Change & Conflict in Your Congreagation
SkyLight Paths Publishing,US (Verlag)
978-1-59473-578-3 (ISBN)
Change and conflict are often feared in churches but they don't need to be. When we learn to see these difficulties as normal, healthy parts of being a community, it is much easier to navigate them with a minimum of anxiety and bad behaviour. We are able to let go of our fears and face change and conflict as catalysts for moving forward in the mission of showing God's love and justice to the world. In fact, there is no way to move forward in mission without change and conflict.
This warmhearted guidebook will help your church navigate change and channel conflict into deeper understanding and a stronger sense of community. Lay leaders, pastors and church staff will be empowered by creative, easy-to-implement strategies to:
·Establish appropriate congregational behaviour and communication
·Practise nonanxious leadership in the midst of upheaval
·Foster productive community discussion and discernment
·Manage a community's tendency to polarise disagreements
·Encourage imaginative thinking and creative responses to difficult
situations
·Replace a congregation's discouraging self-image with an
empowering vision for ministry
"When congregations can move forward from conflict, weather change well and allow ourselves to move beyond old and outdated stories, then we are able to create a new story for our future.... Do we dare to ask God to lead us to a new place?"
-from the Benediction
Rev. Anita L. Bradshaw, theologian and consultant, helps congregations across the denominational spectrum grow through change and find healthy resolutions to conflict. She has taught at universities and seminaries across the United States, including Yale Divinity School, Augsburg College and Hartford Seminary. An ordained pastor in the United Church of Christ, she has, also, served as a parish pastor.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Is This Normal? Accepting Change and Conflict in the Church
2. What Are We So Afraid Of? Using Scripture, History, and Theology to Reframe Our Perspective
3. Why Is Change So Difficult? Understanding and Managing the Process of Transformation
4. How Can Conflict Be Positive? Strategies for Working with and Thriving Through Disagreements
5. Why Do We Love Extremes? Developing Imagination and Managing Polarities
6. What Is Our Story? Discovering and Changing the Way We See Ourselves
Benediction
Notes
Suggested Resources
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 20.8.2015 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Woodstock |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Pastoraltheologie |
| ISBN-10 | 1-59473-578-6 / 1594735786 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-59473-578-3 / 9781594735783 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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