Bøger af Todd Wilson

If I had known the Enneagram earlier in my ministry, I would have been a much better pastor. When this thought came to Todd Wilson, he had already served as a pastor in several churches for the better part of fifteen years and was successfully leading a large, historic, and diverse congregation. He'd started out in ministry with a strong education in everything from biblical exegesis and homiletics to organizational development and Christian education. However, at its root, pastoral ministry is about shepherding, serving, leading, and loving people, and Todd realized that what he lacked was wisdom about how people work. He says, ''When it came to empathetically shepherding people and sensitively engaging their manifold personalities and diverse ways of seeing the world, I was an amateur.'' Whether you are on a church staff or leading a small group, you will find that the insights from the Enneagram that have helped many grow in self-awareness can be applied to life in our faith communities. The Enneagram can help us to become better teachers. It can influence how we develop worship and Christian education. And it can guide us in building and leading teams. It's time to take the Enneagram to church-and to allow it to shape our life together.

ARE YOU LEAVING THE LEGACY OF A HERO MAKER?Hero makers have a pattern of investing in others to bring forth their full potential. This releases them to invest in even more leaders. Essentially, they are disciple makers who make other disciple makers. Their scorecards are measured not by what they do or accumulate but by how they invest in others--and release their potential.In this book, Dave Ferguson and Todd Wilson look at the essential characteristics of a hero maker and unpack at a deeper level the five hero-making practices identified in the book Hero Maker (by Dave Ferguson and Warren Bird): Multiplication ThinkingPermission GivingDisciple MultiplyingGift ActivatingKingdom BuildingThis book focuses on the life and memory of Bob Buford, who was a true hero maker. Bob leaves a hero-making legacy of thousands of hero makers.The Legacy of a Hero Maker is for pastors, leaders, and other disciple makers. After reading it, you will walk away with clarity on how you can help others become hero makers for the Kingdom!Dave Ferguson is Lead Pastor of Community Christian Church and co-founder of Exponential. He also provides visionary leadership for NewThing.Todd Wilson is President and CEO of Exponential (exponential.org), a community of activists devoted to church multiplication.

IS YOUR CHURCH MOBILIZING BELIEVERS INTO THEFULLNESS OF GOD'S CALL?The Mobilization Flywheel contains a powerful new framework which every Christian and church needs to implement in their lives and ministries. Larry Walkemeyer and Todd Wilson reveal the kind of church that will empower believers to become everyday missionaries where they live, work, and play.The authors describe how every believer can live a fully mobilized life as they serve in the sweet spot of their calling. They assert that most believers can start gatherings, and many of these gatherings can become new churches.Today churches want to make a greater kingdom impact. Believers are longing to live out their kingdom calling. Our culture is waiting for new expressions of the church. This resource offers a model for moving forward, a model which can create ever-increasing momentum for the multiplication of the church. It's called the mobilization flywheel.Identify the mobilization starting point, so you can better...Mobilize believers.Mobilize groups.Mobilize church.Engage this resource on a personal level through the authors' discussion questions. They help you process how you can mobilize those around you to increase your impact. Gain clarity on common friction points (called flywheel "drags") and ways to increase mobilization (called flywheel "aids"). Plus, learn how to articulate your "minimum ecclesiology" so that you can set believers, groups, and churches into mobilization overdrive.The wheel has started turning. Are you ready?LARRY WALKEMEYER is Lead Pastor of Light & Life Church in Long Beach, California, which is a multi-ethnic church-planting church. He also serves as Director of Equipping and Spiritual Engagement for Exponential.TODD WILSON is Co-founder and CEO of Exponential. Todd is engaged in leading-edge initiatives to help catalyze movements of healthy, multiplying churches and has written multiple books with that aim.

"In SPARK, Todd Wilson gives the church a practical and powerful vision of what the body of Christ can resemble when it pursues exponential growth through multiplying believers and churches. I'm thankful for Todd and this helpful book."-Ed Stetzer, Executive Director of the Billy Graham Center"The book is utterly brilliant. I love it. This little eBook is more dangerous to our prevailing mindsets than its size and accessibility suggest."-Alan Hirsch, Award-winning Writer on Missional MovementsFounder of Forge Mission Training Network and Future Travelers"Reading Spark filled my eyes with tears. Where was this book when I restarted my church? What a difference it might have made. Folks this is the first book that will go on my classics list."-Bill Easum, Ministry Veteran, 21st Century Strategies"I found SPARK startling, eye opening, like someone had awakened me with a splash of cold water in the face. I predict it will create a lot of discussion and provide a pathway for those who want to change from a growth-addition motif to a growth-multiplication approach."-Bill Hull, Author of Jesus Christ Disciple Maker, The Disciple Making Pastor, The Disciple Making Church"Danger Alert. Todd Wilson's Spark will challenge your definition of church growth and church success. It's a game-changing, paradigm-shifting, disruptive book that will rock you to the core about how to think and do church."-Jim Tomberlin, Founder, MultiSite Solutions

Pittsburgh's Bridges takes a comprehensive look at the design, construction, and, sometimes, demolition of the bridges that shaped Pittsburgh, ranging from the covered bridges of yesterday to those that define the skyline today.Pittsburgh is the "City of Bridges," and what remarkable bridges they are! The area's challenging topography of deep ravines and mighty rivers - the Monongahela, Allegheny, and Ohio - set the stage for engineers, architects, and contractors to conquer the terrain with a variety of distinctive spans. Many were designed to be beautiful as well as functional. While other cities may have one signature bridge, Pittsburgh has such a wide variety that no single bridge can represent it.

Paul's letter to the Galatians provides key insights into salvation and the nature of grace. Drawing on years of pastoral ministry, Wilson leads readers through the book's major themes with exegetical clarity and theological care. A Preaching the Word commentary.

The Center for Pastor Theologians (CPT) seeks to overcome the bifurcation that has developed between the roles of pastor and theologian. Based on the first CPT conference in 2015, this volume brings together the reflections of church leaders and academic theologians to consider how these roles might be reconnected once again.

This 12-week study leads readers through the book of Daniel, highlighting God's reign over all the earth as the sovereign Lord of history. Part of the Knowing the Bible series.

More meets Christians where they're at, acknowledging the roots of their discontent and demonstrating how to move from inspiration and desire into action. Church strategist and ministry activator Todd Wilson shows how all believers can live more abundant lives around the uniqueness of how they were made and what they are called to do.Introducing a memorable vocabulary and an easy-to-use practical framework, More equips readers to embark on a journey of discovering their unique personal calling. It enables readers to answer three of the most important and profound questions we all naturally ask. (1) ';Who am I created to be?' (2) ';What am I created to do?' (3) ';Where am I to be best positioned to do it?'The integrated answers to these key questionsthe BE-DO-GO of a person's liferepresent the core dimensions of personal calling. Inspiring and challenging, More gives readers permission and encouragement to engage in the journey God has solely for them.

Throughout the history of English literature, church ministers have figured prominently in novels, plays, morality tales, and even poetry. Pastors in the Classics is a unique, unprecedented collection of relevant literary masterpieces in which the pastor's experience is a major part of the story. Part 1 is a reader's guide to twelve important classics written over four centuries and covering seven different nationalities. Each chapter not only describes and interprets the work in question, it also highlights a specific feature of pastoral ministry explored in the work. Part 2 is a handbook that defines the canon of literary masterpieces that deal with the pastor's experience, offering reading suggestions for both ministers and lovers of literature.From the familiar (The Canterbury Tales; Cry, the Beloved Country; and The Scarlet Letter) to the lesser-known (Silence, Witch Wood) to the surprising (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man), this collection uncovers the good, the bad, and the ugly ways in which pastors have been presented to the reading public for the past half millennium.