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Equippers as Environmentalists

February 20, 2009

My friend JR (great name right?!) Woodward has recently finished up a series of blog posts on “Equippers as Environmentalists: Re-Imagining Leadership in Today’s Western Church.”  I have been following it all along and sharing each post thought my shared feeds so I hope other have been catching it.  In case you haven’t, he has provided a summary post with an outline of each individual post.

His thesis is that

…if the church is to faithfully rebirth herself in the Western context and cultivate a fruitful missional ethos, she must awaken the five equippers to live as environmentalists instead of master programmers.

As one vitally concerned about the state and future of the Western church as we experience the move from Modernity to Postmodernity and Christendom to Post-Christendom, I am despearte for us to embrace this season of cultural transition as an opportunity to reconsider and rediscover the nature of the church, which is precisely what JR sets out to do.  Leadership, of course, is a major piece of that puzzle and JR has some great stuff to say on the topic.  Hope you’ll head over there and give it a read.  He is also planning on posting it in pdf form soon in his writings page.

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