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Deep Work: How District Communities Can Work Together to Renew Their Witness and Mission

Albert Hung

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Middle judicatories within denominations were originally organized to catalyze and support the mission of the local church. As movements mature and institutionalize, however, the overseers of these regional bodies inevitably become more preoccupied with administrative matters and organizational preservation than with ensuring mission fidelity and fruitfulness.

Yet bishops and superintendents are more than mid-level managers; they are key spiritual leaders who help the church become her best self and flourish in mission. In an increasingly secular age in which the character, credibility, and relevance of the church are in doubt, how can regional overseers lead in a way that engenders healthy and substantive reform in the church, such that our witness is revitalized, and our mission is renewed? How ought we to change our thinking, habits, relationships, and systems toward this end?

This dissertation is an attempt to offer a framework for ecclesial overseers and their communities to engage in the difficult work of collective renewal. Given the complex nature of such an endeavor, inspiration for this framework has been drawn from a variety of sources, including: (1) the slow, patient work of discipleship embodied by the early church and monastic communities, (2) the mindsets and practices that have fueled some of the most innovative work being done by modern organizations, and (3) the Wesleyan practice of Christian Conferencing, reimagined for our current context.

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Albert Hung