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

Keifert, Patrick; Granberg-Michaelson, Wesley

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9780802876249: How Change Comes to Your Church: A Guidebook for Church Innovations
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ISBN 10: 0802876242 ISBN 13: 9780802876249
Publisher: Eerdmans, 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.

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About the Authors

Patrick Keifert (d. 2026) was professor emeritus of systematic theology at Luther Seminary. He founded the Church Innovations Institute, which is now part of the Center for Church Innovation. He held a PhD from the University of Chicago and was ordained in the ELCA. His publications include We Are Here Now: A Missional Journey of Spiritual Discovery and Welcoming the Stranger: A Public Theology of 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.

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Publisher
Eerdmans
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0802876242
ISBN 13 
9780802876249
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
160
Rating
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