Promise and Peril: Understanding and Managing Change and Conflict in Congregations

Description

This research-based book helps congregations understand the origins and impact of change within their community, emphasizing organizational theory, and contains suggestions on how to address change.

Features

surveys and interviews with congregations, organizational theory, forming a reference committee, worship as an expression of culture

Practical Applications

• Address internal congregational change in a variety of settings by applying insight from interviews with real-world, contemporary congregations, drawing advice from their challenges and successes.