Letting go : transforming congregations for ministry

Notes: Foreword by Michael Cowan.; Includes bibliographical references.; "Drawing on more than thirty years' experience as a senior pastor, he describes in these pages a process by which congregations may grow out of a concern for maintaining the ecclesiastical organization and into a transformational orientation. That growth, he believes, requires four shifts: From membership ... to ministry ... From entitlement ... to mission ... From education ... to spiritual development ... From toleration ... to engagement". "Embedded within these four `why and how-to' chapters are pointed questions for reflection, intended to encourage readers to connect their life experience with the text's stories and explanations".-- Foreword, p. [ix], x.; Author is an ordained Unitarian minister.

Subjects: Congregational development; Church renewal; Lay ministry; Christian leadership; Pastoral theology; Leadership - Religious aspects - Christianity; Organizational change - Religious aspects - Christianity