by Ronny Russell

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Journey

Chapter 1
Holy Discontent

- You Have Come to the Right Place
- Where Disciples Are Being Made
- The Last One Called
- A Major Paradigm Shift
- Heavily Programmed
- A Generation Lost
- Holy Handyman
- Slow Burnout
- Not at Home in Midian
- Smoldering Tumbleweeds
- Why Would Anyone Want to Join This Church?
- An Unlikely Theophany—But Aren’t They All?

Chapter 2
Holy Discoveries

- Heaven, We Have a Problem
- Gone But Not Forgotten
- The Outside Prophet
- Divine Appointments
- Mentors
- The Power of the Printed Page
- The Power of the Group
- A New Reformation
- There Is Pow’r, Pow’r, Wonder-working Power
- Streams in the Desert
- Murmuring

Chapter 3
Stirring the Waters

- In Need of a Story
- Stagnancy and Stirring
- Notable Quotables
- Read, Read, Read
- Disturbing the Status Quo
- Friends in Low Places
- Bubble-up People
- Oh, the Place You’ll Go
- Messiness Rules
- Casting the Vision

Chapter 4
Counting the Cost

- See a Hill, Take a Hill
- A Decisive Destination
- 500 What?
- Where Will They Go?
- This Train Is Bound for Glory, This Train?
- Three Distinctives
- Normative for God’s People
- Defraying the Cost
- The Cost of Doing Nothing

Chapter 5
Mental and Spiritual Toughness

Chapter 6
The Prophet

- Making the Truth Loom Large
- The Outside Prophet
- Prophets Among Us
- The Poet Has a Tough Job Too
- Piercing Prose
- The Support Group as Prophet
- The Biblical Prophets

Chapter 7
Changing Values Before Changing Structure

- The Mission
- We Shall Not Be Moved
- Lo, the Resistance You Have With You Always
- Not a Gated Community
- Legitimizers
- Affirm the Pioneer Spirit
- The Church Constitution
- Ready for Radical Reform
- Dying to Self

Chapter 8
The Laws of Wingwalking

- Rules for Wingwalking
- Rules for Wingwalking and Transitioning a Church
- How This Works in a Church
- Applied to Sunday School
- Applied to Worship
- Applied to Small Groups
- The Early Church
- Wingwalking Begins on the Ground
- Don’t Tear Down that Fenc
- Let Go Anyway!

Chapter 9
Morphing

- Insert Change and Stand Back!
- Change as a Value
- The Church Building
- Change Must Begin with the Clergy
- "Chaordic"
- Centralized vs. Decentralized
- A Continuous Process
- We Are Drifters

Epilogue: What I’ve Been Thinking Lately