In this groundbreaking book, Earl Creps, the author of Off-Road Disciplines: Spiritual Adventures of Missional Leaders takes up the topic of how older ministry leaders can learn from younger peers who are in closer touch with today's culture, technology, and social climate. Throughout the book, Creps reveals the practical benefits of reverse mentoring and offers down-to-earth steps for implementing it at both the personal and the organizational level.

Reverse Mentoring offers a guide for leaders who want to experience personal formation by exercising the kind of humility that invites a younger person to become a tutor. The book invites older leaders to face uncomfortable truths--"I am not cool"--in order for them to cultivate spiritual growth and ministry effectiveness. It also includes insight into the kind of spirituality from which reverse mentoring draws its strength and which distinguishes it from just another value-added business tactic.

Earl Creps details specific benefits of reverse mentoring in areas such as evangelism, communication, and leadership, clearly showing how to develop healthy reverse mentoring relationships that will garner positive results.

Reverse Mentoring is a model for church leaders who understand the importance of learning from younger people to prevent functional obsolescence and to transform their leadership and mission.

THE AUTHOR

EARL CREPS has been a pastor, ministries consultant, and university professor. Along the way, Creps earned a Ph.D. in communication at Northwestern University and a doctor of ministry degree in leadership at AGTS. He is the author of Off-Road Disciplines from Jossey-Bass.

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About Leadership Network.

Introduction: It Takes a Child to Raise a Village.

Part One: Facing Reality.

Chapter 1 Identity: "I Am Not Cool".

Chapter 2 Culture: "I Don't Get It".

Chapter 3 Ministry: "I Am Not Relevant".

Part Two: Cultivating Spirituality.

Chapter 4 Vision: Seeing Beyond Ourselves.

Chapter 5 Wisdom: Knowing Beyond Our Information.

Chapter 6 Relationship: Befriending Beyond Our Peers.

Part Three: Experiencing Practicality.

Chapter 7 Evangelism: Learning from Outsiders.

Chapter 8 Communication: Learning from Listeners.

Chapter 9 Leadership: Learning from Followers.

Part Four: Developing Reciprocity.

Chapter 10 Protégés: Developing R-Mentoring Relationships.

Chapter 11 Processes: Embedding R-Mentoring in Organizations.

Chapter 12 Interview: Joel and Rachel Mentor Earl and Janet.

Epilogue I Was So Much Older Then; I'm Younger Than That Now.

Notes.

Acknowledgments.

About the Author.

Index.