Church Turned Inside Out: A Guide for Designers, Refiners, and Re-Aligners

One size fits all churches aren’t working – not for their members, and not for their leaders. Whether a network of home churches or a teeming megachurch, church leaders and church planters need to shed their attachments to existing models of success and explore the unique factors that comprise their current ministry endeavor.

Transformation, not innovation, is the main goal according to authors Linda Bergquist and Allan Karr in the new Leadership Network book, CHURCH TURNED INSIDE OUT: A Guide for Designers, Refiners, and Re-Aligners (Jossey-Bass, a Wiley imprint; November 2009; $24.95; Cloth; ISBN: 978-0-470-38317-8). Before churches can even begin to envision external design considerations, Bergquist and Karr advise that they ask substantive internal questions about who they are, what God is calling them to, and for whom their work is necessary. Chapters of the book flow from the work of self-awareness to that of community reflection and onward to organizational conception.

Whatever the path, CHURCH TURNED INSIDE OUT will help leaders and church planters to  develop flexible, out-of-the box approaches that enable God's purposes to be accomplished in a variety of contexts, cultures, and communities.