Rediscover Your Church's Mission!
Many churches are struggling to connect with their communities and are facing a decline. But there's hope! God is inviting His church to be reborn from the inside out, transforming into a new missional presence that brings life and flourishing to their neighborhoods.
Using inspiring vision, practical tools, and field-tested methods, pastor Joshua Hayden offers church leaders solutions for resurrecting their congregations.
If you're a church leader longing to bring your declining church back from the brink, Remissioning Church is your essential companion that outlines the path of inside-out transformation through discipleship while focusing on serving your neighbors and the world.
God is inviting your church to a new beginning. Remissioning Church is the guide you need to answer that call and lead your congregation into a future filled with purpose and mission.
"The demands of ministry are such that it can be easy for an established church's vision to be reduced to mere survival. In Remissioning Church, Joshua Hayden gives established churches a remarkable gift: an inspiring, practical, field-tested road map to rediscovering one's calling as a community on mission."
CONTENTS
Part 1: The Journey of a Thousand Miles Starts Somewhere
1.The Gift of Remissioning
2. Remissioning Through Descent
3. Finding Ourselves in the Remissioning Story
4. Remissioners Shift from Ownership to Stewardship
Part 2: Practicing Resurrection Through Creative Destruction
5. Creative Destruction: Remissioning from Death to Life
6. Remissioning with Fresh Eyes
7. Pruning for Growth in the Remissioning Garden
8. The Nature of Change in the Remissioning Journey
Part 3: Traditioned Innovation
9. Remissioning Starts with the End
10. Remissioning and the Work of Remembering
11. Burying Preferences for the Sake of Mission
12. Everything Is Liturgical (So Remission on Purpose!)
Part 4: Developing Discipleship Pathways
13. The Four Spaces of Belonging in a Remissioning Context
14. Creating Shared Experiments to Grow a Remissioning Imagination
15. Movemental Discipleship for Remissioning Churches
16. Race, Class and the Kingdom of God are Essential for Remissioning
Part 5: Remissioning Leadership
17. Habits + Vision = Remissioning
18. Embracing Conflict as Remissioning Leaders
19. An Open Invitation for Remissioning Leaders
20. A Remissioning Path Requires New Metrics
21. Four Pathways for Remissioning
22. Dying to Live
Acknowledgments
Notes
