Transitions: Leading Churches Through Change
Edited by David Mosser
Westminster John Knox, 2011, 248 pp., $20.00
There are few pastoral challenges more pervasive yet more perplexing than leading a church through change. Preaching is one of the pastor’s key tools in guiding a congregation through change, yet there have been few resources to aid in that specific task.
Thus, David Mosser’s new volume Transitions: Leading Churches Through Change is a welcome addition to the homiletical literature. In the volume, Mosser has compiled the work of 31 preachers—mostly mainline pastors and professors—to address a variety of issues relating to leading through change.
Among the contributors to this helpful volume are David Buttrick, Henry and Ella Mitchell, Sidney Greidanus, Tom Long, Frank Thomas, Ron Allen, Carol Noren, John McClure, and other insightful authors.
Along with the practical counsel to pastors, the preacher who reads this volume also will find some interesting seeds for future sermons. This will be a useful book for many pastors dealing with the inevitable challenges of change.