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Creating a Healthier Church: Family Systems Theory, Leadership, and Congregational Life is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this volume, 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...

there. You might be saying to yourself, “It’s just not the same.” All of this is part of the church system. And this church system is just one of many systems that we all belong to and that affect each other. A bad day at the office (the work system) can lead to a bad night at home (the family system). Roy Hanson’s relationships with congregational members are influenced by his relationship with his wife, his denominational executives, his pastor colleagues in other churches, his friends, and most
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