LEADER 03343nam 2200577 450 001 9910465333503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-56699-561-2 035 $a(CKB)2560000000148239 035 $a(EBL)1674095 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001182877 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12434856 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001182877 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11191801 035 $a(PQKB)10103161 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1674095 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1674095 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11024283 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682719 035 $a(OCoLC)881165388 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000148239 100 $a20150306d2014 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aInside the large congregation /$fSusan Beaumont 205 $aFirst Rowman & Littlefield paperback edition. 210 1$aLanham [Maryland] :$cRowman & Littlefield,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (385 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-51437-2 311 $a1-56699-419-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $tWhy size matters : the large church in context --$tHow size changes things --$tLiving large : exploring large church size categories --$tClergy leadership roles --$tStaff team design and function --$tGovernance and board function --$tAcculturation and engagement of the laity --$tForming and executing strategy. 330 $a"For five years, Alban Institute senior consultant Susan Beaumont has been giving voice to the organizational and leadership demands of large congregations. Through her work, she has identified five basic leadership systems that need to stay in alignment for the large church to function well for its size: clergy leadership roles, staff team design and function, governance and board function, acculturation and the role of laity, and forming and executing strategy. She has also learned that these five systems operate with some important but subtle distinctions in what Beaumont calls the professional church (400-800 in worship attendance), the strategic church (800-1,200), and the matrix church (1,200-2,000). Often, she has discovered, problems in a large congregation are related to the fact that one or more of the five systems is inappropriately structured for the size of the congregation. In other words, the church isn't acting its size. Beaumont is invested in helping large congregations 'rightsize' their leadership systems to better serve their ministry context. This book articulates why size matters and how it matters in the world of large congregations. 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[237]-254) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. Priest and Scribe --$tChapter 2. Jubilees' Kingdom of Priests --$tChapter 3. Priesthood and Purity Laws --$tChapter 4. Priesthood and Sectarianism --$tChapter 5. Priesthood and Allegory --$tChapter 6. "The Children of Abraham Your Friend" --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aAccording to the account in the Book of Exodus, God addresses the children of Israel as they stand before Mt. Sinai with the words, "You shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation" (19:6). The sentence, Martha Himmelfarb observes, is paradoxical, for priests are by definition a minority, yet the meaning in context is clear: the entire people is holy. The words also point to some significant tensions in the biblical understanding of the people of Israel. If the entire people is holy, why does it need priests? If membership in both people and priesthood is a matter not of merit but of birth, how can either the people or its priests hope to be holy? How can one reconcile the distance between the honor due the priest and the actual behavior of some who filled the role? What can the people do to make itself truly a kingdom of priests? Himmelfarb argues that these questions become central in Second Temple Judaism. She considers a range of texts from this period, including the Book of Watchers, the Book of Jubilees, legal documents from the Dead Sea Scrolls, the writings of Philo of Alexandria, and the Book of Revelation of the New Testament, and goes on to explore rabbinic Judaism's emphasis on descent as the primary criterion for inclusion among the chosen people of Israel-a position, she contends, that took on new force in reaction to early Christian disparagement of the idea that mere descent from Abraham was sufficient for salvation. 606 $aPriests, Jewish$xHistory 606 $aHoliness$xJudaism 606 $aJudaism$xHistory$yPost-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D 606 $aApocryphal books$xCriticism, interpretation, etc 610 $aAncient Studies. 610 $aHistory. 610 $aJewish Studies. 610 $aReligion. 610 $aReligious Studies. 615 0$aPriests, Jewish$xHistory. 615 0$aHoliness$xJudaism. 615 0$aJudaism$xHistory 615 0$aApocryphal books$xCriticism, interpretation, etc. 676 $a296.4/95 700 $aHimmelfarb$b Martha$f1952-$0772854 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787545903321 996 $aA kingdom of priests$93809437 997 $aUNINA