Reverse Mentoring How Young Leaders Can Transform the Church and Why We Should Let Them

by Creps, Earl

• ISBN13: 9780470188989
• ISBN10: 0470188987
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-29
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Earl Creps is prominent in Pentecostal Christian and emergent church circles. He has been a featured speaker at emergent conventions and is known for his work in connecting the younger generation of postmoderns with their Boomer predecessors. He has been a tireless marketer for his first book with us, Off-Road Disciplines. In this new book Creps wants to show older church leaders the urgency and importance of learning from younger leaders who are more conversant with culture, technology, and social context. He wishes to make the benefits of the r-mentoring relationships more accessible to older leaders so that their lives and ministries can be transformed. Earl Creps new book is a topic of interest both inside and outside the church as older leaders realize that theyre not getting a lot of what is going onfrom iPods to IM to blogging to the mindsets of younger people who look at the world entirely differently. Earl has been asked by Ministry Today to write an article on the subject, which will seed the market. And younger leaders will help drive sales on this book because of their own felt need around the subject. This topic has also been buzzing in general leadership/management circles as well--see Warren Bennis Geeks and Geezers.

Author Biography

Earl Creps has been a pastor, ministries consultant, and university professor. Along the way, Creps earned a Ph.D. in communication at Northwestern University and a doctor of ministry degree in leadershipat AGTS. He is the author of Off-Road Disciplines from Jossey-Bass.
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Table of Contents

About Leadership Network	p. xiii
Introduction: It Takes a Child to Raise a Village	p. xv
Facing Reality
Identity: "I Am Not Cool"	p. 3
Culture: "I Don't Get It"	p. 19
Ministry: "I Am Not Relevant"	p. 33
Cultivating Spirituality
Vision: Seeing Beyond Ourselves	p. 49
Wisdom: Knowing Beyond Our Information	p. 61
Relationship: Befriending Beyond Our Peers	p. 75
Experiencing Practicality
Evangelism: Learning from Outsiders	p. 91
Communication: Learning from Listeners	p. 105
Leadership: Learning from Followers	p. 119
Developing Reciprocity
Proteges: Developing R-Mentoring Relationships	p. 135
Processes: Embedding R-Mentoring in Organizations	p. 151
Interview: Joel and Rachel Mentor Earl and Janet	p. 169
Epilogue: I Was So Much Older Then; I'm Younger Than That Now	p. 179
Notes	p. 185
Acknowledgments	p. 199
About the Author	p. 201
Index	p. 203
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