Contents
PART I: UNDERSTANDING UNCHARTED TERRITORY
1 Seminary Didn’t Prepare Me for This -- 11
2 Adventure or Die -- 24
3 A Leadership Model for Uncharted Territory -- 36
PART 2: THE ON-THE-MAP SKILL SET
4 Competence and Credibility -- 49
5 Preparing for the Unknown -- 61
6 Eating Strategy for Breakfast -- 72
PART 3: LEADING OFF THE MAP
7 Navigating the “Geography of Reality” -- 87
8 My Italian Grandfather Was Killing Me -- 99
9 Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There ... Then Do Something -- 108
10 The Mission Trumps! -- 123
11 Take a Good Look into the Coffin -- 135
PART 4: RELATIONSHIPS AND RESISTANCE
12 Gus and Hal Go to Church -- 153
13 Et Tu, Church? -- 170
PART 5: TRANSFORMATION
14 How a Nursing Mother Saved America -- 189
15 The End of Our Exploring -- 204
Epilogue: Taking the Hill with Grandma -- 219
Acknowledgments -- 225
Notes. -- 229

Although explorers Lewis and Clark were prepared to find a waterway to the Pacific Ocean, instead they found themselves facing the Rocky Mountains. You too may feel that you are leading in a context you were not expecting. You may even feel that your training holds you back more often than it carries you along. Tod Bolsinger brings decades of expertise in guiding churches and organizations through uncharted territory to help you reimagine what effective leadership looks like in our rapidly changing world. If you’re going to scale the mountains of ministry, you need to leave behind canoes and find new navigational tools. Reading this book will set you on the right course to lead with confidence and courage.