Congregational Megatrends

By Charles Jeffrey Woods

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156699165X
• ISBN13: 9781566991650
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Practical, sound insights

Although it has been available for awhile, this is still one of the best books for helping church members get a handle on the major changes that are taking place in the world today and what those changes mean for churches. It's a great book to use when trying to get a church that is fairly set in its ways thinking about change. Woods discussed seven key megatrends, covering virtually every aspect of a church's life and ministry: from mass to personal evangelism, from tribal to immigrant education, from surrogate to hands-on mission, from reasonable to mysterious spirituality, from official to gifted leadership, from secondary to primary planning, from segmented to holographic programming. Without even mentioning the terms he helps people deal with many of the post-modern and post-Christian realities that are having a significant impact on churches. The approach is one that takes away much of the threat and fear that are often associated with thinking about the need for change. I'd highly recommend it for church leaders and for any group in a church that wants to begin the process of thinking more deeply about what their church needs to be and do.