Missional Map-Making: Skills for Leading in Times of Transition by Alan J. Roxburgh (Jossey-Bass, 1/25/2010) gives leaders the help they need to nurture their church environments to become truly God centered so that his spirit will guide the mission and the work of their congregations.

Why did you write Missional Map-Making?
In working with many church leaders in many different kinds of churches and denominations two things became clear to me. First, they all knew we had entered a different world, a new space where it was increasingly difficult to know how to be God's people in this crazy, unthinkable time of ours. Second, they kept defaulting to the kinds of strategies they've been using all along - such as strategic plans, vision and value statements, and church health programs. Their imagination for how to lead in this new space had not yet connected with their experience that the world had changed. I wrote the book to address this situation and to give people a new way of understanding how to lead in a world where we can no longer follow established maps but need to make new ones.

Who is the book for?
I wrote the book for friends and conversation partners in church leadership. In other words I wrote for people I love very deeply and have a


great passion to help. I want to enable them to get a new imagination for leadership right now. . .


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