How to Lead in Church Conflict Healing Ungrieved Loss

Name: How to Lead in Church Conflict Healing Ungrieved Loss
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ISBN: 9781426742330

ISBN-10: 1426742339

ISBN-13: 9781426742330

Edition: 2012

Authors: K. Brynolf Lyon, Dan Moseley

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The hurts of people often spill over into the life of the congregation causing conflict.Your chair of finance is going through a nasty divorce and is mad at God. The mother of one your Sunday School teachers is chronically ill. A major factory in your community has relocated, taking with it many of your church members’ jobs. And you wonder why the church council meetings are so rancorous and your church is mired in unproductive conflict. What do you do? How should you lead? Hurting people have a difficult time making caring, loving decisions—decisions that may outlast and outlive them. Too often, the church is held captive to the voices of people who grieve and mourn, who have so much…

Book details

List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Publication date: 4/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 168
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English




Leading in Conflict: An Introduction to the Issues


Some Important Things about Leadership


Some Important Things about Conflict


Some Important Things about Loss and Grief


Some Important Things about Ministry


Who We Are and How We Got Interested in This Topic


What Is Coming?



Failing to Find What We Didn't Know We Needed: Three Stories


Joining First Community Church


Living with Trauma


Old and New Faith


A Look Ahead


Spirituality and the Failure to Grieve



Taking and Being Taken by a Role: Getting Askew and Getting Aright


Hirschhorn on Taking a Role


Emotional Regulation and the Meaning Resources of the Congregation


Modes of Generating Experience


The Group-as-a-Whole


Scapegoats, (Un)Authorized Others, and the Social Unconscious


Mentalizing, Distortion, and Rigidity


Vocation and Role



Failing to Grieve and the Spiritual Discipline of Learning from Experience


The Problem of Learning from Experience


Adaptive Learning and the One Who Knows


Love, Hate, Grief, and the Vulnerability of Learning from Experience


Learning and Forgiveness


Leadership, Followership, and the Discipline of Learning from Experience


A Methodological Note: What Are We Learning from When We Learn from Experience?


Back Where We Began



Shaping the Congregational Journey: Losing Your Way to New Life


The Sanctuary


Naming Losses


Feeling Pain


Being Angry


Remembering


Feeling Guilt and Shame


Forgiving


Giving Thanks


Playing


Practicing


Becoming New



Preaching and Practicing Liturgy: Resources for Leading Congregations in Conflict


Liturgy and Formation


The Liturgy as Container


Liturgy and Preaching


Gathering


Listening


Making Offering


Departing in Peace


Final Comments


Notes