Creating a Healthier Church: Family Systems Theory, Leadership and Congregational Life (Creative Pastoral Care and Counseling Series)

Ronald W. Richardson helps us to understand how congregations function emotionally. Without being simplistic, he gives clear directions on how to improve their quality of life together and function more effectively in achieving mission goals. This book offers: A theory about human behavior that will aid understanding of how things can get out of control in the human community of the church; A practical set of leadership ideas and behaviors; Guidelines for how to behave in the midst of upsetting and conflictual circumstances; Personal steps that leaders in the church can take to become more positive forces for healing and cooperation.

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• Generation to Generation: Family Process in Church and Synagogue (The Guilford Family Therapy Series)
• Transitional Ministry Today: Successful Strategies for Churches and Pastors
• In Living Color: An Intercultural Approach to Pastoral Care and Counseling Second Edition (Practical Theology)
• Grief: Contemporary Theory and the Practice of Ministry
• Changing the Conversation: A Third Way for Congregations
• Listening and Caring Skills in Ministry: A Guide for Groups and Leaders
• Christianity After Religion: The End of Church and the Birth of a New Spiritual Awakening