Canoeing the Mountains, Tod Bolsinger, PhD
Canoeing the Mountains, Tod Bolsinger, PhD
8 Rating(s)
List: $17.99 | Sale: $12.59
Club: $8.99

Canoeing the Mountains
Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory

Author: Tod Bolsinger, PhD

Narrator: Tom Parks

Unabridged: 8 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/13/2017

Synopsis

In this practical guidebook, Tod Bolsinger relies on the metaphor of Lewis and Clark to reveal how you can lead your congregation through the new landscape we've found ourselves in. Like Lewis and Clark-who had to adapt once they found the Rocky Mountains instead of a waterway to the Pacific Ocean-you too may feel like you are leading in a cultural context that you were not expecting. You may even feel like your training holds you back more often than it carries you along. Drawing from his extensive experience as a pastor and a consultant, Bolsinger brings decades of expertise in guiding churches and organizations through uncharted territory. He offers a combination of illuminating insights and practical tools to reimagine what effective leadership looks like in our rapidly changing world. If you're going to scale the mountains of ministry, you'll need to leave behind the canoes and find new navigational tools. Reading this book will set you on the right course toward leading with conf idence and courage.

About Tod Bolsinger, PhD

Tod Bolsinger, PhD, is the vice president for vocation and formation and an assistant professor of practical theology at his alma mater, Fuller Theological Seminary. The author of It Takes a Church to Raise a Christian: How the Community of God Transforms Lives and Show Time: Living Down Hypocrisy by Living Out the Faith, he served as a pastor for more than twenty-five years and is now a frequent speaker, blogger, and consultant concerning transformational leadership.

About Tom Parks

Tom Parks has always enjoyed giving voice to stories. He has received several Earphones Awards and been nominated for Audies. An active workshop leader and in-demand speaker to corporations and religious organizations going through various transitional processes, he also performs as a drummer on the Midwest musical-theater circuit.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bob on March 27, 2018

Summary: Using the story of Lewis and Clark, Bolsinger explores the kind of leadership needed in the uncharted territory of our rapidly changing cultural landscape. "Seminary didn't train me for this." "Our church is dying and I have no clue what to do." Over and over, Tod Bolsinger encountered these......more

Goodreads review by Howard on November 14, 2017

Overview of current MBA thinking on "change management" applied to churches. You'll think it's great if you think churches should be run by MBAs as businesses.......more

Goodreads review by Joel on March 05, 2018

No one is more surprised than me that a book about "Christian leadership tactics" is getting a five-star review here. Seriously, it's saying something that I loved the book that much, because I typically avoid anything that smacks of "Church, Inc." like the plague. But Tod Bolsinger has broken that......more

Goodreads review by Kris on September 01, 2024

I didn't realize this book was primarily for Christian pastors, and those leading large Christian organizations. I read it in the hope it might be applicable to lay leaders too. And my conclusion is… kind of? It feels mostly like platitudes. Phrases like: “be agile” or “build collaboration” or “defin......more

Goodreads review by Tim on March 06, 2024

You’re better off reading Edwin Friedman’s a Failure of Nerve and Stephen Ambrose’s Lewis and Clark book. Both are significantly better. Friedman’s book is life changing. This book is pretty narrowly about helping an older church shift to become missional. If that's your scenario, this book is for yo......more

Add to Cart
Add to Wish List