Lead Like It Matters to God

Lead Like It Matters to God
Author: Richard Stearns
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2021-03-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0830847316

Sharing the principles he has learned over a remarkable corporate and ministry career, Richard Stearns offers seventeen crucial values that transform leaders and their organizations. When leaders embody these ideals, they not only improve their witness for Christ, they shape institutions, influence culture, and create healthy workplaces where people can flourish.

Lead Like It Matters

Lead Like It Matters
Author: Craig Groeschel
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2022-08-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310362849

*Note: Lead Like It Matters is a completely revised and updated version of the book previously published as It: How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It.* Discover the secret to igniting a life-giving, soul-transforming, people-inspiring movement in your organization, church, or ministry--and the trick to keeping the momentum going. In Lead Like It Matters, New York Times bestselling author and pastor Craig Groeschel shares the transformative insights he's learned about how to effectively build a thriving, enduring ministry and organization. Using the leadership skills he's mastered as the founder and senior pastor of Life.Church--one of the largest churches in the world and an organization that Glassdoor has named a #1 U.S. Best Place to Work--he combines straight talk and wry honesty with biblical and leadership principles to equip you to: Recognize when your organization or ministry has the indefinable but tangible "it" that leads to success Identify and implement seven leadership principles for a church that lasts Ignite a fire in your team to leave behind "what we've always done" for the meaningful ministry you know is possible Discover the three areas every leader must master for success Praise for Lead Like It Matters: "My friend Craig Groeschel is the visionary and pioneer of America's largest church. In Lead Like It Matters, he's generous enough to share the most important lessons he's learned along the way. This isn't just an insightful and interesting book; it's a game-changing guide to leading with purpose." --Steven Furtick, lead pastor, Elevation Church; New York Times bestselling author, Crash the Chatterbox, Greater, (Un)Qualified

Worship Matters (Foreword by Paul Baloche)

Worship Matters (Foreword by Paul Baloche)
Author: Bob Kauflin
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2008-03-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433519372

Nothing is more essential than knowing how to worship the God who created us. This book focuses readers on the essentials of God-honoring worship, combining biblical foundations with practical application in a way that works in the real world. The author, a pastor and noted songwriter, skillfully instructs pastors, musicians, and church leaders so that they can root their congregational worship in unchanging scriptural principles, not divisive cultural trends. Bob Kauflin covers a variety of topics such as the devastating effects of worshiping the wrong things, how to base our worship on God's self-revelation rather than our assumptions, the fuel of worship, the community of worship, and the ways that eternity's worship should affect our earthly worship. Appropriate for Christians from varied backgrounds and for various denominations, this book will bring a vital perspective to what readers think they understand about praising God.

Lead Like It Matters to God Study Guide

Lead Like It Matters to God Study Guide
Author: Richard Stearns
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 75
Release: 2021-03-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0830847200

In this eight-session companion study guide to Lead Like It Matters to God, Richard Stearns explores seventeen values that will transform your leadership. This dynamic guide also provides discussion starters for groups about how values-driven leadership improves our witness for Christ, influences culture, and creates healthy workplaces.

Leaders on Leadership (The Leading Edge Series)

Leaders on Leadership (The Leading Edge Series)
Author: George Barna
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 448
Release: 1998-04-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441223614

How 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.

True Worshipers

True Worshipers
Author: Bob Kauflin
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2015-09-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433542331

Everyone worships. But Jesus tells us that God is seeking a particular kind of worshiper. In True Worshipers, a seasoned pastor and musician guides readers toward a more engaging, transformative, and biblically faithful understanding of the worship God is seeking. True worship is an activity rooted in the grace of the gospel that affects every area of our lives. And while worship is more than just singing, God’s people gathering in his presence to lift their voices in song is an activity that is biblically based, historically rooted, and potentially life-changing. Thoroughly based in Scripture and filled with practical guidance, this book connects Sunday worship to the rest of our lives—helping us live as true worshipers each and every day.

A Stranger in the House of God

A Stranger in the House of God
Author: John Koessler
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2009-08-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310864216

Growing up the son of agnostics, John Koessler saw a Catholic church on one end of the street and a Baptist on the other. In the no-man’s land between the two, this curious outside wondered about the God they worshipped—and began a lifelong search to comprehend the grace and mystery of God. A Stranger in the House of God addresses fundamental questions and struggles faced by spiritual seekers and mature believers. Like a contemporary Pilgrim’s Progress, it traces the author’s journey and explores his experiences with both charismatic and evangelical Christianity. It also describes his transformation from religious outsider to ordained pastor. John Koessler provides a poignant and often humorous window into the interior of the soul as he describes his journey from doubt and struggle with the church to personal faith

Tempered Resilience

Tempered Resilience
Author: Tod Bolsinger
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2020-11-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830841652

What type of leadership is needed in a moment that demands adaptive change? Exploring the qualities of adaptive leadership within churches and nonprofit organizations, Tod Bolsinger deftly examines both the external challenges we face and the internal resistance that holds us back, showing how leaders can become both stronger and more flexible.

When God Builds a Church

When God Builds a Church
Author: Bob Russell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2010-06-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1451604793

Pastor Bob Russell shares the ten principles upon which Southeast Christian Church, one of the largest and fastest growing churches in America, was founded. He shares not only the story of one of the most amazing churches in America, but also what your church can become if you follow the principles and allow God to build your church. Can the church truly be the "city on a hill that cannot be hidden" that Jesus talked about in the Sermon on the Mount? Can it grow large enough to attract throngs of seekers and yet be loving enough to care for each individual that comes? Bob Russell, pastor of Southeast Christian Church—one of the largest and fastest growing churches in America—says that it most certainly can. But it can only be done when we are submissive to God's will and allow Him to build that church. In the pages of this far-sighted, uncompromising book, Bob Russell and his son Rusty share the ten principles upon which this remarkable church was founded. Throughout the book, you will see God's mighty power at work in a church that began in 1962 with only 50 members and has now grown to over 14,000 and has become a bustling "city on a hill" whose beaming faith powerfully impacts its community and the world. This book shares not only the story of one of the most amazing churches in America but also the story of what your church can become as you follow these ten time-tested principles and allow God to build your church.