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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...

FIGURE 5 It can be overwhelming to think of the church as a place where all of these mobiles (not just individuals) come together. But this is a fairly accurate picture of what is happening and helps to explain the tremendous complexity of church life and the emotionally powerful experiences people have there. We all come into the church with a huge number of important connections, which, if ignored, make church life more difficult and less satisfying. Effective church leaders recognize the reality
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