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About Leadership Network. <p>Introduction: It Takes a Child to Raise a Village.</p> <p><b>Part One: Facing Reality.</b></p> <p>Chapter 1 Identity: “I Am Not Cool”.</p> <p>Chapter 2 Culture: “I Don’t Get It”.</p> <p>Chapter 3 Ministry: “I Am Not Relevant”.</p> <p><b>Part Two: Cultivating Spirituality.</b></p> <p>Chapter 4 Vision: Seeing Beyond Ourselves.</p> <p>Chapter 5 Wisdom: Knowing Beyond Our Information.</p> <p>Chapter 6 Relationship: Befriending Beyond Our Peers.</p> <p><b>Part Three: Experiencing Practicality.</b></p> <p>Chapter 7 Evangelism: Learning from Outsiders.</p> <p>Chapter 8 Communication: Learning from Listeners.</p> <p>Chapter 9 Leadership: Learning from Followers.</p> <p><b>Part Four: Developing Reciprocity.</b></p> <p>Chapter 10 Protégés: Developing R-Mentoring Relationships.</p> <p>Chapter 11 Processes: Embedding R-Mentoring in Organizations.</p> <p>Chapter 12 Interview: Joel and Rachel Mentor Earl and Janet.</p> <p>Epilogue I Was So Much Older Then; I’m Younger Than That Now.</p> <p>Notes.</p> <p>Acknowledgments.</p> <p>About the Author.</p> <p>Index.</p>

"Full of timely examples that can help keep ministry fresh and relevant." – <i>The Living Church</i> (January 2009) <p>"I enjoyed reading Earl Creps’ <i>Off Road Disciplines</i>, but I was enthralled by <i>Reverse Mentoring</i>….Through these extremely personal and detailed stories Creps gives the reader a window into the emerging world with all of its new language, technology, music, and quirkiness." –Easum-Bandy</p>

<p><b>THE AUTHOR</b></p><p><b>EARL CREPS</b> 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 <i>Off-Road Disciplines</i> from Jossey-Bass.</p><p><b>ABOUT LEADERSHIP NETWORK</b> The mission of Leadership Network identifies and connects innovative church leaders, providing them with resources in the form of new ideas, people, and tools. Contact leadership Network at www.leadnet.org.</p>

<p>In this groundbreaking book, Earl Creps, the author of <i>Off-Road Disciplines: Spiritual Adventures of Missional Leaders</i> 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. </p><p><i>Reverse Mentoring</i> 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. </p><p>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. </p><p><i>Reverse Mentoring</i> 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.</p>

"Earl Creps is a superb communicator with the passion, courage, and vulnerability to hang out with younger people who mentor him enthusiastically. This book is a refreshing, innovative perspective that all other mentoring books miss." —Gary R. Collins, PhD, School of Psychology and Counseling, Regent University <p>"This book will help satisfy a deep hunger for wisdom and guidance."<br /> —John Ortberg, Pastor, Menlo Park Presbyterian Church and Author</p> <p>"The world has ended about four times. It happens every time there is an information revolution. New technologies and processes for handling information make the old world obsolete, quickly. When this happens an unusual dynamic asserts itself. Younglings mentor the elders into the way of the new world. Earl Creps calls our attention to this phenomenon in our own day. The richness of life sharing that is established in reverse mentoring is a largely unexplored, but promising green edge to the Christian movement. Let Earl show you how to get in on this development."<br /> —Reggie McNeal, author <i>The Present Future</i></p> <p>"Unfortunately for Christ's church, those of us who've been around for awhile in positions of leadership find it difficult to listen to those who haven't, but represent the next generation of the church. What could they ever teach us? No question-this prevalent attitude is much to our disadvantage as we lose touch with the future of Christ's church. So how can we learn to be quiet for once and listen? And why should we founts of wisdom even consider it? Earl Creps provides us with a compelling answer in reverse mentoring. This is a must read for all generations who love Christ's church."<br /> —Aubrey Malphurs, Lead Navigator-The Malphurs Group and Senior Professor-Dallas Seminary</p> <p>"And I thought I was cool, that I had put the "hip" back in discipleship. But after experiencing Reverse Mentoring, I have discovered it was an "artificial hip." It reminded me of how much younger leaders have helped me, it motivated me to get down to Starbucks or wherever I can spend some time with them."<br /> —Bill Hull, Author of <i>Jesus Christ Disciple Maker</i>, <i>The Disciple Making Pastor</i>, <i>The Disciple Making Church</i></p> <p>"Yikes. We've been nattering on about apprenticeship and formation forever, but we've often studiously ignored some of our best teachers. Brilliantly incisive, and yet Monday-morning practical, this warm, vital book might just nudge the church into a long-overdue revolution."<br /> —Jeff Lucas, author, speaker, broadcaster</p>

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