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Culture Shift is about how to think, not what to think. It is a great book
that helps pastors and leaders see the importance of setting the culture
rather than trying to do patchwork quick-fixes on the church. Because
culture has a way of communicating itself, if culture is not changed,
things would slide back to what they were, and may continue to
deteriorate.
Your culture is the lens through which you view your life. If you
change the lens, you change your outlook. Change the culture, and
everything else changes, including the future. Changing a culture is an
inside-out approach that transforms the place. Transformation can
never be brought in from the outside. Transformation is inside work,
and every church already possess the elements that can bring it about.
Because culture shapes the church, and leaders make the culture,
this book helps leaders work through cultural issues in their church,
and to find ways to change and incarnate the godly culture that they
would want. In this book are also questions and suggesstions that guide
the reader into looking at how things are, working out where you want
to go, and areas to focus on to take you there. In general, a church
that goes through a culture shift would likely go through the following:
1. Identify and believe God's promises about your church's potential.
2. Model kingdom culture personally.
3. Enlist allies to champion the culture shift.
4. Focus on "what we're becoming."
5. Compare the vision of the future to present reality.
6. Outline a specific, doable pathway.
7. Help it filter through the church, and learn from feedback you receive.
8. Stay focused on transformed people, and on those receptive to change.
9. Make heroes of people who best represent the kingdom values.
10. Celebrate every success, and give God the glory.
Hardcover, 256 pages
Bonus! For a limited time, when you purchase this book, you will receive a FREE mp3 download of a teleseminar with Ford Taylor and Os Hillman! A $20 value!
City Transformation: Pipedream or a Legitimate Goal?
With Ford Taylor and Os Hillman
Recorded February 10, 2011
Members of our Change Agent Network have FREE access to all teleseminars. Learn More
Transformation. It is a word
we have heard a lot about in the last decade. Can a city, a community, a nation
be transformed by God today? Can Christians have real influence in culture today?
These are questions many in the Body of Christ are wrestling with these days. What is required if we really
want to see change in our culture and our communities?
This teleseminar helps you understand how to view the topic of community,
city and nation transformation. Ford Taylor is a co-founder of Transformation
Cincinnati and a business leader. He share his personal experience with what
they have learned. Os Hillman has also been involved with many city
transformation initiatives and shares what he is seeing and has learned.
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