Leadership, God's Agency, and Disruptions <subTitle>Confronting Modernity's Wager</subTitle> </titleInfo> <titleInfo> <title/> </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Branson, Mark Lau</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">1:2</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>Cascade Books</publisher> <dateIssued>2021</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>225tr.</extent> <extent>Paperback, Illustration</extent> <extent>23 cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>Argues that “modernity’s wager” has shaped the leadership practices of church leadership, leading to a reliance on technique-driven strategies rather than responding to God’s agency. Mark Lau Branson and Alan Roxburgh propose that what we are seeing is the failure of “Modernity’s Wager,” the bet that we can live well, and even build churches without God. Sure, we don’t say this, but often we believe we are working for God or even without God rather than trusting in and responding to the initiatives of God. They contend that this secular outlook has had a corrosive influence on church leadership. They advocate for a different kind of leadership premised on God’s agency–indeed that the very disruptions we face may be invitations to step into and join what God is doing. Leadership is standing in the “space between” where we do not control but discern the ways of the Spirit of God.</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">Mark Lau Branson, Alan J. Roxburgh</note> <subject> <topic>Mission of the church</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Leadership Religious aspects Christianity</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">248.4</classification> <classification authority="ddc">B816-M35</classification> <identifier type="isbn">9781725271746</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/14959/71ww-tmzaul-sy466.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/14959/71ww-tmzaul-sy466.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2024-0</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119071426.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>