2020s Foresight: Three Vital Practices for Thriving in a Decade of Accelerating Change
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In 2020s Foresight, authors Tom Sine and Dwight Friesen seek to "wake up" Christian leaders and those whom they serve to the realities that leaders in other fields must deal with all the time. We are no longer simply living in changing times. We live in the reality that we are racing into a new world of accelerating change. The authors want to enable leaders in churches and Christian organizations to learn how to lead in this time of acceleration. They focus on three vital practices: foresight (analyzing the accelerating changes and anticipating new opportunities and strategies for addressing change); reflection (discerning biblical purposes for times like these); and creating innovative ways to engage new challenges so as to advance God's purposes in our lives, congregations, and organizations in the 2020s.
The book is intended to equip Christian leaders to anticipate some of the new challenges in the 2020s; discover God's shalom purposes for our lives, the church, and God's world; and create innovative new possibilities for our lives, communities, and congregations that both engage new opportunities and advance God's purposes.
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About the Author
Tom earned his Ph.D. at the University of Washington. He has worked as an urban social worker, headed up a community empowerment project in Haiti for World Concern, taught at the University of Washington, and at Fuller Theological Seminary in Seattle. Tom and Christine are enjoying collaborating with The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology in preparing a new generation of changemakers to serve God in times like these. He also serves as a volunteer in a community empowerment initiative called Lake City Future First.
Tom's most recent book, to be released in April 2016, is Live Like You Give a Damn: Join the Changemaking Celebration! In this book he celebrates what God is doing through a new generation of changemakers to make a lasting difference in the lives of our neighbors and invites us all to join them.
His other publications include The New Conspirators: Creating the Future One Mustard Seed At A Time, Mustard seed vs McWorld: Reinventing Life and Faith for the Future (Baker 1999). Cease Fire: Searching for Sanity in America's Culture Wars (Eerdmans 1995) and Live It Up! How To Create A Life You Can Love. (Herald Press 1993) Together he and Christine co-authored Living On Purpose: Finding God's Best for Your Life (Baker 2002).
Tom and Christine live in an intergenerational household in Seattle. They enjoy sharing a meal and a liturgy every week, the community gardens together once a month and raise 30% of their produce on an urban lot. Tom's favorite thing is cooking food from all over the world from people all over the world. He reports that most have survived.
Dwight J. Friesen is a practical theologian and professor at The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology, where he trains future church leaders and offers transformational, immersive New Parish continuing education experiences for professionals. He also serves with Parish Collective, an international Christian organization that helps leaders and their groups recover the parish (neighborhood) as the natural platform by which the local church participates in whole-life discipleship in the Jesus Way. He is the author of four other books.
