PAUL NIXON
EPICENTER GROUP
PAUL NIXON believes we need healthy progressive Christian faith communities now more than ever before - to offer people a third way between tired tradition on one hand and life outside organized spirituality on the other. Dr. Nixon has more than twenty years of experience on the front lines of local church ministry, including nine years at Gulf Breeze United Methodist Church in Florida during a remarkable season when the church doubled from 2000 to 4000 in membership, expanded to three locations and received 1300 adults by profession of faith in Christ.
In addition to a ministry of coaching church leaders, Paul is project manager for a new faith community in Washington DC, Sunday Nights @ Foundry, www.foundrypm.org. Paul also works as part of the Path One Team of The United Methodist Church as a researcher and consultant around best practices in new church development.
Paul Nixon’s books (click on title for more info)
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1.Finding Jesus on the Metro: and Other Surprises Doing Church in a New Day, Pilgrim 2009
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2.I Refuse to Lead a Dying Church Pilgrim 2007
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3.Healing Spiritual Amnesia: Remembering What it Means to be the Church, Abingdon 2004
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4.Fling Open the Doors: Giving the Church Away to the Community, Abingdon 2002
Growing progressive Christian faith communities.
Cultivating extraordinary leaders.
Helping 21st century people connect with God through Jesus.
paul nixon best-selling author, speaker, coach to faith communities and their leaders
home base washington dc
mission growing progressive churches, cultivating spiritual leaders to change the world.
values courage, cooperation, perseverance,
EPICENTER GROUP coaches leaders, churches and groups of churches across North America, assisting them in their discovery of God’s excellent future and in strategies for bringing that future to life. Paul Nixon’s 2007 book, I Refuse to Lead a Dying Church was Pilgrim Press’ best selling title that year. I Refuse has provoked a turning point in scores of mainline Christian congregations, and sent Paul all over the US teaching pastor’s conferences and consulting with church leaders. Paul’s new book, Finding Jesus on the Metro, being released in late spring 2009, serves as a sequel to I Refuse, focusing on how congregations can respond faithfully to changing communities and new populations, with very different cultural instincts than most churches.
