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  • Churches, Cultures, and Leadership: A Practical Theology of Congregations and Ethnicities, By Mark Lau Branson and Juan F. Martinez
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    Churches, Cultures, and Leadership

    A Practical Theology of Congregations and Ethnicities

    by Mark Branson and Juan F. Martinez

    We live in a culturally diverse society. As the church continues to heed Christ's call to reflect the multiethnic character of his people, pastors and lay leaders need to gain skills and competencies to serve in multicultural contexts, both inside and beyond their congregations. With this book, Mark Lau Branson and Juan F. Martínez equip leaders to create environments that make ...

  • Disabling Leadership: A Practical Theology for the Broken Body of Christ, By Andrew T. Draper and Jody Michele and Andrea Mae
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    Disabling Leadership

    A Practical Theology for the Broken Body of Christ

    Center For Disability and Ministry Books

    by Andrew Thomas Draper, Jody Michele Courtney, and Andrea Mae

    People with disabilities are often excluded from full participation in church communities. Accessibility is a key component of the biblical ministry of reconciliation—but it's not enough. To truly work toward reconciliation, churches must both consider the theological implications of disability and also become places where people with disabilities lead.

    Disabling ...

  • Transforming Leadership: Jesus' Way of Creating Vision, Shaping Values  Empowering Change, By Leighton Ford
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    Transforming Leadership

    Jesus' Way of Creating Vision, Shaping Values Empowering Change

    by Leighton Ford

    A book for leaders, by leaders, about the greatest leader of them all.

    In our rapidly changing and ever more complex world, we suffer a crisis of leadership. Leighton Ford sees the growing dearth of bold leaders--in the marketplace, religion and public life. In this powerful book, Ford calls Christians to be transformational leaders.

    Many leaders work within situations; transformational ...

  • Teams That Thrive: Five Disciplines of Collaborative Church Leadership, By Ryan T. Hartwig and Warren Bird
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    Teams That Thrive

    Five Disciplines of Collaborative Church Leadership

    by Ryan T. Hartwig and Warren Bird
    Foreword by Dave Ferguson

    Readers' Choice Award Winner

    Outreach Magazine's Resources of the Year

    It's increasingly clear that leadership should be shared—for the good of any organization and for the good of the leader. Many churches have begun to share key leadership duties, but don't know how to take their leadership team to the point where it thrives. ...

  • Excellence in Leadership: Reaching Goals with Prayer, Courage and Determination, By John White
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    Excellence in Leadership

    Reaching Goals with Prayer, Courage and Determination

    by John White

    • Short deadlines
    • Not enough staff
    • Tight budgets
    • Personal attacks
    • External opposition
    • Internal conflicts
    • A huge task

    Every leader faces these problems. But as Christians, should we solve them by using the secular strategies of best-selling management books? Or is there another way?John White says there is. Nehemiah provides the model ...

  • Organizational Leadership: Foundations and Practices for Christians, Edited by Jack Burns and John R. Shoup and Donald C. Simmons Jr.
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    Organizational Leadership

    Foundations and Practices for Christians

    Edited by Jack Burns, John R. Shoup, and Donald C. Simmons Jr.

    Kingdom leadership does not begin and end at the church door. Christians are called to conduct leadership in government, commerce, schools, neighborhoods, families, para-church ministries and a myriad other contexts. God has given us many gifts,and our responsibility is to be stewards of those gifts, and use them to do the King?s work. In that context, this comprehensive text explores key facets ...

  • Basic Christian Leadership: Biblical Models of Church, Gospel and Ministry, By John Stott
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    Basic Christian Leadership

    Biblical Models of Church, Gospel and Ministry

    by John Stott

    "God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong." (1 Corinthians 1:27)Those in Christian leadership might suspect that this verse invalidates the day-to-day reality of their ministries. They often feel that they must project strength and certainty in order to preach and minister credibly. But does this run counter ...

  • Attentive Church Leadership: Listening and Leading in a World We've Never Known, By Kevin G.Ford and Jim Singleton
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    Attentive Church Leadership

    Listening and Leading in a World We've Never Known

    by Kevin Graham Ford and Jim Singleton
    Foreword by Ed Stetzer

    The world has changed. The changes around us present daunting challenges to the church, and we minister in places we have never been in before. But there are no one-size-fits-all solutions because every church needs to attend to its specific situation and calling. We need to listen for not only what to do but also what not to do. In a world screaming in a thousand directions for ...

  • The Softer Side of Leadership: Essential Soft Skills That Transform Leaders and the People They Lead, By Eugene B. Habecker
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    The Softer Side of Leadership

    Essential Soft Skills That Transform Leaders and the People They Lead

    by Gene Habecker
    With Marylou Habecker

    Many who lead or who aspire to lead rightly champion the importance of hard skills. These are skills that are informed by quantitative measurement and analytical thinking, among others. Knowing the numbers, embracing leadership tasks, and implementing the right strategies are important but no longer enough to be an effective leader. Indeed, the best of the leadership literature consistently emphasizes ...

  • Relational Leadership: A Biblical Model for Influence and Service, By Walter C. Wright Jr.
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    Relational Leadership

    A Biblical Model for Influence and Service

    by Walter C. Wright
    Foreword by Richard J. Mouw and Eugene H Peterson

    Leadership. What does it mean? How do I do it? Who is a leader and who is not? Relational Leadership will stimulate your thinking about leadership and management, causing you to both ask questions and find answers. Ultimately, this will enable you to invest yourself in people for the sake of the kingdom. Drawing on leadership theory, his own experience and insights from Jude, Philemon and ...