured in his best-selling book.

History

World

The third book in the trilogy that explores the popular missional movement From Reggie McNeal, the bestselling author of The Present Future and Missional Renaissance, comes the third book in the series that helps to define and illuminate the popular missional movement. This newest book in the trilogy examines a natural outgrowth of the move toward a missional orientation: the deconstruction of congregations into very small Christian communities. For all those thousands of churches and leaders who have followed Reggie McNeal's bold lead, this book details the rise of a new life form in churches. <ul>
<li>Discusses how to move a church from an internal to an external ministry focus</li> <li>Reggie McNeal is a recognized leader in the missional movement</li> <li>Outlines an alternative to the program church model that is focused on the projects and passions of the congregants</li> </ul>
This book draws on McNeal's twenty years of leadership roles in local congregations and his work over the last decade with thousands of clergy and church leaders.

Missional Communities: The Rise of the Post-Congregational Church

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

The church's mission, argues Reggie McNeal, engages every aspect of life. The front lines of the collision between the kingdom of light and the kingdom of darkness are homes, schools, offices, health clubs, civic organizations, and neighborhoods - wherever God's people find themselves. Equipping the church for this mission can no longer be the responsibility solely of professional clergy. A new team of leaders, drawn from the membership of each congregation, must arise to meet the challenges that ministry in the third millennium will present. Yet where and how will these leaders be trained? For the answer to this question, McNeal looks to the first generation of leaders - the disciples gathered around Jesus in a unique learning community. Like that earliest group of Christian learners, our churches must become centers of continual and ongoing learning; they must see the training of a local lay leadership as the starting point for all their ministries. Drawing on the New Testament picture of the learning community that gathered around Jesus as his explicit model, McNeal offers useful and practical guidance on how churches can recruit, train, and commission leaders from within their own ranks.

Revolution in Leadership: Training Apostles for Tomorrow's Church (Ministry for the Third Millennium Series)

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

ABINGDON PRESS *

A Leadership Network Publication Spiritual leaders must become experts in matters of the heart. They must learn to discern God at work in their own lives, shaping their hearts to embrace the particular ministries to which they are called. A Work of Heart shows how God prepares leaders today just as he did in biblical times-and how God creates these leaders in order to share his heart with his people.

A Work of Heart : Understanding How God Shapes Spiritual Leaders

Jossey-Bass Inc Pub

Practicing Greatness: 7 Disciplines of Extraordinary Spiritual Leaders

Based on his extensive experience as coach and mentor to many thousands of Christian leaders across a broad spectrum of ministry settings, Reggie McNeal helps spiritual leaders understand that they will self-select into or out of greatness. In this important book, McNeal shows how great spiritual leaders are committed consciously and intentionally to seven spiritual disciplines, habits of heart and mind that shape both their character and competence: The discipline of self-awareness―the single most important body of information a leader possesses The discipline of self-management―handling difficult emotions, expectations, temptations, mental vibrancy, and physical well-being The discipline of self-development―a life-long commitment to learning and growing and building on one's strengths The discipline of mission―enjoying the permissions of maintaining the sense of God's purpose for your life and leadership The discipline of decision-making―knowing the elements of good decisions and learning from failure The discipline of belonging―the determination to nurture relationships and to live in community with others, including family, followers, mentors, and friends The discipline of aloneness―the intentional practice of soul-making solitude and contemplation

Join Reggie McNeal in person in this lively video presentation, based on his best-selling book, The Present Future: Six Tough Questions for the Church. In this ten-session four-DVD curriculum you will accompany best-selling author Reggie McNeal and his studio audience as they explore the six most important new realities that church leaders must face as they are to move beyond "churchianity" to a more authentic and missional Christian faith. By changing the questions church leaders ask themselves about their congregations and their mission, they can reshape the Christian movement in North America acknowledge generational shifts, and provide stimulating new ways of thinking about the missional possibilities of the church. 
Filmed live before a studio audience, with Reggie McNeal teaching in his own distinctive style, the package includes 4 DVDs, 1 Leader's Guide and 1 Participant's Guide. The Participant's Guides may be purchased separately (ISBN: 9780787991708).

The Present Future DVD Collection: Six Tough Questions for the Church

In this accompanying Participant’s Guide to The Present Future DVD Collection, best-selling author Reggie McNeal offers a hands-on workbook for church leaders to use throughout the DVD sessions and their own church development. The Participant's Guide includes the following: A brief introduction to the main issues the DVDs address, to help orient you to the questions and challenges it raises. "Conversation Starters," questions designed to spark thinking and insight (as well as conversations with your fellow participants) as you ponder your responses to viewing the DVD sessions. Questions that you may consider between sessions. *The Present Future DVD Collection: Six Tough Questions for the Church by Reggie McNeal contains 1 copy of the Participant’s Guide.

Participant's Guide to the DVD Collection for The Present Future: Six Tough Questions for the Church

When was the last time you took a long look at you and had an honest, helpful discussion with yourself about you? Failure to do that might cause you to miss out on the life you were created for. Here is your chance for the conversation of a lifetime. 
 In Get a Life! It IS All About You, author Reggie McNeal says, "God had you in mind when he made you." 
 With that truth, McNeal invites us to take responsibility for the hardest thing we'll ever do: really live. In dialogue with readers, he puts a spotlight on the need to intentionally examine our lives on a regular basis, making sure that we are living our level best at every moment and in all regards, from relationships and career to community and faith. Specifically, he explains in detail the importance of always coming back to these five questions: 1. Why am I here? 2. What is really important to me? 3. What is my scorecard? 4. What am I really good at? 5. What do I need to learn? 
 These are the five questions you must ask before you live.

Get a Life!: It Is All About You

Self-Help

Motivational

B & H Pub Group

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Missional Renaissance: Changing the Scorecard for the Church

The Present Future: Six Tough Questions for the Church

Missional Communities: The Rise of the Post-Congregational Church

Revolution in Leadership: Training Apostles for Tomorrow's Church (Ministry for the Third Millennium Series)

A Work of Heart : Understanding How God Shapes Spiritual Leaders

The Present Future: Six Tough Questions for the Church

Practicing Greatness: 7 Disciplines of Extraordinary Spiritual Leaders

The Present Future DVD Collection: Six Tough Questions for the Church

Participant's Guide to the DVD Collection for The Present Future: Six Tough Questions for the Church

Get a Life!: It Is All About You