Spiritual Maturity
and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle.
Learn more
| ||||||||||||||||||
Frequently Bought Together
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Healing Modality,
By Joanne Robertson "Christian Educator" (Nashville, TN United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: Spiritual Maturity: Preserving Congregational Health and Balance (Prisms) (Paperback)
Thomas' book is an insightful look at the path to spiritual growth and development. He clearly articulates the nature of conflict within congregations (although his model is applicable to any organization) and provides critical thinking about how to address such conflicts in a way that is meaningful and courageous. I found his discussion about people who function as victims and saviors by doing a dance of immaturity to be very provocative. His call for principle-based leadership, while not new, is very refreshing in a congregational context and challenges those of us who have congregations centered around charismatic leadership to abandon our cults of personality.This book will be most helpful to congregations that have not fully understood or articulated their mission, vision and values. It will provide a very capable framework and guidelines to begin those discussions so that ministry can go forth as a "healing modality" in our broken society.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
First Sentence:
If we would preserve health and balance in the congregational body, then we must first understand what fundamental difference an experience of Christ makes in the lives we live in this world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mature church member, playing savior, uncritical agreement, agreement crowd, principled agreement, congregational body, congregational leadership, personal maturity, emotional arguments, congregational life Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Church Council, Jesus Christ, Old Testament, South African, Victorious Christian Life, African American, Personnel Committee, Holy Spirit, New Testament, Gospel of John, Naboth the Jezreelite New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
If we would preserve health and balance in the congregational body, then we must first understand what fundamental difference an experience of Christ makes in the lives we live in this world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mature church member, playing savior, uncritical agreement, agreement crowd, principled agreement, congregational body, congregational leadership, personal maturity, emotional arguments, congregational life Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Church Council, Jesus Christ, Old Testament, South African, Victorious Christian Life, African American, Personnel Committee, Holy Spirit, New Testament, Gospel of John, Naboth the Jezreelite New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Citations (learn more)
This book cites 7
books:
See all 7 books this book cites
6
books
cite this book:
See all 6 books citing this book
- Generation to Generation: Family Process in Church and Synagogue by Edwin H. Friedman in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Moving Beyond Church Growth (Prisms) by Mark A. Olson in Front Matter
- Turn Your Church Inside Out: Building a Community for Others by Walt Kallestad in Front Matter
- Rest in the Storm: Self-Care Strategies for Clergy and Other Caregivers by Kirk Byron Jones in Back Matter
- The Christian Church (Today's World) by Christopher Wright in Front Matter
See all 7 books this book cites
- Clergy Burnout: Recovering From The 70 Hour Week... and Other Self-Defeating Practices (Prism Series) by Fred Lehr in Front Matter
- The Right Road (Prisms) by Gwen Wagstrom Halaas in Front Matter
- The Church Enslaved (Prisms) by Tony Campolo in Front Matter
- Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence: Christian Churches and the Global AIDS Crisis by Donald E. Messer in Front Matter
- A Servant's Manual (Prisms) by Michael W. Foss in Front Matter
See all 6 books citing this book
Books on Related Topics
(learn more)
|
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
So You'd Like to...
Look for Similar Items by Category
- Books > Christian Books & Bibles > Ministry & Church Leadership > Church Administration
- Books > Christian Books & Bibles > Ministry & Church Leadership > Church Institutions & Organizations
- Books > Christian Books & Bibles > Ministry & Church Leadership > Ministry
- Books > Religion & Spirituality > Spirituality
