The Equipping Pastor: A Systems Approach to Congregational Leadership

by R. Paul Stevens

Book Overview

The authors draw on their combined experience to create an exciting model of congregational leadership that understands congregations as relational systems. Learn how relational processes can liberate members for ministry and mission in the world and release pastors for appropriate leadership.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566991080
• ISBN13: 9781566991087
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Systems theory, the church and the pastor

Edwin Friedman was one of the first to apply systems theogy (and therapy!) to a local church congregation. This book is a later, more "practical" application of Friedman's work, showing church leaders who they can be effective within the "system" that is the local church. Excellent resource for those wishing to understand how church cultures work and how to be a change agent. High recommended.