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Discovering the Other - Asset-Based Approaches for Building Community Together (Paperback, New)
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Discovering the Other - Asset-Based Approaches for Building Community Together (Paperback, New)
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What is God's mission? Simply put, says theologian and field
educator Cameron Harder, God's mission is to form communities that
reflect and embody the life of the Trinity. Discovering the Other
is an introduction to two tools that community builders have found
helpful: appreciative inquiry and asset mapping. These tools help
congregations see that all of life is saturated by the sacred and
give them energy to begin living as if it were so. Instead of
asking, 'What's wrong?' appreciative inquiry asks, 'What's right?'
Asset mapping asks, 'What resources do you have personally that we
could bring to our future together?' Out of these questions can
arise a sense that every congregation is rich in history, people,
and resources. Ideas emerge as people, inspired by the Spirit,
listen and talk to each other. The leader's task is to facilitate,
coalesce, and connect ideas, to catalyze and stimulate the
development of vision. The creative connections lead to programs
and projects that will enrich your congregation's mission. But most
importantly, in the process they will engage you with others, with
their stories, their hopes, their gifts - to build community. This
book looks for God, not only through the lens of such tools, but in
the tools themselves. It is an effort to understand how processes
like appreciative inquiry and asset mapping reflect the character
and community-building style of the God whom Christians worship as
Divine community.
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