Missional Map-Making: Skills for Leading in Times of Transition

by Alan J. Roxburgh

Publisher:

Jossey-Bass: A Wiley Imprint

, 2010

Overview

Guidance for church leaders to develop their own maps and chart new paths toward stronger, more vibrant, and more missional congregations

In the burgeoning missional church movement, churches are seeking to become less focused on programs for members and more oriented toward outreach to people who are not already in church. This fundamental shift in what a congregation is and does and thinks is challenging for leaders and congregants. Using the metaphor of map-making, the book explains the perspective and skills needed to lead congregations and denominations in a time of radical change over unfamiliar terrain as churches change their focus from internal to external.

Offers a clear guide for leaders wanting to transition to a missional church model

Written by Alan Roxburgh, a prominent expert and practitioner in the missional movement

Guides leaders seeking to create new maps for leadership and church organization and focus

A Volume in the popular Leadership Network Series

This book is written to be accessible to all Christian congregational styles and denominations.

Key Features

• Guides church leaders to develop their own maps.
• Explains the perspective and skills needed to lead congregations.
• Offers a clear guide for leaders.

Product Details

• Title: Missional Map-Making: Skills for Leading in Times of Transition
• Author: Alan J. Roxburgh
• Edition: First Edition
• Series: Leadership Network
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass: A Wiley Imprint
• Print Publication Date: 2010
• Logos Release Date: 2022
• Pages: 204
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Change › Religious aspects--Christianity; Mission of the Church
• ISBNs: 9780470486726, 0470486724
• Resource ID: LLS:MSSNLMPMKTRNSTN
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2023-01-03T19:21:58Z

About Alan J. Roxburgh

Alan J. Roxburgh is a pastor, teacher, writer and consultant with more than thirty years experience in church leadership and seminary education. As a senior consultant with The Missional Network, Roxburgh leads training and consulting initiatives across the world. His many books include Reaching a New Generation, Leadership in a Time of Change, Introducing the Missional Church and Missional: Joining God in the Neighborhood. When not traveling or writing, he enjoys spending time with his wife Jane and their five grandchildren in Vancouver, British Columbia.