Remember the Future: Praying for the Church and Change calls leaders and teams to courageous new conversations with readings that cultivate hope, renew vision, and keep us attentive to the mission of Christ. This timely work reveals more clearly the "why" of congregational ministry and the inter4nal resistances and external challenges to the mission of the church.

ROBERT SCHNASE is Bishop of the Missouri Conference of The United Methodist Church. Previously, he served as pastor of First United Methodist Church, McAllen, Texas. Schnase is the author of Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations, a best-selling book on congregational ministry that has ignited a common interest among churches and their leaders around its themes of radical hospitality, passionate worship, intentional faith development, risk-taking mission and service, and extravagant generosity. Five Practices has reached a global community with translations in Korean, Spanish, Russian, Indonesian, and German. He is also the author of Cultivating Fruitfulness, The Balancing Act, Five Practices of Fruitful Living, Ambition in Ministry, and Testing and Reclaiming Your Call to Ministry.

While Bishop Schnase honors the past, he writes for the future. God keeps doing new things, and our Wesleyan ancestors knew well that new occasions require new responses. Remembering the Future envisions a future worthy of our past.
-Lovett H. Weems, Jr.,
Wesley Theological Seminary

Discerning God's dream for us requires remembering who we are and where we come from. we need help staying connected with God's purpose while working. Here is help.
-Gil Rendle,
Texas Methodist Foundation Senior Consultant

Bishop Schnase helps us to embrace change with faith, vision, hope, and grace. I intend to make wide use of this book in my ministry with congregation leaders.
-Gregory V. Palmer
Resident Bishop, Illinois Episcopal Area The United Methodist Church

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