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Innovative Planning: Your Church in 4-D. (TCP Leadership Series) | 
 enlarge | Author: Bud Wrenn
Creator: Rick Warren
Publisher: Chalice Press
List Price: $24.99
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Rating:  1 reviews
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0827216505
Dewey Decimal Number: 254
EAN: 9780827216501
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Product Description
Innovative Planning: Your Church in 4-D gives the reader insight into planning effectively for his/her church. Many leaders want to be innovative and make changes in the church but are unsure how. This book shows that organizational planning should be a systematic process with distinct phases and organizational members should be involved in the process. Anecdotal illustrations are provided.
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Real-World Planning January 9, 2009
As the pastor of a new church, one of my biggest concerns is "How can we create an organizational culture that constantly pushes us to be all we can be for God?" Bud Wrenn's book is an attempt to help churches answer that challenge.
Before I get too far, I probably should include a disclaimer. Bud Wrenn is a good friend of mine. That's one reason I put off reading and reviewing my advanced copy. I mean, what if it stinks?
Well, I shouldn't have worried. The book is fantastic. And any lingering concerns were eliminated in chapter 3: "Visional Planning." I'm a visionary leader. This chapter is the best treatment of visionary leadership and planning I have ever read. And the four-step approach to planning (Visional, Missional, Strategic and Tactical) is both an excellent approach and a great way to understand where different people can best fit into the planning process.
Bud's years of experience, both in the corporate world and church environments provides a wealth of illustrations and a workable strategy for leading a church to capture and fulfill its God-given vision. And while many non-fiction books have enough good ideas for about eighty pages (then pad and repeat information to make it long enough to merit a cover instead of a staple), this book is packed with great info and insight throughout its nearly 200 pages.
The book is not without its weaknesses. The author likes dictionary definitions a little much for my taste and his prose style indicates he's a speaker first, then a writer. Sometimes in his zest he goes a little too deep into planning specifics. It wouldn't be hard to imagine a church with a certain style leadership getting so caught up in the details of planning they never get around to ministry.
But compared to the wealth of solid, practical information available in its pages, the quibbles are inconsequential. As our church works to create an organization that can fulfill our vision, Bud Wrenn's book is about to become our church's textbook.
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