• Title: Church Unique: How Missional Leaders Cast Vision, Capture Culture, and Create Movement
• Author: Will Mancini
• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass (March 21, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0787996831
• ISBN-13: 978-0787996833

Will Mancini’s book doesn’t just make a case for vision, but he does some unique work on how vision can be developed and how it serves to fuel a missional movement.

Amazon Description:

Written by church consultant Will Mancini, an expert on a new kind of visioning process to help churches develop a stunningly unique model of ministry that leads to redemptive movement. He guides churches away from an internal focus to emphasize participation in their community and surrounding culture. In this important book, Mancini offers an approach for rethinking what it means to lead with clarity as a visionary. Mancini explains that each church has a culture that reflects its particular values, thoughts, attitudes, and actions and shows how church leaders can unlock their church’s individual DNA and unleash their congregation’s one-of-a-kind potential.

“The book, complete with an appendix as well as logos and icons illustrating various churches’ visionary thinking, is strengthened by numerous flow charts, diagrams, graphics, and pithy quotes. It has the potential to unseat Rick Warren’s The Purpose-Driven Church in popularity. Yet academic libraries may want to pass on this title for its admitted lack of supporting empirical evidence.”

- C. Brian Smith, Arlington Heights Memorial Lib., IL (Library Journal, May 1, 2008)