Until-now Fresh Expressions has been about starting and sustaining mission initiatives among people with little or no church contact. As these projects mature pastoral problems easily arise - how do you integrate the old with the new? How do you get an established congregation to change its views and practices? What it newcomers challenge set patterns of church behaviour rather than conform to them?

This highly practical text and workbook integrates social psychology organisational studies and theology to provide a manual for training and equipping local church leaders and congregations not only to manage change but to grow through it. One of the first text books on Christian ministry to be written for the 'mixed economy' of traditional and fresh expressions of church, it will enable church leaders everywhere to respond creatively to key contemporary challenges. So whether your faith community is thriving just surviving or is affected by change of any kind, this book will enable you to understand and embrace its human dynamic and harness its energy for the good of the kingdom of God.

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ISBN: 9781853118128
Catalogue code: N/A
Publisher: CANTERBURY PRESS - published 15/06/2007
Format: Paperback