Episode 2743: FORETASTE: LEADERSHIP FOR THE MISSIONAL CHURCH by Paul M. Dietterich - a podcast by Ric Bratton

FORETASTE: LEADERSHIP FOR THE MISSIONAL CHURCH by Paul M. Dietterich

This book provides lay and clergy leaders with practical ways to work together to strengthen their church as a missional community. Readers gain a theological foundation for their leadership and learn to practice six behaviors that transform a church’s climate into one that demonstrates Christian faith. It is only through the life, work, and message of the community of faith that the gospel can be interpreted and made relevant. This is why leadership that forms a missional community is so important. The gospel is not only that by which the Christian community lives, the gospel itself lives through the life and witness of the community.

Paul Dietterich, a native of Buffalo, New York, is an ordained United Methodist minister and a clergy member of the Iowa United Methodist Conference. He holds advanced degrees from Ohio Wesleyan University and Boston University. He has served as pastor to churches in Massachusetts and Iowa. He directed the ecumenical program of the National Council of Churches at the Church Center for the United Nations, and for more than forty years directed the work of the Center for Parish Development. He has taught as visiting professor of practical theology at the Roman Catholic Theological University in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and more than a dozen theological seminaries in the United States and Canada. Through his work at the Center for Parish Development he has served as consultant with the Episcopal House of Bishops, the Council of Bishops of the United Methodist Church, and clusters of North American congregations, districts, conferences, dioceses, and synods. He is married to the Rev. Dr. Inagrace T. Dietterich, is the father of four children and the grandfather of seven.

https://www.amazon.com/Foretaste-Leadership-Missional-Paul-Dietterich/dp/1532665512
www.MissionalChurch.org   

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