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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...

6 FOOLISHNESS AND WISDOM IN CHURCH LEADERSHIP For wisdom is better than jewels, and all that you may desire cannot compare with her. (Proverbs 8:11) And [Jesus] grew and became strong, filled with wisdom; and the favor of God was upon him. (Luke 2:40) THE BASIC INGREDIENTS OF FOOLISHNESS AND WISDOM: FUSION AND DIFFERENTIATION Both congregations in chapter 1 faced the same situation: a cold church building and backed-up sewers. Each experienced a certain amount of anxiety about the situation, and
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