Getting to amen
Subtitle: 8 strategies for managing conflict in the African American church
By: Lora-Ellen McKinney.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Judson Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Valley Forge, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
Subjects: African American churches.; Church controversies -- African American churches.; Conflict management -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Description: This important resource provides a set of practical tools, based on Christian principles, psychological theory, and research on African American religious culture, that will help churches move beyond disputes and disagreements to harmony and heartfelt AMENs!
Table of contents: title: Section I: How do we get to amen? : an overview; title: Section II: Managing conflict (a brief primer); title: What the tribe needs to know; title: What's worth the fight; title: Conflict and Christianity : take your burdens to the Lord and leave them there?; title: Conflicted people in the pews : voices worth hearing; title: Section III: The road to amen : seeing church conflict through an African American lens; title: Learning to agree without being disagreeable; title: Doing what the spirit says do : living African American Christian ethics; title: Section IV : Issues that create conflict in the African American church; title: Getting to amen!! : solving church conflicts with the 8 p's; title: Women in church leadership : taking the rightful place of men or taking their rightful place?; title: Case study one: conflict between the pastor and another church leader; title: Homosexuality : all God's children or inviting hell in a handbasket?; title: Church migration : inner city or suburbs?; title: Staying put or losing historical temples?; title: Case study two: learning from and resolving political conflicts in the nation's churches; title: Politics and preaching : carrying on a tradition or carrying someone's water?; title: Non-denominationalism : a new and positive future or a loss of our historical roots?; title: Section V: Turning problems of the Black church into 21st century promises; title: Why God don't like ugly : proposing a collaborative future; title: Reclaiming the tribe : taking off the shackles in Jesus' name.