The Innovation Crisis: Creating Disruptive Influence in the Ministry You Lead, by Ted Esler. Moody Publishers, August 2021. 288 pages.
If you aren’t innovating, stagnation isn’t far away, says Missio Nexus leader Ted Esler. Ministry leaders carry the burden of keeping their organizations lean, focused, and relevant. Using missions disruptor William Carey as an example, Esler shows how you, too, can innovate and change the ministry landscape.
I haven’t read this one yet; it comes out on August 3. I’m wondering how much it might apply to those of us who are not senior leaders or executives. It looks like the book has a long list of endorsements, though, and perusing a substantial excerpt on the publisher’s website makes me want to read the rest of it.
Learn more or download an excerpt from the Moody website. You can get the book from Amazon or elsewhere. The Kindle edition is US$10.99 and the paperback is priced at US$16.99.
Note that innovation is also the topic for this year’s Missio Nexus Mission Leaders Conference in Dallas, TX September 21-23. Registration (limited due to COVID) is full, but you can participate virtually for US$149 (US$99 for Missio Nexus members).
I promise you I like full rooms. A little too much to be honest. Ministry leaders carry the burden of keeping their organizations lean, focused, and relevant.