Quietly Courageous - Leading the Church in a Changing World

Quietly Courageous offers practical guidance to leaders-both lay and ordained-on leading churches today. It encourages leaders to focus on their mission and purpose-what is ultimately motivating their work. It also urges a shift in perspectives on resources, discusses models of change, and offers suggestions for avoiding common pitfalls.

List of contents

Contents

PART I: GOOD LEADERSHIP IS NOT ENOUGH

1 Nashon's Quiet Courage

2 The Change That Demands Quiet Courage

PART II: THE ASSUMPTIONS

3 A Word about How: Assumptions about Change

4 A Word about Enough: Assumptions about Resources

5 A Word about Structure and Process: Assumptions about

Fear, Organization, and Democracy

6 A Word about Learning: Assumptions about How

Leadership Is Formed

PART III: THE TEMPTATIONS

7 The Temptation of Playing It Safe: Nostalgia

8 The Temptation of Christian Empathy

9 The Temptation of Tiredness

PART IV: WHERE DO WE START?

10 Telling the Story That Will Get Us through the Wilderness

11 Lessons in Style

Notes

Bibliography

About the Author

About the author

Gil Rendle most recently served as senior vice president with The Texas Methodist Foundation in Austin Texas and as an internationally respected independent consultant working with issues of change and leadership in Protestant, Catholic and Jewish denominational systems. Prior to this position he served the Alban Institute as an author, seminar leader and senior consultant for twelve years. An ordained United Methodist minister, Rendle also served as senior pastor of two urban congregations in Pennsylvania and as a denominational consultant for The United Methodist Church. He is the author of ten books, a contributor to four books, and the author of numerous articles and monographs. Recent books include Doing the Math of Mission (2014) and Quietly Courageous: Leading the Church in a Changing World (2018) published by Rowman & Littlefield. He was named as a Distinguished Alumni of the Boston University School of Theology in 2021. Gil is a resident of Haverford, Pennsylvania where he lives with his wife, Lynne.

Product details

• Authors: Gil Rendle
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781538112908
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-1290-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Religion / Christian Church / General, RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Missions, RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Evangelism, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Pastoral Resources, RELIGION / Christianity / Denominations, Christian mission & evangelism, Christianity, Christian life & practice, Christian Churches & denominations, Christian Churches, denominations, groups, Christian institutions & organizations, RELIGION / Christian Living / General, Religious life and practice, Religious mission and Religious Conversion, Religious institutions and organizations, Religious social and pastoral thought and activity, Christian social thought & activity, congregation;lay;ministry;mission;ordained