Beverly A. Thompson and George B. Thompson, Jr., Grace for the Journey: Practices and Possibilities for In-Between Times. Alban Institute, 2011.
Referenced in: Leading Change and Transition
LifeandLeadership.com Summary
This book equips leaders to help their churches through the confusing and discouraging wilderness times. Another value is to help ministers live amid the disparity between where a church is now and where it needs to be. Often, fueled by frustration, a minister anxiously embarks on changes that are ill-conceived, meet with strong resistance, and cause harm. This volume helps ministers navigate the in-between time more healthfully through such practices as attention, discernment, imagination, and articulation.
From the Publisher
Every community of faith journeys through periods of transition. In Grace for the Journey: Practices and Possibilities for In-Between Times, authors Beverly and George Thompson invite congregations to open themselves to the grace-filled possibilities that accompany these in-between periods. Drawing on biblical examples and contemporary experience, the authors invite the community of faith to see transitional times as an opportunity to develop deeper spiritual awareness of God’s call on its communal life—a call that open up fresh potential even as it calls us to consider what familiar things may need to change.
As pastors and teachers with experience in congregations across the country, the Thompsons serve as your travel guides, accompanying you and your congregation as you walk through the wilderness of transitional times to the hope-filled possibilities on the horizon.
About the Authors
Beverly and George Thompson serve as a ministry team as pastors, seminary teachers, and authors. George serves on the faculty of the Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC), Atlanta and is a founding member of the Academy of Religious Leadership. Among his book titles are How to Get Along with Your Church and Church on the Edge of Somewhere. Beverly teaches religious leadership at ITC and is the author of A Spiritual Companion to ‘How to Get Along with Your Church’. Currently the Thompsons share pastoral responsibilities for Dahlonega Presbyterian Church in Georgia.
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