Leadership in Christian Perspective

Leadership in Christian Perspective
Author: Justin A. Irving
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2019-06-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1493418084

This book brings the best of leadership theory and research together with biblical reflection and examples of leadership in action to offer a practical guide to Christian leaders. Combining expertise in leadership studies and biblical studies, Justin Irving and Mark Strauss explore how leadership models have moved from autocratic and paternalistic leader-centered models toward an increased focus on followers. The authors show how contemporary theories such as transformational leadership, authentic leadership, and servant leadership take an important step toward prioritizing and empowering followers who work with leaders to accomplish organizational goals. Irving and Strauss organize their book around "nine empowering practices," making it accessible to students, church leaders, and business leaders. Integrating solid research in leadership studies with biblical and theological reflection on the leadership ideas that are most compatible with Christian faith, this book is an important resource for all Christian students of leadership.

Seven Steps to Becoming a Healthy Christian Leader

Seven Steps to Becoming a Healthy Christian Leader
Author: Doug Munton
Publisher: Deep River Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004-07
Genre: Christian leadership
ISBN: 9780974719009

Doug Munton reminds us all of the qualities and skills we need to be healthy leaders. If you feel overwhelmed or unfocused, this book will help you in your journey back to healthy leadership.

The Family Life of a Christian Leader

The Family Life of a Christian Leader
Author: Ajith Fernando
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2016-07-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433552930

Anyone involved in Christian ministry knows how challenging it is to balance ministry and family responsibilities. Many demands pull leaders in different directions—making it easy to neglect one or the other, often without even realizing it. Writing from decades of counseling and personal ministry experience, Ajith Fernando points Christian leaders back to the most important aspect of their lives: their relationship with God. He then offers practical guidance for responding to real-life situations in the home, including disciplining children, dealing with disappointment, loving one's spouse, and pursuing joy. This book presents Christian leaders with a healthy and God-centered understanding of family that leads to a flourishing home.

The Christian Leader

The Christian Leader
Author: Bill Hull
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2016-05-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310525349

What if everything you've heard about leadership is wrong? Secular models of leadership rooted in pragmatic success dominate Christian leadership in the West. It makes our work impersonal and exploitive. And, at worst, it serves the leader rather than those the leader leads. We need a different style of leadership—one patterned after Jesus. We need to learn to influence others out of our character, for that is what Jesus did. The Christian Leader is not about improving your church, your work, or your family; it is about changing how you lead. It does more than teach you how to modify your behavior; it shows you how to change the sources of your behavior—your motives and reasons for being a Christian leader. In the end, as everything you know and believe about Christian leadership is transformed, it will lead to transformation in those you lead and serve.

Understanding Christian Leadership

Understanding Christian Leadership
Author: Ian Parkinson
Publisher: SCM Press
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2020
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0334058740

Understanding Christian Leadership offers an examination of a distinctly Christian understanding of leadership offering a critical appraisal of insights from secular theories of leadership, exploring biblical and other theological insights into the nature and practice of leadership. Whilst arguing for a form of leadership which is widely dispersed and collaborative, the book seeks to explain the distinctive role of leaders within such a leadership economy. It also seeks to establish a proper relationship between sacred and secular leadership thinking, tackling some of the common philosophical and theological reservations to do with leadership discourse, whilst offering a critical framework for discerning the suitability for the Church of different sources of leadership thinking. Designed as core reading for leadership modules currently taught by the author across a large number of training contexts in the UK, this book is an indispensable text for those taking undergraduate or postgraduate-level qualifications in Christian leadership as well as those in other less formal leadership training contexts. Foreword by Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury

Christian Leaders of the Eighteenth Century

Christian Leaders of the Eighteenth Century
Author: John Charles Ryle
Publisher: Banner of Truth
Total Pages: 432
Release: 1978-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780851512686

At the beginning of this century, Canon A.M.W. Christopher of St. Aldate's, Oxford, declared that he turned to Ryle's book during every summer vacation for thirty years. It is time Christian Leaders was so read again.

Tozer on Christian Leadership

Tozer on Christian Leadership
Author: A. W. Tozer
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2007-09-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1600663036

Leadership Wisdom from the Late, Great A.W. Tozer A.W. Tozer knew spiritual leadership as a grave task, one demanding great devotion and even greater dependence. Tozer for the Christian Leader makes the late pastor Tozer into your personal mentor. Saying the hard things you need to hear as well as words of grace to build you up, he displays God’s Word in its full spectrum: as a sword and as bread. Ignore him and you forfeit the wealth of his wisdom for you. Plug your ears and you silence his word that instructs so highly. Read without action and you waste treasures given freely. Tozer will inspire you to work hard for God. He will call you to cultivate a Spirit-filled heart. He will urge you to have great faith—to see God big, pray expectantly, and worship fully. He will help you be a better leader, one fit for service to the Most High God. These daily reflections, grouped thematically by month, are ideal readings for any Christian leader—pastor or otherwise.

Time Management for the Christian Leader

Time Management for the Christian Leader
Author: Ken Willard
Publisher:
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2015
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781630884253

God gives each of us the same 168 hours a week. Why is it that some of us seem to spend our time more effectively and more efficiently than others? Our time is too short and our ministries too important for us to waste any of the hours God has entrusted to us. Author Ken Willard outlines some best practices, time wasters to avoid, and examples designed to apply in your life and ministry. How do we plan for the long-term, the short-term, and the daily? What are the connections between our tasks and our goals? Is there space between your load and your limit? Time Management for Christian Leaders challenges readers to identify why they are interested in improving their time management skills, where they currently struggle, and where they want to spend more time.

Lead So Others Can Follow

Lead So Others Can Follow
Author: James T. Bradford
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Christian leadership
ISBN: 9781680670738

In Lead So Others Can Follow, Jim Bradford offers practical leadership advice in a simple yet compelling format. Let this book help you face the challenge to keep spirituality and biblical principles hardwired into your leadership.

Transforming Christian Leadership

Transforming Christian Leadership
Author: Jerry C. Wofford
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group (MI)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Christian leadership
ISBN: 9780801090936

A framework for transforming Christian leadership that enlists the service of others and motivates them by encouraging changes in their values, visions, commitments, and lives.