How Change Comes to Your Church: A Guidebook for Church Innovations - Softcover

Keifert, Patrick; Granberg-Michaelson, Wesley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802876242 ISBN 13: 9780802876249

Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2019

Synopsis

Innovative spiritual practices that establish the foundation for durable, missional change

Many congregations recognize their need to bring about change in order to become or remain vital, both spiritually and organizationally. They have a sense of what they need, and what might keep them from changing. But they don't know how to change.

How Change Comes to Your Church draws on the practical experience, stories, and examples from two experienced church leaders. Patrick Keifert and Wesley Granberg-Michaelson have helped scores of congregations as well as larger denominational organizations identify key elements that are a necessary part of transformational change.

Rather than a superficial approach with a simplistic formula, How Change Comes to Your Churchfocuses on the important work of changing church culture, with innovative spiritual practices that establish the foundation for durable, missional change.

About this title

About the Authors

Patrick R. Keifert is professor of systematic theology atLuther Seminary and the author of Talking about OurFaith and Welcoming the Stranger: A Public Theologyof Worship and Evangelism.

Wesley Granberg-Michaelson has served as General Secretaryof the Reformed Church in America since 1994. He was thefirst managing editor of Sojourners magazine andhas also worked with the World Council of Churches, Christian Churches Together in the USA, the GlobalChristian Forum, and Call to Renewal. His books includeLeadership from Inside Out: Spirituality andOrganizational Change.

Edition details

• Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802876242
• ISBN 13: 9780802876249
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144