Alan Nelson and Gene Appel, How to Change Your Church Without Killing It. Word Publishing, 2000. Referenced in: Leading Change and Transition LifeandLeadership.com Summary Nelson and Appel draw upon extensive research as well as their own experience to help leaders manage change and transition, from pre-work to the point in which the new realities are
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
Michael Jinkins and Deborah Bradshaw Jinkins, Power and Change in Parish Ministry: Reflections on the Cure of Souls. Wipf and Stock Publishers, 1999. Referenced in: Leading Change and Transition LifeandLeadership.com Summary The unique contribution of this volume is helping ministers assess just how much power (ability to influence outcomes) or influence they have within the
William Chris Hobgood, Welcoming Resistance. Alban Institute, 2001. Referenced in: Leading Change and Transition LifeandLeadership.com Summary Hobgood defines resistance as energy that rises up to counteract change in a system. He suggests that resistance can appear in at least three forms: intentionally antagonistic, emotional and reactive, and rational and probing. Antagonistic forms require a special
Peter M. Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, Betty Sue Flowers, Presence. Human Purpose and the Field of the Future. Crown Business, 2008. Referenced in: Leading Change and Transition LifeandLeadership.com Summary In our time, the focus is not on linear problem-solving processes, but the capacity of groups, even congregations to “access, individually and collectively, our
Michael Armour and Don Browning, Systems-Sensitive Leadership: Empowering Diversity Without Polarizing the Church. 2nd edition. College Press Publishing Company, 2000. Referenced in: Change Concepts and Theories LifeandLeadership.com Summary Armour and Browning apply the Gravesian Theory of Intrapersonal Systems, named after the late Dr. Clare W. Graves, who before his death in 1986 taught at Union
Lynn Anderson, Navigating the Winds of Change: How to Manage Change in the Church. Howard Publishing, 1994. Referenced in: Change Concepts and Theories LifeandLeadership.com Summary Books on congregational change usually have a brief shelf-life, because while there are many timeless principles of effective change, each new era places the punctuation marks differently on that process.
David A. Nadler, Robert B. Shaw, A. Elise Walter and Associates. Discontinuous Change: Leading Organizational Transformation. Jossey-Bass, 1995. Referenced in: Change Concepts and Theories LifeandLeadership.com Summary This book is academic, but church leaders willing to wade through it will be exposed to a primary source of change theory found in the literature of complex congregational
Leading Transition and Change in the Church Part of the LifeandLeadership.com resources for church leaders on Transition and Change in the Church. Introduction Change Process, Strategy Leading Transition, the “The Human Side” and Internal Adjustments of Change Other Helpful Works on Change and Transition Related Ministry Resources Introduction Providing leadership for change in the church
Change in the Church – Creating Receptiveness & Overcoming Resistance Part of the LifeandLeadership.com resources for church leaders on Transition and Change in the Church. Introduction Change Receptiveness & Resistance in Leaders Change Receptiveness & Resistance in Churches Related Ministry Resources Introduction Perhaps the most difficult task for Christian leaders relative to change in the
