The Sky Is Falling: Leaders Lost in Transition

by Alan J. Roxburgh

This is more than a book, it is a manifesto, a proposal for a new way of imagining a common life together as the pilgrim people of God seeking to fulfill God s purposes for the world in our time. If we need new kinds of churches, we cannot develop them with old kinds of leaders. We ourselves need to become those new kinds of leaders, even as we all look to the next generations to help them be formed in new apprenticeships in the kinds of skills this book describes. Alan Roxburgh s most radical and powerful having new kinds of churches with new kinds of leaders is not the point. In the end, even though we in the church talk and talk (and write and write) about church, church, church, church ... it s not about the church. The church exists for something bigger than itself. Understanding that one thing alone will be worth your expense, time, and effort in turning this page and reading on with an open mind and an open heart. Taken from foreward and endorsements by Brian McClaren & Tim Keel

Genres: Leadership

187 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2006

About the author

Alan Roxburgh is a pastor, teacher, writer and consultant with more than 30 years experience in church leadership, consulting and seminary education. Alan has pastored congregations in a small town, the suburbs, the re-development of a downtown urban church and the planting of other congregations. He has directed an urban training center and served as a seminary professor and the director of a center for mission and evangelism. Alan teaches as an adjunct professor in seminaries in the USA, Australia and Europe. In addition to his books listed here on Amazon, Alan was also a member of the writing team that authored "Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America".

Through The Missional Network, Alan leads conferences, seminars and consultations with denominations, congregations and seminaries across North America, Asia, Europe, Australia and the UK. Alan consults with these groups in the areas of leadership for missional transformation and innovating missional change across denominational systems. Along with the team at TMN, he provides practical tools and resources for leaders of church systems and local congregations.

When not traveling or writing, Alan enjoys mountain biking, hiking, cooking and hanging out with Jane and their five grandchildren as well as drinking great coffee in the Pacific North West.

Reviews

[Dean · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent book for all those who want to understand why churches all over the country are imploding (I know of three in just the last three months, two of them in Austin). The culture is rapidly changing, but the leaders in traditional churches are refusing to change and the churches are suffering because of their refusal, or inability, to adapt (thus the subtitle, Leaders Lost in Transition). The answer is to jettison the failed CEO model of the past and adopt the more flexible, humble and collaborative model of the early church. I don't imagine that many leaders of traditional churches will enjoy this book, or even understand it, because they are so wedded to the hierarchical authority structures of the past. That's a shame because this book offers the most accurate picture of what is happening in our culture (and church culture) and offers so much wisdom about making this transition responsibly.

[Christopher Brown · Rating 2 out of 5]

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