Bishop The Art of Questioning Authority by an Authority in Question

Name: Bishop The Art of Questioning Authority by an Authority in Question
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ISBN: 9781426742293

ISBN-10: 1426742290

ISBN-13: 9781426742293

Edition: 2012

Authors: William H. Willimon

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As a church leader, it’s easy to make the wrong move and find yourself in a bad position.What to teach; How to teach; What to do, were the three questions Wesley employed at his first conferences. In sixty previous books Will Willimon has worked the first two. This book is of the What to do? genre. Many believe the long decline of The United Methodist Church is a crisis of effective leadership. Willimon takes this problem on. As an improbable bishop, for the last eight years he has laid hands on heads, made ordinands promise to go where he sends them, overseen their ministries, and acted as if this were normal. Here is his account of what he has learned and – more important – what The…

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List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Publication date: 4/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.43" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

William H. Willimon is Dean of the Chapel and Professor of Christian Ministry at Duke University. He is the author (or co-author) of many books, including The Truth About God; Lord, Teach Us; Resident Aliens; and Where Resident Aliens Live(all with Stanley Hauerwas); and The Search for Meaning. He lives in Durham, NC.



Foreword


Introduction



Body of Christ in Motion


Leading and Managing the Body of Christ


Leadership in Context: Alabama



Summoned to Be Bishop


The Ministry of Oversight


The Peculiarity of Christian Leadership



Bishops Sending Pastors


Making Good Decisions about Clergy Deployment


Getting Off to a Good Start


Exiting Pastors



Bishops Cultivating Fruitfulness


The Peril of Good News


Fruitful Fidelity


Watching Over One Another in Love


Accountability


Counting and Accountability as Wesleyan Virtues


Call to Action



Bishops Leading Change


Taking Risks, Changing Lives


Not Leaving Well Enough Alone


How People Transition through Change


Grace to Change


Self-differentiated Leaders



Bishops Body Building


Truth Now


Church in Motion


Loving the Body


Loving Institutions



Bishops Preaching


Listening like a Bishop


Talking like a Bishop


Making Good Decisions



Bishops Teaching


Adaptive Leadership


Sick Systems?


Learning to Be a Bishop



Bishops in Council


Bishop in Motion


Election of Bishops



Bishops as Gift of God to Wesleyan Christianity


My church Languishes in an Executorial Crisis


Christ as a Leadership Crisis


Notes


Index of Names