Aubrey Malphurs, Advanced Strategic Planning: A New Model for Church and Ministry Leaders, Third Edition. Baker, 2013.
Referenced in: Strategic Planning – Leader/Participatory
LifeandLeadership.com Summary
This is a complete process for strategic planning, following a fairly standard planning sequence, and providing guidance for each step. Malphurs also places much more emphasis on creating statements of mission, vision, and values. Helpful companion volumes by Malphurs that expand upon the concepts of mission, vision, and values include Developing a Dynamic Mission for Your Ministry, Developing a Vision for Ministry in the 21st Century, and Values Driven Leadership. Another volume by Malphurs, Ministry Nuts and Bolts, summarizes some of the high points of all four volumes on the subject of values, mission, vision, and strategy. Advanced Strategic Planning places these processes into the larger picture of congregational redevelopment. It is a more evangelical approach, conveying the language and assumptions of church growth. A similar volume by Alban Institute, Holy Conversations, addresses mainline Protestant settings. Each is broadly applicable and has its own strengths.
From the Publisher
First published in 1999, Advanced Strategic Planning explained why planning was so important to carrying out the church’s mission. Now in its second edition, this practical resource offers:
- A nine-step strategic thinking and acting model
- Useful ideas for developing a strategy
- Diagrams to help illustrate concepts
- A new chapter on spiritual formation
This updated edition places a stronger emphasis on disciplemaking and clarifies answers to nine fundamental ministry questions. The methods in this book are proven to work, having already helped many churches articulate their vision and implement their mission.
About the Author
Aubrey Malphurs (Th.M., Ph.D., Dallas Theological Seminary) is president of Vision Ministries International and chairman of the Field Education Department at Dallas Theological Seminary. He has served as a pastor and church planter and is the author of numerous books in the areas of leadership, vision, and church ministry, including Ministry Nuts and Bolts: What They Don’t Teach Pastors in Seminary; Doing Church; and Developing a Dynamic Mission for Your Ministry.
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