Church Unique - (Jossey-Bass Leadership Network) by Will Mancini (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Mancini is an expert in the movement to make churches more missional: moving them from an internal focus to an emphasis on participating in the culture and their community. In this book, he outlines a new model to help churches articulate strategy and live into their visions.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Written by church consultant Will Mancini expert on a new kind of visioning process to help churches develop a stunningly unique model of ministry that leads to redemptive movement. He guides churches away from an internal focus to emphasize participation in their community and surrounding culture. In this important book, Mancini offers an approach for rethinking what it means to lead with clarity as a visionary. Mancini explains that each church has a culture that reflects its particular values, thoughts, attitudes, and actions and shows how church leaders can unlock their church's individual DNA and unleash their congregation's one-of-a-kind potential.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p><b>CHURCH UNIQUE</b> <p><i>Church Unique</i> offers church leaders a way to transform their leadership and vision with missional effectiveness. <p><i>Church Unique</i> is written by church consultant Will Mancini--an expert on a new kind of visioning process to help churches develop a stunningly unique model of ministry that leads to redemptive movement.He guides churches away from an internal focus to emphasize participation in their community and surrounding culture. In this important book, Mancini offers an approach for rethinking what it means to lead with clarity as a visionary. Mancini explains that each church has a culture that reflects its particular values, thoughts, attitudes, and actions, and shows how church leaders can unlock their church's individual DNA and unleash their congregation's one-of-a-kind potential. <p>Mancini explores the pitfalls churches often fall into in their attempt to grow, such as adding more programs, using outdated forms of strategic planning, or adopting the latest conference technique. He explores a new model for vision casting and church growth that has been tested with leaders in all kinds of congregations, including mainline, evangelical, small, and large. The practices and ideas outlined in <i>Church Unique</i> will help leaders develop missional teams, articulate unique strategies, unpack the baggage of institution-alism, and live fully into their vision. <p>Whether leading a megachurch or church plant, a multisite or mainline, a ministry or parachurch, <i>Church Unique</i> will provide inspiration as a practical guide for leading into the future. There is a better way.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>[Mancini] gives a compelling rationale for the church to move on and accompanies this rationale with instructive support and church-wide challenge. All mission boards and vestries would benefit from the materials contained therein.<br /> --The Rev. Jeffrey A. Mackey, <i>The Living Church</i> magazine (Sept. 2008) <p>Mancini (founder, Auxano consulting group) believes that all churches need not be megachurches like Willowcreek (IL) or Saddleback (CA). Here, he avoids a mere discussion of churches worthy of emulation and further crosses denominational lines, having himself worked alongside Baptists, Methodists, Lutherans, and others. Mancini eschews the title <i>consultant</i>, preferring instead <i>vision navigator</i> . In short, he helps leaders focus on their own unique cultures and congregational fingerprints. Once churches grasp that they are one of a kind-much like galaxies, fossils, DNA, and sandbanks-they can then, Mancini writes, unleash their full potential. The book, complete with an appendix as well as logos and icons illustrating various churches' visionary thinking, is strengthened by numerous flow charts, diagrams, graphics, and pithy quotes. It has the potential to unseat Rick Warren's <i>The Purpose-Driven Church</i> in popularity. Yet academic libraries may want to pass on this title for its admitted lack of supporting empirical evidence. Public libraries, on the other hand, would be wise to purchase a copy. With a foreword by inspirational giant Max Lucado.<br /> --C. Brian Smith, Arlington Heights Memorial Lib., IL (<i>Library Journal</i>, May 1, 2008)</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>THE AUTHOR</b> <p><b>WILL MANCINI, </b> a former pastor, is the founder of Auxano, a national consulting group that works with traditional and emerging churches and ministries of all types around the country. Their mission is to navigate leaders through growth challenges with vision clarity (auxano.com). <p><b>ABOUT LEADERSHIP NETWORK</b> The mission of Leadership Network identifies and connects innovative church leaders, providing them with resources in the form of new ideas, people, and tools. Contact Leadership Network at www.leadnet.org.
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