From the Outside in: Connecting to the Community Around You (TCP Leadership Series) - Softcover

Johnson, Ronald

9780827242531: From the Outside in: Connecting to the Community Around You (TCP Leadership Series)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0827242530 ISBN 13: 9780827242531

Publisher: Chalice Press, 2005

From the Outside In is a serious look at how the personality of a church can act as a barrier that keeps it from being a welcome ally in the local community and keeps the community from hearing the gospel and the nature of the Kingdom of God. It examines the character of churches that take seriously the Kingdom of God as the essential model of their existence. From the Outside In helps church leaders eager to reach out beyond their own walls to live missionally in a multicultural world, to dialogue with communities around them, and to move out in witness toward the world. It points out personality characteristics that prevent or enable churches to engage the communities around them. From the Outside In encourages churches to seriously listen, to hear what the community is saying, and to respond in Kingdom-focused ways. A TCP Leadership Series title.

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From the Publisher:

This title is part of The Columbia Partnership Leadership Series. The TCP Leadership Series is an inspiration- and wisdom-sharing vehicle of The Columbia Partnership, a community of Christian leaders seeking to transform the capacity of the North American Protestant church to pursue and sustain vital Christ-centered ministry.

From the Back Cover:

"In the last decade, more books have been written on the future of churches, and on how churches are called to face the future, than anyone can get around to reading. Why should you buy and read From the Outside In? This book is one of the several obvious 'picks' in a very large 'litter.' The book's practical perspectives for helping church leaders to understand their church, and the community they are called to reach, make the book indispensable for church leaders in this still-new century."
--George Hunter, Asbury Theological Seminary

"If you want to become an MRI Church where M=Missional, R=Relational, and I=Incarnational, this is a great place to start. Amidst the standing-room only literature on the church of the future, this book stands out."
--Leonard Sweet, Drew University, George Fox University

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