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Church Pub.
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Cover of: Beyond Business As Usual
Beyond Business As Usual: Vestry Leadership Development, Revised Edition
2016, Church Publishing, Incorporated
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Cover of: Beyond Business As Usual
Beyond Business As Usual: Vestry Leadership Development
September 1, 2007, Church Publishing
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2007, Church Pub.
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Table of Contents

A new way for clergy and vestries to think
Defining reality : our churches are in decline
Cultural changes
Decline in the Episcopal Church
A word about church growth
Who is responsible?
What use are vestries?
He said he'd never serve on the vestry again
Lead, follow, or get out of the way
What is your mental model?
The teaching role of the pastor
Choose your mental model
Vestry as learning community
Vestry as a community of disciples
Benefits of a learning community
Modeling a teachable spirit
Discerning the pinch points
Spiritual pinch points
Relational pinch points
Administrative pinch points
Recognizing your commitment level
Committed to the ongoing life of the church
Committed to participation in the life of the vestry
Committed to the financial support of the church
How to conduct an effective vestry meeting
The tried and tired method
A better way
Preparing the agenda
Other means for forming a vestry as a learning community
Vestry selection process
Vestry orientation
Vestry retreat
Teachable moments
Holding urgency and being a non-anxious presence in healthy tension
Tyranny of the urgent
Right urgency as the antidote to complacency
Non-anxious presence
Being a non-anxious presence is not simply a technique
Exercises for moving beyond business as usual.

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Dewey Decimal Class
254/.0373
Library of Congress
BX5950 .M53 2007, BX5950.M53 2007

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Pagination
p. cm.

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Open Library
OL17906452M
Internet Archive
beyondbusinessas0000mich
ISBN 13
9780898695694
LCCN
2007015823
OCLC/WorldCat
123539341
Library Thing
5332446
Goodreads
3828420

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