Tony Morgan is one of the great church practitioners of our day. He is not only able to see the vision of where the church needs to be, but he has the wisdom to know how to put together a comprehensive plan for getting there. With his experience and gifts, Morgan is a great resource for church leaders to tap into.
In his latest book release that came out this week, Stuck In A Funk: How To Get Your Church Moving Forward, Morgan provides a great background and understanding to the epidemic that is sweeping through churches today: that is that we are too often “stuck in a funk” and not being the Church God called us to be.
Morgan uses a combination of stories, bulleted lists, biblical examples, and thought-provoking questions to move the readers from recognizing if their church is “Stuck in a Funk” to evaluating what is the cause to building a strong leadership legacy. Morgan then addresses how the church needs to adopt the new marketing tools that are at our disposal today in order to stay relevant.
The book is organized into four sections humorously clothed in the concept of the leisure suit:
- Why Your Church is Stuck
- How To Get Unstuck
- Build A Legacy of Leadership
- Communicate Through Change
Even if you have read some of Morgan's books from the Leisure Suit series, I highly recommend you study the complete compilation in Stuck In A Funk. But don't stop there. This is a book your whole team needs to study together.
Random Quotes
- “We can grow so accustomed to what we are doing that we are no longer aware that the rest of the world wandered off into the future.” (Location 100)
- “When we keep trying to use the same systems – hoping and praying for different results – that's when we know we've fallen for the ‘leisure suit trap.'” (Location 105)
- “And we won't fully know the power and impact of the local church until people are empowered to be the people God wired them up to be.” (Location 126)
- “It is possible to do the work of God without doing the work God has called you to do.” (Location 687)
- “Good people using bad systems will never produce good results. Normal people using good systems can produce great results.” (Location 531-533)
Who should read this book
- Senior Leadership: I am a firm believer that senior pastors and senior leadership (paid and non-paid) will greatly benefit from reading this book. It will help you identify the questions you need to be asking. It will will force you to take a hard look at how your church functions to assess whether it is healthy or need to make changes.
- Entire Team: No matter how small or large your church staff is, working through this book as a team will open dialog and help focus everyone in the same direction.
- Team Leaders: Even if your entire staff or senior leadership is not interested in reading the book with you, you will benefit from reading in your own.
- Office Team: Whether you have one person working administratively in your office or dozens, please do not exclude them from this process. They are the ones who can often provide the most creative and effective recommendations for how to improve the systems and processes of the church.
- Small Group Leaders: This will help facilitate a small group culture that is focused on staying healthy rather than turning inward and stale.
Get Your Copy Today
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Other Titles By Tony Morgan:
- Take the Lid Off Your Church: 6 Steps to Building a Healthy Senior Leadership Team
- Simply Strategic Stuff:: Help for Leaders Drowning in the Details of Running a Church
- Killing Cockroaches: And Other Scattered Musings on Leadership
- Developing a Theology of Leadership
- The New Traditional Church
Question:
What do you do to get your church out of a funk?