Creating a Healthier Church: Family Systems Theory, Leadership, and Congregational Life / Edition 1

by Ronald W. Richardson

Overview

Ronald W. Richardson helps us to understand how congregations function emotionally. Without being simplistic, he gives clear directions on how to improve the quality of life together in the church for the purpose of achieving mission goals.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900800629556
Publication date:	08/19/1996
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Ronald W. Richardson is former Clinical Director of the North Shore Counseling Center, pastoral counselor, author of many books on family systems theory and is currently a retired pastor living in West Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Editorial Reviews

"Every congregation that has struggled to maintain a balance between individuality and togetherness, closeness and distance, unity and difference, and every leader who has determined to stay out of the emotional muddles of congregational life will find help in this book." —Herbert Anderson, professor emeritus, Catholic Theological Union

"This is an important book for pastor and congregations. Richardson has framed the book in a way that lends itself to discussion, and through questions at the end of the chapters, guides those reading or discussing the material to in-depth examination." —Jim Wyrtzen, former president, Osher Institute

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