The Innovative Church: How Leaders and Their Congregations Can Adapt in an Ever-Changing World
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
The church as we know it is calibrated for a world that no longer exists. It needs to recalibrate in order to address the questions that animate today’s congregants. Leading congregational researcher Scott Cormode explores the role of Christian practices in recalibrating the church for the twenty-first century, offering church leaders innovative ways to express the never-changing gospel to their ever-changing congregations. The book has been road-tested with over one hundred churches through the Fuller Youth Institute and includes five questions that guide Christian leaders who wish to innovate.
- Explores the role of Christian practices in recalibrating the church for the twenty-first century
- Includes five questions that guide Christian leaders who wish to innovate
- Offers church leaders innovative ways to express the never-changing gospel to their ever-changing congregations
- Creating Stories of Transforming Hope
- The Meaning of Christian Innovation
- Leadership Begins with Listening
- Making Spiritual Sense
- Reinvented Practices as Shared Stories of Hope
- A Process for Innovation
- Organizing for Innovation
- Innovation and Change
- The Next Faithful Step
- Recalibrating Church for the Smartphone Generation
- Appendix: Systematic Listening
Scott Cormode (PhD, Yale University), an ordained Presbyterian minister, is the Hugh De Pree Professor of Leadership Development at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California. He is a senior fellow at the Max De Pree Center for Leadership and the Fuller Youth Institute. Cormode founded the Academy of Religious Leadership and the Journal of Religious Leadership.