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 all-new CCN broadcast, 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.

Then, you’ll investigate two of those disciplines:

• Reverse mentoring (a personal discipline)
• Performance assessment (an organizational discipline)

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

Dr. Earl Creps is a veteran pastor and teacher who directs the Doctor of Ministry program at Assemblies of God Theological Seminary. He has been sectional presbyter and a consultant on adult ministries for the Assemblies of God, and his special interests are communication and leadership training. He is researching a book on emergent culture, post modernity, and the Pentecostal church. His latest book, Off-Road Disciplines: Spiritual Adventures of Missional Leaders, will be available in October 2006.