Renaissance or Ruin The Final Saga of a Once Great Church

Power politics is killing America's Mainline Churches. Clique cultures destroy the faith of millions of people. This text analyzes scathing exposes of life in the church. Readers travel from prehistory tribal Europe to view today's group behavioral patterns, spawned thousands of years before Christianity. Discover how power blocs in the House of the Faithful generate xenophobia - racism - isolationism; all anomalous to the life of Jesus. These intractable patterns can be broken only by Proactive Leadership. The book offers "doable" plans to develop Leadership where none exists. Methods used to Reinvent world-class corporations are enlisted & recast for use by local churches. This spiritual, not religious, book is a practical tool that leads readers through the most effective Strategic Planning process ever devised for churches. Trigger Points, ending each chapter, foster group discussion. Exciting case studies make for "novel-like" reading, while extensive annotations & exhaustive Bibliography render it a valuable scholarly work. The 426 pages contain a plethora of data from the field, interposed with material generated as a part of a research project at Boston Univ. For pastors, sociologists, church leaders, members, & "dropouts." Order: Renaissance Inst. Press, (800) 944-8023, 24 Cathedral Pl., St. Augustine, FL 32084, or Baker and Taylor.Minshall, Britt is the author of 'Renaissance or Ruin The Final Saga of a Once Great Church' with ISBN 9780964277304 and ISBN 0964277301.