The Missional Church and Leadership

In this volume-the third book in the Missional Church Series-eminent missional church expert Craig van Gelder continues to track and contribute to the expanding missional church conversation. inviting today"s bright est minds in the field to speak to key questions concerning church leadership. Book jacket.

Craig Van Gelder is professor of congregational mission at Luther Seminary, St.Paul, Minnesota. His other books include The Church between Gospel and Culture, The Missional Church in Context, and The Missional Church and Denominations (all Eerdmans).

Preface	p. vii
Contributors	p. ix
Introduction: Engaging the Missional Church Conversation	p. 1
Missional Leadership Formation In Relation To Theological Education
Theological Education and Missional Leadership Formation: Can Seminaries Prepare Missional Leaders for Congregations?	p. 11
Missional Theology for Schools of Theology: Re-engaging the Question "What Is Theological about a Theological School?"	p. 45
Developing Evangelical Public Leadership for Apostolic Witness: A Missional Alternative to Traditional Pastoral Formation	p. 72
Missional Leadership Formation In Relation To Congregations	p. 97
Cultivating Missional Leaders: Mental Models and the Ecology of Vocation	p. 99
Forming Lay Missional Leaders for Congregations and the World	p. 120
Vision-Discerning vs. Vision-Casting: How Shared Vision Can Raise Up Communities of Leaders Rather than Mere Leaders of Communities	p. 147
Missional Leadership Formation In Relation To Recent Research	p. 173
Characteristics of Congregations That Empower Missional Leadership: A Lutheran Voice	p. 175
Leadership and the Missional Church Conversation: Listening In on What Leaders in Four Denominational Systems Have to Say	p. 209
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The Missional Church and Leadership Formation: Helping Congregations Develop Leadership Capacity

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