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These is our list, send your book suggestions to admin (at) micn.org!
Missional
 Church on the Other Side, The
Brian McLaren
Drawing from daily, down-to-earth pastoral experience, the author offers 13 strategies for navigating the modern/postmodern transitions that many missional churches face. Learn the critical distinctions between renewed, restored, and reinvented churches. Discover the importance of redefining your mission, of finding fresh ways to conceive of and communicate the gospel, and of entering the postmodern world by understanding it, engaging it, and debugging your from modern "viruses."
 ChurchNext: Quantum Changes in How We Do Ministry
Eddie Gibbs
Reaching today's world requires a new mind set for church leaders. The author gives nine areas in which our thinking must be transformed in order to be effective. Very stimulating reading.
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Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God
Dallas Willard
Spiritual formation for the missional church is different than what has become commonplace in churches today. Missional is a kingdom-oriented worldview. This book presents a compelling arguement for missional Christian discipleship.
 Post-Modern Pilgrims: First Century Passion for the 21st Century Church
Leonard Sweet
A description of the postmodern church.
 Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America
Darrell Guder, ed.
The book issues a firm challenge for the church to recover its missional call to North Americans. The authors examine today's secular culture and the church's loss of dominance in contemporary society. They then present a biblically based theology that takes seriously the church's missional vocation and draw out the consequences of this theology for the structure and institutions of the church.
International Church
Expatriate Ministry: Inside the Church of the Outsiders
David Pederson
I have about thirty copies left of the first printing. I don't know where else it is available because it is presently out of print. However, people can connect with me directly for a copy. USD$12 plus postage. E-mail: ddpederson@juno.com
Cross-Cultural Living
Third Culture Kids: The experience of growing up among worlds
David Pollock & Ruth Van Reken
This books speaks to the challenges and rewards of multicultural childhood: the joy of discovery and heartbreaking loss, its effect on maturing and personal identity, and the difficulty in making the transition home. A must for those with kids, or working with parents, overseas.
Strange Virtues: Ethics in a Multicultural World
Bernard Adeney
One of the first books to comprehensively consider ethics across cultures, addressing the ethical import of other religions and gender relations, exploring how the Bible and culture interact to produce ethical stances, and examing such particular case studies as bribery. Valuable for anyone working crossculturally.
Cross-cultural Conflict: Buidling relationships for effective ministry
Duane Elmer
Conflict is inevidable, the question is How do we handle it? And here Christians from different cultures disagree. All point to the Bible to back their position. What do we do? This book provides a model for getting to cultural values and resolving conflicts.
Leadership
Global Literacies: Lessons on business leadership and national cultures
Robert Rosen
The author's research finds leadership universals that every world-class leaders needs to practice. Also, that in today's interconnected world culture doesn't matter less, it matters more.
Global Explorers: The next generation of leaders
J. Stewart Black, etc.
The authors discovered that leadership success is driven by a few core characterists, regardless of country, industry or company. They are perspective, inquisitiveness, character, and savvy - all of which can be developed with their helpful ideas. Includes a Global Explorer assessment.
A Work of the Heart: Understanding How God Shapes Spiritual Leaders
Reggie McNeal
One of the best books on spiritual leadership. It's not a Christianized leadership traits book like so many on the market. The author emphasizes the heart - the spiritual center - in leadership formation. Plenty of practical help for spiritual leaders in this book.
Leaders Who Make a Difference: Essential Strategies for Meeting the Nonprofit Challenge
Burt Nanus (preface) & Stephen M. Dobbs
Finally a book on leadership aimed at non-profits that is more than just business advice rehashed. The authors explore the leader's roles as a visionary, strategist, change agent, coach,
politician, and campaigner. They also take up issues of accountability and the question of how results are measured in nonprofit organizations.
Coaching for Performance: Growing People, Performance and Purpose
John Whitmore
Clear, concise, hands-on, this guide is written in coaching style. Now in an updated 3rd edition.
Leading Congregational Change : A Practical Guide for the Transformational Journey
Jim Herrington, Mike Bonem, James Harold Furr
Combines John Kotter's eight change steps with learning organization principles to create a holistic, yet realistic plan for changing a church. Don't miss the workbook.
Church Planting Movements
David Garrison
Very helpful booklet about the dynamics church planting movements. At the link above you can download a pdf or Microsoft Word version. Read it online or order a printed version from the International Mission Board.
Evangelism
Planting New Churches in a Postmodern Age
Ed Stetze
The author lays out a case for missional church planting and then describes the process to plant healthy new churches. He combines the theological and the practical in one book. The book looks at cultures and how to reach persons in those cultures through the tools within the cultures themselves. It also provides a new look at emerging trends in churches reaching postmoderns. Then, it provides step by step instructions about how to plant churches in today's world.
Urban Ministry
A Theology As Big As the City
Ray Bakke
A biblical study of just how big God's view of the city is.
Planting and Growing Urban Churches : From Dream to Reality
Harvie M. Conn, ed.
A collection of articles from the best practitioners in urban church planting.
Urban Ministry: The Kingdom, the City, & the People of God
Harvie M. Conn, Manuel Ortiz
A biblical study of city, then application, including leadership, by two urban practitioners.
A Heart for the City: Effective Ministries to the Urban Community
John Fuder, ed.
Rich case studies, examples and models by many different urban ministers.
One New People: Models for Developing a Multiethnic Church
Manuel Ortiz
Makes a case for building churches that cross racial, ethnic and cultural lines.
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