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Author: Michael Beck
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Published: 2023-05-16
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781953495648
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhich of the 5 congregational personality types is your congregation? The answer will change everything about how you lead, grow, and empower your church to thrive in the 21st century.
Author: Lynne M. Baab
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 1998-11-01
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 1566996015
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPastor & author, Lynne Baab "offers readers a useful tool to understand both their own spiritual journeys and their role in the life of their chosen spiritual community". The book "...provides a basic understanding of the concepts of psychological type and then builds upon them with applications to real-life issues...".
Author: Roy M. Oswald
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 1988-06-01
Total Pages: 183
ISBN-13: 1566996007
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCombining pastoral and behavioral science expertise, the authors spell out ways type and temperament theory illuminate the clergy role. Learn how to use the 16 Myers-Briggs personality types to recognize and affirm your gifts, work with your liabilities, and understand and accept those with whom you minister. "Being a parish pastor is a very complex role. Our mission in this book is to make that task a little less complex and a little more fun by looking at our congregations through the lens of the MBTI." -- The authors
Author: Corinne Ware
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 1995-03-01
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 1566995094
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Urban T. Holmes's spiritual typology and her own experience as a spiritual director and pastoral counselor, Ware provides a framework for people to name and understand their spiritual experience-in much the same way the Myers-Briggs typology provides a framework for understanding personality types. Readers explore four spiritual types--head, heart, mystic, and Kingdom--and exercises allow individuals and groups to assess their type. Additional information for clergy to use this tool with congregations is included, which will help them gain greater understanding of how members learn about, worship, and celebrate God--and why there may be tension about such issues as the form or content of the worship service.
Author: Larry L. McSwain
Publisher: Chalice Press
Published: 2013-05-30
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 0827205317
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLeading is a calling from God, but that doesn't mean it is easy. There are choices to be made about what your congregation believes, how your church organizes for effective ministry, and how your church serves the settings of which you are a part. The good news is that others have gone before you. Author Larry L. McSwain's forty years of experience can help guide you through these choices. Rooted in research, The Calling of Congregational Leadership teaches a three-pronged approach to congregational leadership: being a good leader, the knowledge needed by the leader, and the managing of ministry leadership. By using this practical, holistic approach to leading congregations, McSwain shows you how to use your church's potential for conveying the power of God in the lives you touch. The Calling of Congregational Leadership is for those who seek to enlarge the understanding of their leadership to make their communities of faith more vital and more reflective of the mission of God in the world.
Author: Jerome Wagner, Ph.D.
Publisher: Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media
Published: 2021-02-18
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 1722526203
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the best introductory book you will find on the Enneagram. Wagner's guide is a clear and concise introduction to the Enneagram, useful for personal exploration and as a teaching ID for workshop presenters and counselors. This comprehensive book with charts, exercises, and bullet descriptions, yields an experiential understanding of basic Enneagram principles such as: • Authentic values and their personality substitutes • Resourceful and non-resourceful cognitive, emotional, and behavioral schemas and how they shift under stressful and flow conditions • Developmental influences • The three centers of sorting and deciding • The defense mechanisms, principles and paradigms, virtues, passions, and both healthy and maladaptive instincts of each of the nine Enneagram personality types. For centuries -- and now in the light of leading-edge psychology—the Enneagram has helped people to recognize their predispositions, motives, and talents. Its insights provide valuable information for those in communication, business, human resources, therapy, and personal growth. This book helps you to explore the nine different "hues" of the Enneagram, discover your own type, and understand the behaviors and attitudes that are uniquely yours. It is considered the most concise and easy to use introductory guide available.
Author: C. Jeff Woods
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 1995-12-31
Total Pages: 133
ISBN-13: 1566996880
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEach congregation must evaluate itself in light of its own mix of gifts, backgrounds, talents, and opportunities. Presenting the best of evaluation theory past and present, Woods shows clergy and lay leaders how to engage in mutual evaluation-not judgment-of ministry, mission, and community as a shared responsibility. The goal is building up the congregation. A special chapter provides commentary from church evaluation experts Roy Oswald (Alban), Paul Light (ABUSA denominational staff), and Jill Hudson (PCUSA judicatory executive) on dilemmas congregations face in evaluation.
Author: Elizabeth Puttick
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
Published: 2009-08-15
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 1401926193
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The seven archetypes of Artisan, Sage, Server, Priest, Warrior, King, and Scholar have always existed in every society; and everyone belongs to one of these groups. Thousands of people around the world have used this system ... to discover their true nature and to find fulfillment"--Page 4 of cover
Author: Roy M. Oswald
Publisher: Alban Institute
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1566991749
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Roy M. Oswald
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2009-12-31
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1566995817
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCongregations often find themselves in power struggles over two opposing views. People on both sides believe strongly that they are right. They also assume that if they are right, their opposition must be wrong--classic 'either/or' thinking. A polarity is a pair of truths that need each other over time. When an argument is about two poles of a polarity, both sides are right and need each other to experience the whole truth. This phenomenon has been recognized and written about for centuries in philosophy and religion. It is at the heart of Taoism, where we find the familiar polarity of yin and yang energy. In the past fifty years, business leaders have come to appreciate the phenomenon, often called dilemma or paradox. No matter what it is called, the research is clear: leaders and organizations that manage polarities well outperform those who don't.
