{"product_id":"church-turned-inside-out-isbn-9780470383179","title":"Church Turned Inside Out","description":"\u003cp\u003eA design-thinking book for planting or redesigning churches and incubating a new generation of leaders.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWritten by Linda Bergquist and Allan Karr, two experienced church planters and mentors, the book is full of wisdom, practical advice, and creative counsel. Instead of a business-model-as-usual approach, the authors challenge readers to begin with the raw materials of beliefs, values, individuals, teams, and culture, and to then move outwards to draw from a rich palette of real and potential church paradigms. This book is meant to provoke church leaders to think outside of the box and to imagine how their churches might better reflect the image and the mission of God in the world. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eContains a wealth of illustrative examples, charts, and other visual aides\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers a creative practical perspective and a multi-disciplinary approach to establishing a new church or leading an existing one\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eShows how to honor a church's purpose while embracing its unique culture\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes important lessons for nurturing church leadership skills\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eFigures and Tables ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbout Leadership Network xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForeword by Alan Hirsch xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface xvii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Once and Future Church 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Acknowledging Self 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Cultivating Community 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Patterns That Honor God 51\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Designing Around Beliefs 67\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Releasing Communitas 79\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Designing in Culture 95\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Embracing Culture 113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 A Palette of Models 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Discovering Congruency 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Organizing by Design 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 A New Way of Organizing 177\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments 201\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbout the Authors 205\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 207\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLINDA BERGQUIST\u003c\/b\u003e has been a church planter and church planting teacher for twenty-five years. She also has experience in the area of church consultations and urban ministry to the poor and assists her husband, who is a ministry center director in the Lower Haight district of San Francisco. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eALLAN KARR\u003c\/b\u003e is currently an associate professor of missional\/church planting at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary and a practitioner of church planting and community development. Allan has also served for ten years as a national missionary of the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention.    \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHURCH TURNED INSIDE OUT\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are no sacred models of church, no specific molds into which God pours blessings, and no special leadership styles that are holier than others. Too often, though, church leaders attempt to pattern their ministries after either tradition or the successes of a few prominent trendsetting congregations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eChurch Turned Inside Out\u003c\/i\u003e, Linda Bergquist and Allan Karr push back on the one-size-fits-all approach. They invite leaders of all kinds of churches—new and existing, megachurches and microchurches—to walk through an inside-out design process. Instead of starting with models and methods, they insist that every sphere of church life resonates with and communicates what you really believe. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the book unfolds, it moves from abstract concepts toward concrete suggestions. It considers the uniqueness of individual leaders, their teams, and their particular communities, cultures, and contexts while taking seriously both spiritual and practical dimensions. This process results in more potent and effectively organized churches. Perhaps more important, it helps church leaders discover ways to live and work more wholly and faithfully, according to how God created them. It really is possible for a church to be so beautifully designed that every structure, program, and relationship reflects what it intends. Sometimes this requires a whole new design, and other times it only takes re-aligning or refining what already exists. This thoughtful and systemic approach opens a wider array of possible church paradigms than most people ever imagine, but the real goal is not innovation but transformation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing a blend of theology, biblical imagery, and metaphors from culture and creation, \u003ci\u003eChurch Turned Inside Out\u003c\/i\u003e provides respectful ways to consider adaptation and change. It offers a hopeful vision of what the church can and must become. It not only positions the church for its future mission to the twenty-first century but offers timeless principles for the church of today.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are no sacred models of church, no specific molds into which God pours blessings, and no special leadership styles that are holier than others. Too often, though, church leaders attempt to pattern their ministries after either tradition or the successes of a few prominent trendsetting congregations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eChurch Turned Inside Out\u003c\/i\u003e, Linda Bergquist and Allan Karr push back on the one-size-fits-all approach. They invite leaders of all kinds of churches—new and existing, megachurches and microchurches—to walk through an inside-out design process. Instead of starting with models and methods, they insist that every sphere of church life resonates with and communicates what you really believe. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the book unfolds, it moves from abstract concepts toward concrete suggestions. It considers the uniqueness of individual leaders, their teams, and their particular communities, cultures, and contexts while taking seriously both spiritual and practical dimensions. This process results in more potent and effectively organized churches. Perhaps more important, it helps church leaders discover ways to live and work more wholly and faithfully, according to how God created them. It really is possible for a church to be so beautifully designed that every structure, program, and relationship reflects what it intends. Sometimes this requires a whole new design, and other times it only takes re-aligning or refining what already exists. This thoughtful and systemic approach opens a wider array of possible church paradigms than most people ever imagine, but the real goal is not innovation but transformation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing a blend of theology, biblical imagery, and metaphors from culture and creation, \u003ci\u003eChurch Turned Inside Out\u003c\/i\u003e provides respectful ways to consider adaptation and change. It offers a hopeful vision of what the church can and must become. It not only positions the church for its future mission to the twenty-first century but offers timeless principles for the church of today. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eABOUT LEADERSHIP NETWORK\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe mission of Leadership Network identifies and connects innovative church leaders, providing them with resources in the form of new ideas, people, and tools. 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