Dick Wills

Waking to God's Dream (eBook, ePUB)

Spiritual Leadership and Church Renewal

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The demands of congregational ministry are many, the rewards sometimes seem few, and burnout becomes a real possibility. Small wonder, then, that churches become stuck in a state of arrested spiritual development. When the pastor is functioning in a survival or maintenance mode, the church's vitality is often the first casualty. Yet Wills's own experience demonstrates that churches can turn around; the wind of the Spirit can be felt anew. This happens when the congregation is infected by the vision of what God is doing in their midst--a vision which the leaders, particularly the pastor, must bring before them.

In Waking to God's Dream, Richard Wills shares the spiritual disciplines and insights which he believes account for the transformation of the congregation he serves from a large church in decline to one that is growing and reaching out to its community in a variety of creative ministries. Detailing the steps and initiatives that led to this turnaround, Wills demonstrates how personal commitment on the part of the congregation's leaders and ministers have been the key to the work they have accomplished.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781426729218
• Artikelnr.: 53697651

Autorenporträt

Richard Wills was born in 1967, in Whitehaven, Cumbria. He graduated in 1989 from Edge Hill University with a degree in Applied Social Sciences and went on to gain a Masters in Cultural Studies at Huddersfield University in 1996. He toiled in the social care sector for 32 years, qualifying as a social worker in 2004, before leaving the profession in 2020 feeling like a principled dinosaur. He is the youngest of three siblings, son of a teacher / steel worker and housewife / shop assistant. Bloody Social Worker is his first book, although he is currently writing a crime novel set in Oldham whilst studying to become a tutor in adult education.