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Church Unique Awarded by Leadership Journal

We are excited to see Church Unique listed in Leadership Journal's"Golden Canon." The article opening begins with a quote from Spurgeon: "A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one good book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books merely skimmed." Therefore Leadership Journal created a list "presenting the ten books of 2008 deemed most valuable." Here is the list: 

The Leader's Outer World

The Reason for God, by Tim Keller (Winner)

Culture Making, by Andy Crouch 

Axiom, by Bill Hybels

 Consuming Jesus, by Paul Louis Metzger

Church Unique, by Will Mancini 

The Leader's Inner World

Surprised by Hope, by N.T. Wright (Winner)

The Jesus Way, by Eugene Peterson

The Attentive Life, by Leighton Ford

Life with God, by Richard Foster

Memoirs of an Ordinary Pastor, by D.A. Carson 

Many thanks to Marshall Shelley and all the folks at Leadership Journal who continue to bring a strong kingdom resource to leaders. Their purpose is to serve church leaders by offering spiritual wisdom and practical tools for faithfully proclaiming and effectively living the gospel.

Leadership Learning from Bloggers-Free E-Book from Exponential


Leadership Learnings from Bloggers is a FREE eBook that features over 250 pages of leadership learnings from over 20 national bloggers. Will Mancini is a featured blog author along with Perry Noble, Seth Godin, and Craig Groeschel, to name a few.  Click here to download Leadership Learnings from Bloggers and to learn more about the Exponential Network.

Leadership Network and Catalyst Spotlight Church Unique


Catalyst I3 features Will Mancini Workshops

Will Mancini will be a featured author and speaker at Leadership Network's I3 Conference.  Join Will to discuss Church Unique principles beginning with:

How Vision Creates a Culture of Risk: Normalizing Absurdity

Einstein said, “if at first the idea is not absurd, there is no hope for it.”  Leaders often settle for small dreams and “all-too-possible” thinking.  Consequently, churches today are filled with the expected- nothing radical, nothing extravagant, nothing God-sized.   Does your church think absurd ideas?  Should they? At Innovation3, Will Mancini, author of Church Unique and Building Leaders, will explore how leaders can “normalize absurdity” by cultivating a risk-worthy vision and creating risk-taking followers.   Has not God promised that he will do far beyond what we can ask or think? Register today for I nnovation3 for this and many other great sessions for you and your ministry team!

You can also join Will at one of eight author sponsored dinners for more conversation on vision. Register at Innovation3.

Church Central Interview 

Church Central Leadership Community posted an audio interview with Will on January 19, 2009 on their web site.  Will discusses one of the key concepts of discovering your Church Unique, the Kingdom Concept.  Listen to the interview at Church Central.

Church Unique added as Ministry Resource

Preaching Magazine online has added the following excerpt from Church Unique to its Ministry Resources.

 


YOUR RATING

Unwrapping the Bad Rap

By Will Mancini

An idol is anything we add to Jesus in order to make life work. The irony is that in the call to preach the gospel many ministers fail to apply the gospel personally in ways that free their heart from a performance trap. This performance, of course, is measured most easily by church attendance; so the temptation to compare is always as close as our heartbeat. For some, the competition nurtured through sports fanaticism or market indicators magnifies the intensity of having to grow. When it’s time to attend a pastor’s gathering, deep emotions are connected to how the church is doing. If it’s growing, we can’t wait to find subtle ways to tell our ministry colleagues. If it’s not, we hope no one asks (or we just don’t attend the group). One of my closest friends in ministry confessed to me that the worst year of his life was the first year his church did not grow. Addicted to a track record of 15 percent growth over 10 years, he saw the first year of attendance plateau, hitting him like the black plague.

Show Me the Bigger Box! 

Read the entire resource article at Preaching Online

Amazon Book Review

I have read my fair share of books on vision and direction and I have to say this one stands out from them all. It's a book that doesn't just talk about the importance of vision and direction, but actually gives very practical steps on how to go helping you and your leadership team to discover and communicate it. As a pastor, I used it recently with my leadership team and it was awesome. Excellent book, highly recommend it. - D. Acker

Will discusses church branding on The Show with Leadership Network


Will Mancini - The Show from Todd Rhoades on Vimeo.