Survival Skills

1. It's All About Survival^2. Vision Skills^3. Communication Skills^4. Leadership Skills^5. Change Skills^6. Alignment Skills^7. Team Skills^8. Endurance Skills^143 Pages
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Remember black and white television? The Edsel? Fallout shelters? How about full-service gas stations? Once relevant to everyday life, these are now memories and museum fodder. Our culture continues on fast forward, and ideas and traditions quickly become obsolete. Like the Edsel, many churches come equipped with a rearview mirror as standard equipment. If church leaders aren't careful, they'll spend their time looking at where they've been instead of where they're going. In Survival Skills, Stan Toler and Glen Martin alert pastors to the need of keeping up with the times. Pastors will want to read this book to equip themselves to recognize and evaluate trends and social change so they can anticipate future needs. Survival Skills helps leaders develop the necessary expertise for new millennium ministry.
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Black and white television. Westerns. The Ford Edsel. Full-service gas stations. The cold war. The nuclear fallout shelter. Fifty years ago, these institutions were conerstones of culture. But now they're commemorated in museums and rarely affect everyday life. As the rate of change continues to accelerate in our fast-paced culture, many ideas, traditions, and establishments quickly become obsolete. If current trends continue, the church will be next. Just like the Ford Edsel whose time has come and gone, most churches are equipped with a 'rearview mirror.' And they often spend more time looking at where they came from, rather than where they are going. Pastors must keep up with the times. In Survivial Skills: Leading Your Church in a Changing World, Stan Toler and Glen Martin teach pastors to look at the trends and the times to anticipate the future and help them develop the survival skills necessary for new millennium ministry.
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