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Leaders On Leadership
$25.00Add to cartHow does a Christian lead? By following today’s secular business models, or by simply studying the life of Christ and pursuing a servant-based style? In this insightful, practical book, George Barna has pulled together some of today’s top Christian leaders to talk about the subject of Christian leadership. Articles include: The Tasks of a Leader by Ken Gangel, The Character of a Leader by Jack Hayford, Prayer in Leading People by Peter Wagner, and much more. See what today’s leaders have to say about leadership, and learn what it takes to serve the Church as a Christ-centered change agent.
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44 Questions For Congregational Self Appraisal
$23.99Add to cartChurches don’t sit still; they are either planning for the future or wishing for the past. Yet, even when setting about to discern the future into which the Spirit is leading, how does a congregation map its way? How does it understand its strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and limitations, gifts and graces? In 44 Questions for Congregational Self-Appraisal, Lyle E. Schaller directs the reader to the crucial questions a church must ask itself if it is to understand its mission and the course it must chart in order to achieve that mission. He helps pastors, congregational leaders, and strategic planning groups understand that the questions we ask and the data we gather tend to set our priorities, and for this reason it is crucial to seek the correct information from the outset. Schaller shows church leaders how not to become trapped by “means to an end” questions (real estate, staffing, money, and schedules) and focus instead on questions related to the congregation’s distinctive mission (identity, purpose, role, and God’s call) and message.
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Corporate Person : The Nature Of Volunteer Boards, Their Culture, And Corpo (Lar
$14.00Add to cartNo volunteer board is exactly alike. Everyone has its own corporate personality and collective culture. Yet, each board is formed by people who come together to envision, think, act, and speak with a common mission, and so grow and work together for the good of the community. It is for those people that this book is intended.
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Deeply Woven Roots
$25.00Add to cartImproving the quality of life in your community. Gunderson takes the eight major strengths of congregations and shows how they can be used to fill the gap between what a health care system will pay for and what it won’t in caring for their members. Help your church become a more imaginative, courageous, and effective enabler of healing and well-being in personal and societal life.
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Leadership Is The Key
$25.99Add to cartEvery clergyperson has a persona: the public role he or she assumes in performing ministry for a congregation or organization. For example, the roles of preaching, pastoring, and church administration “go with the territory” in most congregations. These tasks are part of the employment contract.
Every clergyperson also has an anima: the true inner self, reflecting deeply held ideals of conduct. Because this inner core of being controls how a pastor lives out the details of ministry, anima determines how effectively he or she fits the needs of a particular congregation or ministry role. For example, a minister who relates poorly to youth is seldom productive as a youth minister.
Listing twelve elements of the pastor’s anima mix, Herb Miller asserts that clergy are effective to the extent that the conscious and unconscious choices they make in developing each of these elements fit the needs of the congregation or church organization they serve. In Leadership Is the Key, he offers practical ways to influence these choices and maximize effectiveness in ministry.
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Clergy Killers : Guidance For Pastors And Congregation Under Attack
$30.00Add to cartIn a startling survey by Leadership, it was discovered that 23 percent of Protestant clergy have been fired at least once, and, even more significantly, 41 percent of congregations have fired at least two pastors. Rediger offers conflict management tactics for these “abusive” congregations.
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Learning Congregation : A New Vision Of Leadership
$25.00Add to cartCongregations today face an adaptive challenge of immense proportions. Many respond with classic signs of work avoidance: holding to past assumptions and blaming authority. Thomas Hawkins’s new vision of church leadership can provide a way to break through these defensive routines. The Learning Congregation is a must read for all pastors and church leaders.
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12 Keys To An Effective Church (Teacher’s Guide)
$25.00Add to cartIn this indispensable companion volume to Twelve Keys to an Effective Church, Kennon Callahan offers a practical, step-by-step guide for the most productive long-range planning. This guide will help both pastors and church leaders assess the strengths and weaknesses of their churches in 12 areas — ranging from specific mission objectives to solid financial resources — and shows leaders how to determine which methods will work best to advance their church and move their congregations toward action, accomplishment, and success.
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Leadership Secrets Of Jesus
$15.00Add to cartPossibly The Greatest Leadership Book Ever Written-Powerful “Leadership Secrets” That Build True, Lasting Achievement. Included are…5 Power Keys For Effective Delegation / The Secret of Handling Rejection / How To Deal With The Mistakes of Others…Plus Many More.
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Making Of A Leader
$23.99Add to cartHistory shows us: nations rise and fall according to how effective their leaders are. Frank Damazio tells us: so do churches! In The Making of a Leader, Damazio provides a deep discussion of what it means to be responsible for a group of “followers.” He explains the philosophy, history, qualifications, preparation, and practice of Christian leadership—and equips you to rise above the evil forces competing for lost souls.
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Preparing For Christian Ministry (Limited)
$32.00Add to cartStudents preparing for vocational ministry in seminaries and colleges encounter unique challenges and opportunities. Preparing for Christian Ministry assists students by providing seasoned advice from professors on a variety of themes: the call and transition into ministry training, personal and professional developmental issues, the tasks of ministry, and contemporary social and ethical issues.
This text was written by former and current professors at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary who were commissioned to write articles in their area of expertise that would be appropriate for use in the seminary’s first-year “Formation for Christian Ministry” classes.
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Seeker And Servant
$35.00Add to cartThis collection of original essays expands on visionary Robert K. Greenleaf’s servant-leadership theme. It offers thought-provoking ideas on how religious institutions and individuals can serve in a more caring way by applying the ideas and ideals of Greenleaf’s servant-leadership vision.
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Bush Was Blazing But Not Consumed
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Best-selling author Eric Law shows how to work with the dynamics of diverse cultures to create a truly inclusive community.
In his widely acclaimed The Wolf Shall Dwell with the Lamb, Eric H. F. Law explores the dynamics of multicultural misunderstandings and how different cultures perceive and use power. Here he shows how to work with those dynamics to create a truly inclusive community.Using Exodus 3 as a theological starting point, Law explains in detail how leaders can:
– understand and resolve difference in communication styles
– recognize and avoid the “Golden Calf Syndrome”
– reconcile high-context and low-content elements in the group
– use mutual invitation
– build dialogue through liturgyFollowing Law’s practical guidelines, we can, in the end, build multicultural structures everyone can live and thrive in
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Leading Women
$29.99Add to cartThis helpful volume shows women how to communicate and influence decisions in the male-dominated world of church leadership. Becker names gender traps, examines the unique perspective that women bring to leadership in the church, and explores communication strategies for both women and men. This book is part of a new series by Norman Shawchuck, developer of the Marketing/Leading/Managing trilogy. New paradigms for communication and leadership will be presented in order to further the advancement of vocation for women in ministry.
Key Features: * examines the unique perspective that women bring to leadership in the church * names the gender traps * explores communication strategies for women and men
Key Benefits: * helps pastors address issues concerning the rapidly growing number of women in positions of church leadership * show how to avoid traps that are set up to limit women in their ministries * shows women how to communicate and influence decisions in a male-dominated world.
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Team Ministry : Putting Together A Team That Makes Churches Grow
$16.99Add to cartUsing a step by step approach, Dick Iverson explains the biblical pattern for local chruch admisistration – a plurality of elders led by God’s “set man”. He provides a method for establishing a team ministry within any local chruch that includes 12 principles on how to maintain the leadership team once it is put into place. He concludes the text with information on how to discover and train young leaders within the church.
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Making Of A Leader (Student/Study Guide)
$7.99Add to cartIn The Making Of A Leader, Frank Damazio lays out for the serious student a broad and deep discussion of what it means to be responsible for a group of “followers.” This perennial bestseller presents a scriptural analysis of the philosophy, history, qualifications, preparation and practice of Christian leadership. It’s concepts and principles have been tested and taught in classrooms and seminars world wide. Charts, diagrams and illustrations enhance this intriguing study on Christian Leadership. Both in its breadth and depth, it is a commendable work and recommended for your careful study.
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Stained Glass Ceiling
$24.00Add to cartAs record numbers of women graduate from seminaries,they are increasingly filling positions once held exclusivelyby men. Purvis documents what happened in the lives of two congregations that appointed women senior pastors and the impact these appointments had on all concerned. She carefully assesses the changes and discerns the significance of female leadership as opposed to male leadership in these two settings.
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Effective Keys To Successful Leadership
$14.99Add to cartLearn, from this dynamic model, what it takes to build an effective leadership team and healthy local church. Common ministry temptations and tensions are candidly discussed, emphasizing the need for personal vision and mission in your ministry.
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Spiritual Life : The Foundation For Preaching And Teaching
$26.00Add to cartJohn Westerhoff offers this resource to help preachers and teachers revitalize their lives and ministries. Noting that the health of our spiritual life is based on our image of God, he asks readers to open their imaginations to new ways of knowing. Recognizing that the spiritual life can be fostered in many ways, he helps readers recognize which types of spiritual formation are most compatible with particular personality types.
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Everyday Anytime Guide To Christian Leadership
$12.00Add to cartThe Everyday, Anytime Guide to Christian Leadership is a book for you regardless of when or where you find yoursef leading. It provides a wonderful oppurtunity to learn about the real character of leadership from someone who models what he teaches.
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Islam : An Introduction For Christians
$19.99Add to cartWhat do Muslims believe? How do Muslims pray and worship? What are the similarities and differences between Christianity and Islam? These and many other questions are answered in this informative introduction to Islam. Christians of all denominations will find reliable and up to date information on Islam and its relationship to Christianity. The first part of the book surveys the faith and life of Islam, exploring the subjects of the Qur’an, Muhammad, beliefs about God, justice and the law, women and family, death and eternal life. Part 2 tells about Islam in North America, both its early history and the current situatuion. Part 3 describes various groups and movements within Islam. Part 4 looks at Islam and Christianity, their encounters in history, the Bible and the Qur’an, and how Jesus is regarded by Muslims. Part 5 presents a Christian evaluation of Islam.
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Winning Attitude : Your Key To Personal Success
$17.99Add to cartJohn Maxwell not only discovered the winning attitude, but he has also experienced the incredible difference it makes. Today he speaks extensively across the United States at business meetings and conferences on the issues of leadership.
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Leadership For Women In The Church
$16.99Add to cartThis book is about how Christian women can identify and focus their leadership skills on tasks that need to be undertaken in the church. It is about how Christian men can recognize and use the leadership talents of the women in the church. Finally, it is about how local churches, those with denominational affiliation and those without, can integrate the full range of women’s abilities with the tremendous needs in the kingdom of God.
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From Generation To Generation
$35.00Add to cartBased on years of experience as a pastor and professor of theology, John Leith reflects on the dilemma of the church today as primarily “a crisis of faith.” He states that renewal is found within Scripture and the tradition of a believing, worshiping community–in hearing the word of God, particularly in preaching, in teaching, in the sacraments, and in Christian conversation.
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Co Creating : A Feminist Vision Of Ministry
$28.00Add to cartExamining the thought of prominent feminist theologians and the views of practicing clergywomen, Lynn N. Rhodes articulates a vision of ministry that can enrich the whole church. She focuses on the feminist approach to the vital questions of authority, salvation, mission, and vocation
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Now That Youre A Deacon
$14.99Add to cart1. Understand Your Work As A Deacon
2. Serve As Partner With Your Pastor
3. Translate Qualifications Into Service
4. Sharpen Your Skills For Deacon Service
5. Become A Caring Witness
6. Support Your Church And Denomination
7. Grow As A Christian Steward
8. Magnify Christ In Your Home
9. Know The How And Why Of Deacon Work133 Pages
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From the publisher: A combination of practical guidance and inspiration on character, relationship to church and pastor, stewardship, missions and more. -
Active Spirituality : A Guide For Seekers And Ministers
$26.00Add to cartA practical guidebook for the inquiring layperson seeking a holistic, intelligent look at the spiritual life, and for the pastor or religious professional seeking a systematic framework and spiritual practices to re-ignite the flame of faith. Groff explains what it means to believe and what to do after you say you believe-through a unique integration of spirituality and service, heart and mind, and various faith traditions. Explore five spiritual disciplines: community, solitude, learning, service, and vocation. Great for study groups.
