A Multi-Generational Movement of Missional Leaders
by Alan Roxburgh
I have been practicing, writing, teaching and consulting on the themes of missional leadership for many years. Over those years it’s become clear that if we’re to cultivate a missional church we have to address the question of leadership. And if we are to see unfold among us the kinds of local missional communities we talk and write about then it is going to require a multi-generational movement of men and women committed to this journey. ...more
TRADITIONAL VS. THE EMERGENT CHURCH: Struggling with Structure and Looking for New Forms
by Alan Roxburgh
I was waiting between planes in Seattle reflecting on four days of interaction with various church organizations across the western seaboard of the US. In central California I met with a work group trying to understand and identify new directions for a denominational system faced with declining revenue, aging congregations and rapid discontinuity in terms of the rapidly changing ethnic make-up of the population. ...more |