Part 1. Preparation for discovery -- The state of pastoral leadership in America -- Re-envisioning pastoral leadership -- The biblical basis for re-envisioning ministry -- Design, direction, and development -- The leader's behavior -- Part 2. Process of discovery -- Our initial exploration -- Our follow-up exploration -- Four critical questions -- Part 3. Practice of discovery -- Embracing the …
The church : let's start here -- Challenges, struggles, solutions, priorities -- Distinctives of a contagious church -- Worship : a commitment -- not a war -- What must the church realize? -- How should the church react? -- The church on a long drift -- It's time to "restore the years." Abstract The author exposes what he sees as the problems with the postmodern church, arguing that the chu…