I Refuse to Lead a Dying Church - Print

I Refuse to Lead a Dying Church (2nd ed.)

Paul Nixon

Soft cover 128pp
1.cm H x 21.3cm L x 13.7cm W (0.18 kgs)
ISBN 9780829801040
Pilgrim Press (2024)

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God has called all of us to lead healthy, growing, spiritual churches. For this very reason, Paul Nixon refused to lead a dying church.

He holds onto fierce hope that life and resurrection are choices the Church and its leaders can still make.

Nixon invites you to join his commitment in refusing, ever again, to lead a dying church. This commitment entails six choices, choosing:

• Life over death
• Community over isolation
• Fun over drudgery
• Bold over mild
• Frontier over fortress, and
• Now rather than later.

“Be warned: Nixon’s prose is flinty stuff, throwing off sparks from every page. Where God has fueled a leader’s heart with holy restlessness, these sparks threaten to ignite missionary risks and decisions.” Alice Mann, consultant in congregational development

“Nixon helps any pastor ask: Why would someone wake up on a Sunday morning and say, ‘I think I’ll go to church today’? Timely and transformative.”  Nancy Nelson Elsenheimer, United Church of Christ pastor