Failure-Sparked Innovation: The Key to Ensuring the Future of Local Churches - Hardcover

Edwards, Kaury C

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1666749710 ISBN 13: 9781666749717

Publisher: Cascade Books, 2023

Synopsis

As the western church faces challenges in declining membership and effectiveness due to religious disaffiliation and general discontent with organized religion, innovation must be a central focus within all aspects of ministry in the Christian church. With the focus that the local church must put on innovation, one aspect that will continually be an important factor is how the church understands, interprets, and utilizes failure. Yes, the church must fail! However, the church must not simply fail for the sake of failure. The challenge for the local church is to rethink its notion of failure, which will allow for creativity, new life, and ultimately, transformational innovation. By establishing a proper framework and definition of failure, the church will be able to embrace good failure and the benefits it can offer.

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About the Authors

Kaury C. Edwards is an ordained elder of the United Methodist Church. He received his Doctor of Ministry from Duke Divinity School in 2021. He has served as a missionary with the General Board of Global Ministries in South Korea, served in rural and urban local churches in northwest Texas and Kentucky, and actively serves in a local United Methodist Church in the western North Carolina Conference.



Will Willimon is one of the most popular writers on church, ministry, and religion in the United States today. His books have sold over a million copies. He has served as an editor, writer, pastor, and bishop. He currently teaches at Duke Divinity School.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1666749710
• ISBN 13: 9781666749717
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 114