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Journey Archives
By the time you read this I will be on vacation, so I am spending some time today gathering up a bag load of books to take to the beach. Reading is recreation for me, and I personally enjoy many different genres. I take the time to write today to tell you about several books you might want to take on your vacation or add to your list of books to read in the coming months. The first book comes from one of our Leadership Network team members, Eric Swanson. The Externally Focused Church has just been released by Group in the past month. Written by Eric and pastor Rick Rusaw of Lifebridge Church in Longmont, Colorado, this book lays out the stories of dozens of churches that have chosen to transform their communities by serving them with Christ's love. Those of you who have downloaded our "Ten Paradigms of Community Transformation" free paper from our web site will recognize the themes and see an expansion of the ideas in the book. Many of the stories, examples and thoughts are derived from some of the experiences with our Externally Focused Churches Leadership Community. For those of you who are thinking about getting involved with our Leadership Communities, this is a good opportunity to check out their progress in book form. This book is short enough to be read in a few hours but deep enough to make you think of how your church can tap into some of these very important ideas for the future. For a preview chapter, click here. You can get a copy through your bookstore, Amazon or the Group web site. For those who have been around Leadership Network for a long while, you might remember a beautiful fold out chart that featured the Millennium Matrix model, developed by Rex Miller. This chart described the trends of history when it came to church understandings of Worship, Architecture, the Nature of Truth and Faith and other ideas. It is also the most requested reprint that we have ever had in our history, and can be accessed by clicking here. Just released this week, and the latest in our Jossey-Bass/Leadership Network book series, is a new book by Rex titled The Millennium Matrix. In his book, Rex elaborates on the chart and also provides a great discussion and learning tool to help believers understand how the past can help inform the future. The first half of the book walks the reader through an understanding of how our culture arrived to where it is today; the second half speaks to navigating the church into the future to address the culture. If you want to see a few chapters, click here. You can also purchase this book at this same online location, and, if you use our discount code XM173, you will receive a 30% discount on this and any of our other Leadership Network books. I also had a chance in the past week to read two good books by some Leadership Network pastors. The first was Less is More Leadership: 8 Secrets to How to Lead and Still Have a Life by Dale Burke and published by Harvest House. Dale is the Senior Pastor of First Evangelical Free Church in Fullerton, California. I think Dale's book is great for large church pastors in helping them focus on the right things. The second book was Serious Times: Making Your Life Matter in An Urgent Day by the pastor of Mecklenburg Community Church, James Emery White. This book is a good blend of history, accessible philosophy and practicality on addressing how believers need to rise to the challenge of modern thought and address it head on. This book is published by Intervarsity. FREE OFFER
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