Adaptive Leadership Series

By ministry_matters
Created on October 6th, 2011

About This Bin

Excerpts from books in the Adaptive Leadership Series, a collection of books providing provocative assessments of The United Methodist Church's Call to Action. For more on the Call to Action and General Conference coverage, visit www.ministrymatters.com/gc2012.

Articles Change from the Edge
- By Rudy Rasmus and Dottie Escobedo-Frank
- Posted on October 4th, 2011
Change does not happen from the center. It happens, almost every time, from the edge. The center may hope for and call for change, but here’s the problem with that: it…
Articles The Coming Death Tsunami
- By Lovett H. Weems Jr.
- Posted on October 5th, 2011
In the past several years, the world has witnessed the horror of two massive tsunamis, first in Indonesia and more recently in Japan. The loss of life and devastation surpass what …
Articles Contagious Christianity
- By George G. Hunter III
- Posted on September 27th, 2011
What makes Christianity contagious? We are sufficiently familiar with some of the answers: Contagious Christianity is imaginative, engaging, enthusiastic, and growing. Those …
Articles Caught by the Call
- By Virginia O. Bassford
- Posted on October 10th, 2011
My Daddy is the reason I love to fish. He loved to fish – I don’t think it was just to get away from Momma – he really loved to fish, and he shared that love…
Articles Rules for Rule Breaking
- By Gil Rendle
- Posted on October 11th, 2011
Movement rule breakers see greater purpose and therefore risk different behaviors or practices for missional ends. Many of our local church and denominational leaders like to see…