Adaptive Ecclesiology: Cultivating Gardens of Healing in a Desert of Trauma
Ebook
This digital-only e-book provides foundational material on adaptive leadership for the church. It is for seminary students, people training for ministry in other settings, and local church leaders who are striving to understand the biblical and theological underpinnings of adaptive ecclesiology. These readers will also gain knowledge about how this approach has worked historically, and how it is used inside and outside the Church today.
The authors’ main book on the topic, Gardens in the Desert: How the Adaptive Church Can Lead a Whole New Life, is more practical in its focus, helping pastors and other leaders know how to begin shifting toward adaptive ecclesiology in their own local churches. The Adaptive Ecclesiology digital-only e-book is a deeper look at the foundations of the topic.
Readers will be inspired and motivated. They will see our challenges in new light
They will learn how to shift their thinking away from the disillusionment (the desert), toward innovation and hope (the gardens)
They'll gain new words and phrases to use with congregants and others, to express new realities for their churches and their mission
They'll be equipped to do the work required to become adaptive leaders and to lead the UMC into a new life
- Title: Adaptive Ecclesiology: Cultivating Gardens of Healing in a Desert of Trauma
- Authors: Michael Adam Beck, Jr. Kenneth H. Carter
- Publisher: Abingdon Press
- Print Publication Date: 2024
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781791035433, 1791035434
- Resource ID: LLS:9781791035433
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-07-29T21:21:56Z
Michael Adam Beck (Author)
Michael Adam Beck is the Director of Fresh Expressions for The United Methodist Church and a lecturer and program director at several seminaries, including the Fresh Expressions House of Studies at United Theological Seminary. He is senior pastor of St. Mark’s UMC in Ocala, FL, and has served as co-pastor with his wife Jill, directing addiction recovery programs, a jail ministry, food pantry, and racial justice movements. He is the author of several books, including Doing Justice Together and A Field Guide to Methodist Fresh Expressions.
Kenneth H. Carter Jr. (Author)
Kenneth H. Carter Jr. is resident bishop of the Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church. He gives pastoral and administrative leadership to more than 1000 congregations, fresh expressions of church, campus ministries, and outreach initiatives. His episcopal area stretches across the 44 western counties of the state. He served for 29 years as a pastor in Western North Carolina and is the author of several books.