A door set open : grounding change in mission and hope / Peter L. Steinke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steinke, Peter L.

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church renewal.

Mission of the church.

Hope--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Hope.

System theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 p.)

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2023.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Campus eBookstore Inc - CEI, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

We resist change less when we associate it with mission and fortify it with hope. So argues longtime congregational consultant Peter Steinke in his fourth book, A Door Set Open, as he explores the relationship between the challenges of change and our own responses to new ideas and experiences. Steinke builds on a seldom-explored principle posited by the late Rabbi Edwin Friedman: the 'hostility of the environment' is proportionate to the 'response of the organism.' The key, Steinke says, is not the number or strength of the stressors in the system--anxiety, poor conditions, deteriorating value

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: The Context; There Once Was a World; Emotional Sysems and the New Anxiety; So That You May Hope Again; Part II: The Mission; The Challenge of Change; The Making of a Mission Culture; Joining God's New Creation; Part III: The Response; The People of the Way; Where to Touch the Elephant; A Different Future; Epilogue: A Meditation; Notes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-141).

Print Version Record.

ISBN:

979-88-8182-081-7

1-56699-455-1

OCLC:

1474117925