Aubrey Malphurs, Pouring New Wine into Old Wineskins: How to Change Your Church Without Destroying It. Baker, 1993.
Referenced in: Leading Change and Transition
LifeandLeadership.com Summary
Malphurs includes all of the standard information in most guides to congregational change. He emphasizes some concepts not covered as extensively in other volumes on the subject. Chapters 3-4 help church leaders assess their own capacity as change agents using profiles such as DISC and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Chapters 5-6 summarize Everett Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovation on the types of people who resist and embrace change. Chapter 7 offers good insight on the conditions that make a church more receptive to change. The book is good overall on change perspectives.
From the Publisher
In ‘Pouring New Wine Into Old Wineskins’, Aubrey Malphus classifies church members into four groups: early adopters, middle adopters, late adopters, and never adopters. Church members may resist change and have a difficult time responding to new ideas. Understanding people and biblical principles for renewal can pave the way to implementing a five-stage revitalization process. Worksheets to help in the process are included.
About the Author
Aubrey is a visionary with a deep desire to influence a new as well as an established generation of leaders through his classroom, pulpit, consulting, and writing ministries.
He is involved in a number of ministries ranging from church planting and growth to leadership development and church revitalization. He has pastored three churches, traveled broadly, and is the author of more than twenty books and articles on leadership and church ministry.
Currently Aubrey is Senior Professor of Pastoral Ministries at Dallas Seminary and the president of the Malphurs Group and is a trainer and consultant to churches, denominations, and ministry organizations throughout North America and Europe. His research and teaching interests include church planting, church growth, and leadership development.
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