Pursuing God’s Will Together: A Discernment Practice for Leadership Groups
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Meetings can sap our energy, rupture community and thoroughly demoralize us. They can go on forever with no resolution. Or they can rush along without consensus just to “get through the agenda.” What if there was another way?
Church boards and other Christian leadership teams have long relied on models adapted from the business world. Ruth Haley Barton, president of the Transforming Center, helps teams transition to a much more suitable model—the spiritual community that discerns God’s will together.
In these pages you will discover personal and group practices that will lead you into a new way of experiencing community and listening to God together.
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- Discovers experience community and listens to God together.
- Discerns the most important question as a leadership team.
- Provides us with much more than simply a plan of action.
Ruth Haley Barton is a gifted distiller of historic best practices for community discernment and direction. Exercising her counsel on the rare ‘vow of stability’ would by itself rescue multiple organizations from broken strategic trajectories. I highly recommend Pursuing God’s Will Together for leaders, teams and organizations.
--Dr. Bruce McNicol, president, Truefaced Inc.
Fabulous! I look forward to giving copies to our staff and elders. Ruth provides a practical, powerful road map so we can discern the most important question as a leadership team: What is God’s will for us on a particular issue?
--Pete Scazzero, pastor of New Life Fellowship Church and author of The Emotionally Healthy Church
I have been grateful for Ruth Haley Barton’s wisdom in the past on spiritual disciplines so crucial for the soul of a leader. I am sure her latest work will be of great benefit to those who seek the grace of discernment in their work and ministries.
--Gary Haugen, president and CEO, International Justice Mission