Gilbert Rendle

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  Journey In The Wilderness

  $18.99

  The last forty years have seen transitions in mainline churches that feel, for many, like a journey into the wilderness. Yet God is calling us in this moment, not to grieve over the changes we have experienced, but to hear the call to a new mission, and a new faithfulness. Gil Rendle draws on decades as a pastor and church consultant to point a way into a hopeful future. The key to embracing the wilderness is to learn new skills in leading change, to reach beyond a position of privilege and power to become churches that serve God’s hurting people.

  Empowers readers to minister more faithfully, and joyfully, in a situation of congregational and denominational transition

  A careful analysis of the changes that have taken place in mainline Protestant churches over the last decades.

  Thorough review of the lessons learned, both inside and beyond the church, about leading organizations during times of social upheaval.

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  Multigenerational Congregation : Meeting The Leadership Challenge

  $26.00

  Congregations need to learn new cultural languages and practices in order to speak to and be heard by new generations of people. But how do congregations enter the wilderness of ministry with these new generations when many of those in the entourage do not appreciate the trip?

  In contrast to many writers about church growth, Rendle works with three important observations:

  Most congregations are not “pure markets,” discrete groups with uniform values and behaviors, that can be targeted to the exclusion of all other audiences;
  Some of the differences and discomforts experienced in the congregation are based on the members’ tenure, or length of membership, rather than their age;
  Leadership in congregations is not a matter of marketplace savvy but of spiritual authenticity in which we continue to shape our faith tradition to be heard and understood by a changing culture.
  Rendle shows us how to talk with and really understand one generational cohort while another cohort is present “looking over one’s shoulder.” Foreword by Lovett H. Weems, Jr., President, Saint Paul School of Theology.

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