Culture shift : transforming your church from the inside out /
Robert Lewis, Wayne Cordeiro, with Warren Bird ; foreword by Erwin Raphael McManus.
- 1st ed.
- San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, 2005.
- xxiii, 227 pages ; 24 cm
- Jossey-Bass Leadership Network Series .
"A Leadership Network publication."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-207) and index.
Why culture matters -- Your destiny in seed form -- What you think is what you see -- Totems: identifying your church's culture -- How to shift your church's culture -- Divine partnership -- Identifying New Hope's totems -- Culture setters -- Plug-and-play subculture vs. authentic culture -- Creating and re-creating culture -- Identifying fellowship Bible's totems -- The power of a disciplined vision -- Learning to spot opportunity -- Courageous adjustments to safeguard the values -- Irresistible culture.
Culture shift, written for church leaders, ministers, pastors, ministry teams, and lay leaders, leads you through the process of identifying your church's distinctive culture, gives you practical tools to change it from the inside-out, and provides steps to keep your new culture aligned with your church's mission. Real transformation is not about working harder at what you're already doing or even copying another church's approach but about changing church culture at a foundational level.