Strength Training for a Fit Church: Five Muscles for Adaptive Ministry
Ebook
Equip Yourself for Adaptive Ministry
Developed by the Texas Methodist Foundation, Strength Training for a Fit Church helps church leaders, and their congregations identify and strengthen five crucial skills that will enable them to thrive now and in the future. If churches continually exercise these strengths, they will be adaptable, responsive, and ready to follow God now and into the future.
The five strengths are:
Grieving Well
Discerning Purpose
Walking Alongside
Distributing Power
Expanding Imagination.
The authors, Lisa Greenwood and Blair Thompson, have developed and shared the Five Muscles model through presentations, podcasts, and articles and taught it through church cohorts.
Strength Training for a Fit Church is for leaders, while Strength Training for Faith is for each person in the congregation.
Tested and affirmed by numerous church leaders
Developed and taught by Texas Methodist Foundation
Vital "muscles" for helping congregations adapt and thrive
Includes stories and examples in every chapter
- Title: Strength Training for a Fit Church: Five Muscles for Adaptive Ministry
- Authors: Lisa Greenwood, Blair Thompson
- Publisher: Abingdon Press
- Print Publication Date: 2025
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781791032456, 9781791032449, 1791032443, 1791032451
- Resource ID: LLS:9781791032456
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-06-21T17:04:06Z
Lisa Greenwood (Author)
Rev. Lisa Greenwood is president and CEO of Wesleyan Impact Partners and Texas Methodist Foundation, nonprofit organizations dedicated to strengthening the church’s mission through investing, lending, philanthropy, and missionally-driven innovation. For over thirty years, Lisa has been a change-maker within ministry and faith communities, empowering leaders through learning and innovation and driving congregational strength. She is the co-creator and host of the Igniting Imagination podcast and holds a deep conviction that the Holy Spirit is moving in the world, and our calling is to pay attention and join that good work.
Blair Thompson (Author)
Rev. Dr. Blair Thompson is Chief Learning and Innovation Officer for Wesleyan Impact Partners and Texas Methodist Foundation, where she and her team connect leaders in brave conversations that create enduring relationships of courage, learning, and innovation to build a better, more loving, and grace-filled world. Blair’s dissertation on the role of pilgrimage in the formation of leaders for the church has guided her facilitation of cohort experiences that inspire holy friendships and create space for the Spirit to ignite the imagination. Blair is passionate about the role the values of Wesleyanism can play in human flourishing and wants the church to stand to its full height and witness for her daughter’s generation and beyond.