Being the Body of Christ in the Age of Management

Being the Body of Christ in the Age of Management

Lyndon Shakespeare
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Author:  Lyndon Shakespeare
Condition:  New
Format:  Paperback
Pages:  238
Publisher:  Cascade Books
Year:  2016
ISBN:  9781498232104

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Large parts of this book suffer from frequent highlighting in yellow (mainly phrases and sentences rather than whole passages); otherwise in good or very good condition

"The church needs effective leaders." "We must be more missional." "Better organization is required." Such sentiments are commonplace among Christians concerned with the health and sustainability of their local church as well as the church universal. Over the past thirty years, the desire for more efficiently run, effectively led, and organizationally sound churches has contributed to an approach to thinking about the church in terms uncritically assumed from the business and management sector. This has given rise to treating the church as if it were just another social body in need of better organization. The question is, what happens when we apply the logic of management techniques to an organization that identifies as the body of Christ? Drawing on organizational theory, theological anthropology, and sacramental theology, this book navigates a path for Christians that avoids reducing the church to just another organization, while providing a vision for the church as the social body where all are invited to connect and be made members of Christ and each other. Such a vision provides an alternative to the social categorization that would define the church by its organizational character rather than its eschatological destiny.

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