Borderland Churches: A Congregation's Introduction to Missional Living (TCP Leadership Series) (Paperback)

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Product Details

• Paperback: 166 pages
• Publisher: Chalice Press (December 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0827202385
• ISBN-13: 978-0827202382
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #294,299 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

• This item is part of The Columbia Partnership (TCP) Leadership Series.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Leaders Control Change, April 14, 2009

By	George Bullard "Strategic Leadership Coach" (Columbia, SC, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

In his book, Borderland Churches: A Congregation's Introduction to Missional Living, Gary Nelson says the following about the role of leaders in controlling change:

"The only people who like change are usually the ones who are in charge of it. I am convinced that clergy do not totally grasp this truth. We think it is rational and reasonable to embrace change." "Leaders have more control in the changes ahead than their people." [27]

This book looks carefully at the changes that churches on the borderlands of ministry need to make. The borderlands is where true missional action takes places.

The organizing principle of this book is not modern vs. postmodern, but whether or not the church can engage in ministry at the intersection of church, unchurched, and dechurched persons in society, or Christian, unChristian, and anti-Christian.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent book, February 27, 2009

By	Edward A. White (Washington DC) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is an excellent book. Canada is ahead of the United States on the secularization scale and their experience with being Christians in a post Christian society has much to teach us. The central message is that we must go to the unchurched instead of waiting for them to come to us. Also the central task is doing God's will on earth, not being preoccupied with the afterlife.