Church Leadership

This little book will undoubtedly serve as a go-to handbook for many pastors, local elders, and Ephesians 4:11 ministers to learn to structure any meeting for the operations and demonstrations of the Holy Spirit. Instructions include: How to be honorable vessels who excel in spiritual gifts. How to keep the move and flow of the Spirit clean, crisp, fresh, and orderly. Staying free from excesses, abuses, and extremes. Learning to give place to the ministry of interpretation. Why the ministry of tongues and interpretation are to be more frequently manifested than any other gifts. Increasing ...

With decades of leadership experience in business, nonprofits, and Christian higher education, Uli Chi helps listeners build this foundational virtue. Looking to Scripture as well as art and literature, Chi illuminates the nature of wisdom as fundamentally relational and other-centered. In the context of leadership, biblical wisdom shows us the importance of wielding power with humility. Chi also provides a framework for the formation of character and vision in the lifelong journey of gaining wisdom.

Is your church a rowboat church or a sailboat church? Rowboat churches depend largely on human effort. When church budgets shrink and membership declines, rowboat churches frantically row harder against a current. Sailboat churches, on the other hand, take up the oars, hoist sails, and rely on the Holy Spirit to guide them. Arguing that churches should be "sailboats," Joan S. Gray encourages listeners to shift concern from the many daily, practical concerns of their local church to fresh ideas that can be found using the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

Here I am, send me is an empowerment for the God man for the divine work relevant to our time and generation. Every generation both past and present where molded and changed by human instruments in the hands of Almighty God. Even today, God is still searching and looking for His kind of men to do His kind of job. But the question is, what are His requirements and are there some specific examples to challenge and spur us for action and fruitful living as agents of transformation? Found out in the pages of ' TRANSFORMED INSTRUMENTS IN GOD'S HAND'.

The word succession means the inheriting of a title, office or power. Jesus Christ is the Eternal head of the Church and his headship shall undergo no succession. However, here on earth where he places men in leadership there must be times and seasons of succession. As time passes by man is brought to the place where he has to deal with issues of succession whether willingly or unwillingly. The passing of time demands change in leadership and the need for succession. Understanding what God's word reveals about succession will enable the Church make peaceful and smooth transitions and help ...

The case studies in Lead on Mission show how business owners, leaders, and boards take steps to advance a higher purpose beyond their tenure. In doing so, they increase a company's likelihood of sustaining a high-performing culture with an eternal ROI. While there is no single way to do this, the book offers practical approaches, insights, and case studies from Faith Forward leaders, investors, business owners, and industry experts.

Filled with real-life stories from the authors’ own experiences, Teach a Man to Fish provides churches and missions organizations with a blueprint for helping people help themselves in order to create lasting change and long-term sustainability and independence.

Einstein is quoted as having said, “If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes thinking about solutions.” The point he makes is important: preparation has great value to problem solving. Einstein knew that problems are full of clues to their own successful solution. Sometimes we can not see those clues, because the problem is too large, staring us in our face, and enveloping our every-thought. That's when we need the set of 'fresh eyes' from others. In this book I've taken hundreds of quotes from my notes over the past four ...

Longtime Christian journalist, researcher, and ministry leader Rick Lawrence believes that the driving force propelling the church into irrelevance is its propensity reduce Jesus. Deeply researched and comprehensively sourced, Editing Jesus, explores the 8 ways the Jesus of the contemporary church has been edited to fit the spirit of the age. Lawrence writes on:

Gordon Smith is passionate about the need for capable, mature leaders to navigate and respond to a changing society. In this book, he draws on his extensive experience as a university president, pastor, and international speaker to open a multidisciplinary conversation about the competencies and capacities essential for today's leaders.

Eight great chapters of topics related to Bible prophecy reveal how close we are to the end times! Chapter One - China in Bible Prophecy. Chapter Two - The Judgement Seat of Christ. Chapter Three - The Nine Future Wars of Bible Prophecy. Chapter Four - The Coming Seven-Year Tribulation. Chapter Five - The Miracle of Israel. Chapter Six - The Coming One-World Religion. Chapter Seven - The Exponential Prophecy Curve. Chapter Eight - The Coming Anti-Christ.

While today’s business world is dominated by technology and data analysis, award-winning financial journalist and anthropology PhD Gillian Tett advocates thinking like an anthropologist to better understand consumer behavior, markets, and organizations to address some of society’s most urgent challenges.

The realities of day-to-day staff management bears little resemblance to pastors preconceptions of how a church should function. Bring New Testament love and wisdom to the everyday task of managing a church today.LEARN TO: Radically increase the number of volunteers in your church. Make disciples leading to “succession management.” Avoid hiring missteps that ruin friendships. Breed healthy communications over staff roles and expectations. Overcome conflict before it gets out of hand. Generate a toolkit of inexpensive benefits for both volunteer and paid staff. Fire person without ...

In The End of Power, award-winning columnist and former Foreign Policy editor Moisés Naím illuminates the struggle between once-dominant megaplayers and the new micropowers challenging them in every field of human endeavor. Drawing on provocative, original research and a lifetime of experience in global affairs, Naím explains how the end of power is reconfiguring our world.

C T.’S LIFE stands as some rugged Gibraltar — a sign to all succeeding generations that it is worthwhile to lose all this world can offer and stake everything on the world to come. His life will be an eternal rebuke to easy-going Christianity. He has demonstrated what it means to follow Christ without counting the cost and without looking back. His simple life alone has affected missionary history, and through it C. T. forwarded evangelization to an extent that we cannot properly gauge.

Ministry in modern society presents a perpetual assault on the pastor’s soul. Culture has changed, and the challenges of ministry have changed with it. Many new pastors are discovering that they’re ill-equipped to manage unexpected, soul-health tensions of ministry. Some are walking away, and others are choosing to not enter the pastorate despite a sense of God’s calling.

Jesus came to seek and to save the lost, paying particular attention to the downtrodden and the poor. As followers of Jesus, Christians are called to imitate his example and reach out to those who have the least. This book offers biblical guidelines and practical strategies for reaching those on the margins of our society with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

The third in Joe Thorn's series on the confession, nature, and expression of the Church, The Life of the Church explores what the church does because of who it is. Useful for training in membership class, discipleship groups, and elder boards, The Life of the Church is at once theological, practical, and experiential. Listeners will not simply be informed, but led to a deeper conviction about their role in the body of Christ.

Spirit and Sacrament by pastor and author Andrew Wilson is an impassioned call to join together two traditions that are frequently and unnecessarily kept separate. It is an invitation to pursue the best of both worlds in worship, the Eucharistic and the charismatic, with the grace of God at the center. Wilson envisions church services in which healing testimonies, creeds, exuberant praise, and ancient liturgy coexist, and in doing so, deepen our worship and increase our joy.

Researchers have uncovered the following three trends: First, distrust of institutions, including the church, is at an all-time high. Second, young people raised in the church are leaving at alarming rates and not returning. Third, loneliness and social isolation are at pandemic levels. What’s the connection? It appears that an entire generation is starving for the very thing the church is called to provide but has chosen to look for it elsewhere. Why is this happening?