Learning Hope

Twice a year for two years I have been making this trip to Guelph, Canada to work with sixteen churches and their pastors to facilitate congregational transformation. On the surfacethis looks like any other church leadership retreat. We talk about generating and sustaining creative tension, current reality of our churches and contexts, God’s preferred future, and discipleship. Family systems theory, mental models, and adaptive versus operational leadership are concepts we learn about, all in...