Church Transfusion Changing Your Church Organically--From the Inside Out

by Cole, Neil; Helfer, Phil

• ISBN13: 9781118131282
• ISBN10: 1118131282
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-09-19
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

Challenges churches to transfuse themselves with the life-giving qualities and energy of the organic church movement In Church Transfusion Neil Cole (the foremost expert on organic church) teams up with his co-founder of Church Multiplication Associates, Phil Helfer, to revisit the themes from Cole's previous books. They show conventional church leaders how to use organic principles to heal their DNA and transfuse themselves with an entirely new energy, vision, and a more missional approach to what they are and what they do. Since established churches can't start from scratch the way new ones can, nor can they shift completely the way Cole's Church 3.0 proposed, Church Transfusion not only applies the organic principles for them but also gives tangible examples of how they do indeed work to bring change from the inside out. Offers a blueprint for applying organic principles to established churches to infuse them with renewed energy and vision Neil Cole is the author of Church 3.0 and Organic Church A new title in the Leadership Network series This book is Neil Cole's most powerful follow up to Organic Church.

Author Biography

Neil Cole is an experienced and innovative church planter and pastor. He is the cofounder and executive director of Church Multiplication Associates. He is the author of Church 3.0, Organic Church, and Journeys to Significance, all from Jossey-Bass.

Phil Helfer is the cofounder of Church Multiplication Associates and the pastor of Los Altos Grace Church. He is an expert on incorporating organic church principles into conventional churches.

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Table of Contents

Foreword xi
Dave Ferguson

Preface xiii
Neil Cole

Acknowledgments xvii

Part One: Change Is Possible—with God 1

1 So What’s the Difference? 3

2 Basic Organic Principles That Work in All Contexts 13

3 No Longer Business as Usual 24

4 Churches in Transfusion 42

Part Two: Implementing Change from the Inside Out 65

5 Dying as if Your Life Depended on It 67

6 Detoxifying from Dependence 82

7 How Small People Cause Big Problems 101

8 Leadershifts 114

9 Disciples, Disciples, Disciples 129

10 Water the Green Spot 136

11 Healthy Reproduction 154

12 New Measures of Success 170

13 The Price of Transfusion 185

Conclusion: Equipping People for Ministry in the World 196

Notes 199

The Authors 205

Index 207