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Reverse Mentoring Overview

Earl Creps is known for his work in connecting the younger generation of postmoderns with their Boomer predecessors. The author of Off-Road Disciplines, Creps, in this new book, takes up the topic of how older church leaders can learn from younger leaders who are more conversant with culture, technology, and social context. In addition to making the benefits of what he calls “reverse mentoring” apparent, he also makes it accessible by offering practical steps to implement this discipline at both personal and organizational levels, particularly in communication, evangelism, and leadership.

Creps’ new book is a topic of interest both inside and outside the church as older leaders realize that they’re not “getting it” when it comes to technologies (iPod, IM, blogging) or cultural issues such as the fact that younger people see the world in an entirely different way. Creps has been personally involved in reverse mentoring for several years and has spoken and written on the subject extensively.

He has pastored three churches (one Boomer, one Builder, on X’er) and is currently a church planter in Berkeley, California. He has also served as a consultant and and a seminary professor and administrator, holding a PhD in Communication Studies and a D.Min. from the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary.

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Off-Road Discplines Overview

If you want to reach the culture around you, you’re going to have follow Jesus “off-road”!

That’s the call issued by pastor, consultant, and educator Earl Creps.

To reach today’s culture, he says, we need missional leaders: men and women whose passion and vision for the world makes them people others want to emulate.

Prayer and Bible reading – what Earl calls “on-road practices”—are vital, of course. But it’s in the “off-road” disciplines that Creps says a missional heart is formed:

” … missional leadership derives not from methodologies or strategies, but from the work of the Holy Spirit to rearrange one’s interior life,” says Creps.

The unexpected “off-road” spiritual encounters, complete with the off-roader’s bumps and bruises, make room for Jesus to take the central position. Only then will the Holy Spirit reshape you as a leader worth following.

In this book, you’ll learn about “paradigm crashes” – disconnects between the American church and the culture it is commanded to reach. You’ll explore the three paradigm crashes that impelled Earl on his own rocky but exhilarating path to discovering twelve off-road disciplines, six personal (e.g., reverse mentoring), and six organizational (e.g., passing the baton).

Learn how disciplines like these can open you up to the unconventional, powerful ways God wants to shape you to lead others in mission.

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