Breaking the Sound Barrier: Women Married to Men in Ministry - Softcover

Flint-Borden, Teresa

9780687491858: Breaking the Sound Barrier: Women Married to Men in Ministry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0687491851 ISBN 13: 9780687491858

Publisher: Abingdon Press, 2007

Offers practical help to ministry couples who break the sound barrier together in order to transform churches.

Like its companions, Hit the Bullseye and Direct Hit by Paul Borden, this book requires radical paradigm change in order to fulfill the Great Commission. While dedicated to the courageous people who help transform churches, Teresa Flint-Borden asserts that moving toward mach 10 ministry means that women married to men in ministry as well as women in ministry are essential partners in the growth process. Ministry couples are co-pilots who together must face the challenges and realities of systemic change in their churches. As Flint-Borden reminds us, growing, turnaround churches can only be led by persons who are willing to be transformed.

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Synopsis:

"Breaking the Sound Barrier" uses as a framework of two memorable, process-oriented metaphors for transformation: Aeronautics, to address what it takes to break through faulty stereotypes and other personal barriers that hold women back from effective "Mach 10" ministry and Wineskins, to address the dramatic changes required in corporate systems that block radical transformation from occurring in our congregations and communities. Its source materials also include insights from biblical role models, theological perspectives, stories of the author's own experiences, and interviews of other women and couples who are pioneers of transformational ministries in new paradigms. Several research surveys are being written to help evaluate underlying causes of barriers to effective ministry for women and how women are coping with radical paradigm shifts in turnaround church work.The introduction and first chapter give principles and anecdotes for what radical change ministry involves and what a "co-piloting leadership paradigm" looks like.

They describe the key barriers to such change at the personal level (faulty stereotypes) and corporate level (inflexible systems), and apply metaphor parallels for breaking through those barriers. The next 10 chapters take readers from "Mach 1" to "Mach 10" in working through principles and applications of the aeronautics metaphor for personal ministry. Each of these 10 chapters also includes a section "giving voice" to women and couples in ministry who have wrestled with replacing the old wineskin systems which have impeded "new vintage" growth that the Spirit wants to implant. Healthy ministerial families are critical to turnaround church change. A potential follow-up project would offer holistic assessments and tools for ministry family systems coaching.

About the Author:

Teresa Flint-Borden is a fourth-generation female business entrepreneur, with 30 years experience as a business owner. She pioneered the first para-medical day spa in Colorado. With 25 employees and 2,500 clients each month, her business became a pacesetter for standards in para-medical day spas. Flint-Borden received several Chamber of Commerce Business awards as a result of her business work, and was also named Outstanding Business Woman of the Year. She currently serves part-time as a consultant to non-profit organizations, a certified facilitator on personal change and transition, and a teacher/trainer on a number of topics and personal assessment tools.As a social advocate, Flint-Borden has received community recognitions for her work with unwed mothers, cancer survivors, and AIDS research and prevention. She created and leads Women of the Word, a non-profit agency designed to empower disadvantaged women. She is also passionate about her advocacy work for clergy spouses. As a historical interpreter, Flint-Borden has developed such dramatic presentations as, "Giving Biblical Women a Voice."She is the mother of two creative, talented children, and a grandmother. She and her husband, Paul, reside in Northern California.

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