Rev. Dr. Reggie McNeil is coming to Puget Sound to present:
Spiritual Leadership for the Present Future Church
Saturday, September 22, 2007, 9am – 3pm
North Creek Presbyterian Church
621 164th Street SE
Mill Creek, WA 98012
Visit http://www.npspresbytery.org for more details
Engage Reggie as a team or come on your own.
Event Fee:
$25 includes seminar, materials and lunch
$10 for North Puget Sound Presbyterians—includes lunch
$0 for Pastor and Elder commissioners to North Puget Sound Presbytery meeting on September 21. A donation for lunch would be appreciated.
Event sponsored by North Puget Sound Presbytery
PRESENT FUTURE by Reggie McNeal
Tough Questions for the Modern Church
What questions are you asking?
In The Present Future, Reggie McNeal asks 6 tough questions of leaders in the church:
Wrong Question:
How can we do church BETTER?
Tough Question:
How do we convert from Churchianity to Christianity?
Wrong Question:
How do we grow this church? (a.k.a. How do we get THEM to come to US?)
Tough Question:
How do we transform our Community? (a.k.a. How do we hit the streets with the Gospel?)
Wrong Question:
How do we turn members into ministers?
Tough Question:
How do we turn members into MISSIONARIES?
Wrong Question:
How do we develop church members?
Tough Question:
How do we develop followers of Jesus Christ?
Wrong Question:
How do we plan for the future?
Tough Question:
How do we PREPARE for the future?
Wrong Question:
How do we develop leaders for church work?
Tough Question:
How do we develop leaders for a Christian movement?
Reggie McNeal Reggie McNeal is the director of leadership development for the South Carolina Baptist Convention. He has been speaking and consulting with congregations and denominational leaders of all denominations throughout the country. Through his various leadership roles, from pastoring congregations to denominational positions to seminary classrooms to coach and consultant for thousands of spiritual leaders, he has been devoted to helping spiritual leaders. McNeal is the author of Revolution in Leadership: Training Apostles for Tomorrow’s Church (1998), along with A Work of Heart: Understanding How God Shapes Spiritual Leaders (2000), the best-selling The Present Future: Six Tough Questions for the Church (2003), and Practicing Greatness: Seven Disciplines of Extraordinary Spiritual Leaders (2006) from Jossey-Bass.
Book Description
In this provocative book, author, consultant, and church leadership developer Reggie McNeal debunks these and other old assumptions and provides an overall strategy to help church leaders move forward in an entirely different and much more effective way. In The Present Future, McNeal identifies the six most important realities that church leaders must address including: recapturing the spirit of Christianity and replacing “church growth” with a wider vision of kingdom growth; developing disciples instead of church members; fostering the rise of a new apostolic leadership; focusing on spiritual formation rather than church programs; and shifting from prediction and planning to preparation for the challenges of an uncertain world. McNeal contends that by changing the questions church leaders ask themselves about their congregations and their plans, they can frame the core issues and approach the future with new eyes, new purpose, and new ideas.