Present Future, Reggie McNeal
Present Future, Reggie McNeal
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Present Future
Six Tough Questions for the Church

Author: Reggie McNeal

Narrator: Reggie McNeal

Unabridged: 5 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/01/2007

Synopsis

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 shift, from prediction and planning to preparation for the challenges in 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.

About Reggie McNeal

Reggie McNeal is the missional leadership specialist for Leadership Network. Drawing on twenty years of leadership roles in local congregations and his work over the last two decades with thousands of clergy and church leaders, McNeal counsels local churches, denominational groups, seminaries and colleges, and parachurch organizations in their leadership development needs.
Leadership Network, a division of OneHundredX, seeks to accelerate the impact of 100X leaders. Since 1996, Leadership Network Publications has presented thoroughly researched and practical concepts from leading thinkers, practitioners, and pioneering churches.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Steven on March 08, 2021

This book is almost 20 years old, and while the Pandemic of 2020 has changed things in the world, much less the church, forever, what McNeal had to say 20 years ago still has value and worth as we try to figure out what a Post-Pandemic Church might look like. I bought this book many years ago, at our......more

Goodreads review by Mike (the Paladin) on August 05, 2012

This is an interesting book and says some things about the state of the current Church (maybe the word congregations might fit better) that I've already been thinking. I suppose that always helps to up the rating of a book when it goes into a subject you tend to or partially agree with. I won't take a......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on January 21, 2016

This is the book I wish I had read several years ago! Easily understandable, practical and applicable! I just found a great way to post all the highlights from my kindle (116 of them!) I feel like I have been playing catchup in trying to bring my older congregation to face the new realities of the wo......more

Goodreads review by Robbie on June 10, 2014

Reggie McNeal’s book, The Present Future: Six Tough Questions for the Church, addresses the need for the church to move from program driven buildings and bureaucracy back to missional service and disciple making. In this book, McNeal looks at how the church has been inwardly focused and more like a “......more

Goodreads review by Jason on February 17, 2013

The Church in North America is slowly drying up as congregations age and endowments from previous generations dwindle. Many churches have responded by attempting to preserve their churches rather than advancing the Faith once received. In this work Reggie McNeal sounds a clarion call for the North A......more

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