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The Sky Is Falling: Leaders Lost in Transition (Paperback)

by Alan J. Roxburgh (Author)
Key Phrases: missional imagination, missional life, missional leadership, North America, New York, God's Spirit (more...)
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Editorial Reviews
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Leadership always functions in a given situation or context. How do we lead today in our current cultural situation? Finally... here is the conceptual framework every leader needs to navigate stuck-ness between a past to which we cannot return and a future yet to emerge. --Todd Hunter, President, Alpha USA Former President, Vineyard Churches USA

If you re looking for a model of risky practices for your emergent church ... if you want the most effective strategies for reviving a traditional church ... if you seek dependable and reassuring methods ... forget Roxburgh. But if you believe, as I do, that churches today have encountered profound cultural shifts, that leaders need conversations across tribal boundaries, and that we need our imaginations to be immersed in biblical narratives, then this book is what we need to deepen and guide our discourse. --Rev. Mark Lau Branson, Ed.D., Homer L. Goddard Associate Professor Ministry of the Laity, Fuller Theological Seminary

The church in North America is in a crisis precipitated by a revolution in culture. Alan Roxburgh provides a realistic analysis of this crisis and warns us not to look for easy answers or quick solutions the time of transition will be with us longer than we like. So he does not provide the latest how-to manual for successful church leadership we have enough of those already! But neither does he get stuck in analysis paralysis. Instead he suggests a way that we might work together long-term to develop a more faithful engagement of the church with the mission of God. The Sky Is Falling should stimulate important conversations and provoke (I hope) some courageous experiments. --David G. Dunbar, President, Biblical Theological Seminary

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This is more than a book, it is a manifesto, a proposal for a new way of imagining a common life together as the pilgrim people of God seeking to fulfill God s purposes for the world in our time. If we need new kinds of churches, we cannot develop them with old kinds of leaders. We ourselves need to become those new kinds of leaders, even as we all look to the next generations to help them be formed in new apprenticeships in the kinds of skills this book describes. Alan Roxburgh s most radical and powerful insight: having new kinds of churches with new kinds of leaders is not the point. In the end, even though we in the church talk and talk (and write and write) about church, church, church, church ... it s not about the church. The church exists for something bigger than itself. Understanding that one thing alone will be worth your expense, time, and effort in turning this page and reading on with an open mind and an open heart. Taken from foreward and endorsements by Brian McClaren & Tim Keel

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Product Details
  • Paperback: 187 pages
  • Publisher: Allelon Publishing; 1st edition (February 1, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0977718409
  • ISBN-13: 978-0977718405
  • Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #433,088 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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