Dwight J. Zscheile is vice president of innovation and professor of congregational mission and leadership at Luther Seminary. His books include Leading Faithful Innovation (with Michael Binder and Tessa Pinkstaff), Participating in God's Mission (with Craig Van Gelder), The Agile Church, People of the Way, Cultivating Sent Communities, and The Missional Church in Perspective (with Craig Van Gelder). He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

 

"Zscheile understands that innovation must be a way of life for churches in the next decades. This is one of the most important books I have read in a long time."—Lovett Weems, Professor of Church Leadership, Wesley Theological Seminary

"In an age when people are making choices about their faith, spirituality, and lives in unprecedented ways, our churches have the opportunity to be nimble, graceful, and creative. The Agile Church is an ideal guide for this journey."—Doug Pagitt, Pastor of Solomon’s Porch and author of Church in the Inventive Age

"This hopeful book helps Christian leaders to move away from seeing Church as an end to be preserved and move toward reconceiving the Church as a result of our faithfulness to the mission of God."—Ian T. Douglas, Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut

"Dwight’s work on innovation is a rare gift for pastors and church leaders wanting something rooted deeply in scripture and Christian imagination, not just one more trend."—Alan Roxburgh, author, consultant and founder of The Missional Network