Leadership in Christian Perspective
Leadership in Christian Perspective

Author: Justin A. Irving

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2019-06-18

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1493418084

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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.

Christian Leaders of the Eighteenth Century
Christian Leaders of the Eighteenth Century

Author: John Charles Ryle

Publisher: Banner of Truth

Published: 1978-01-01

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9780851512686

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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.

Christian Leadership
Christian Leadership

Author: John Stott

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2012-09-27

Total Pages: 65

ISBN-13: 0830862579

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This nine-session LifeGuide® Bible Study by John Stott is based on his book Basic Christian Leadership and covers the first four chapters of 1 Corinthians, in which Paul responds to a complex church situation and to questions the Corinthians have addressed to him. He does so with clarity, wisdom, humility, love and gentleness—qualities that we can learn from as leaders today.

Seven Steps to Becoming a Healthy Christian Leader
Seven Steps to Becoming a Healthy Christian Leader

Author: Doug Munton

Publisher: Deep River Books

Published: 2004-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780974719009

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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.

Understanding Christian Leadership
Understanding Christian Leadership

Author: Ian Parkinson

Publisher: SCM Press

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 0334058740

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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

Organizational Leadership
Organizational Leadership

Author: Jack Burns

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2014-05-16

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0830896171

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This comprehensive text for Christians on organizational leadership provides theological foundations while tracing the historic roots of management, organization and leadership theories. All of this leads to five essential challenges and practices--communication, negotiation, decision-making, financial stewardship and personal development.

A Contrarian's Guide to Knowing God
A Contrarian's Guide to Knowing God

Author: Larry Osborne

Publisher: Multnomah

Published: 2018-02-20

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0735290970

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An updated edition with two all-new chapters, a new introduction, and a fresh look, this book challenges widely accepted ideas about what it means to know God and offers fresh paths for pursuing genuine spirituality. This practical guide speaks to those who are weary of formulaic faith or who are haunted by nagging doubts about the church, as well as those who find the traditional spiritual disciplines impractical or even agonizing because of their personal wiring. Easy to read but filled with challenging ideas, this book provides a spiritual foundation for pastors and teachers, committed Christians, and anyone interested in discovering God for themselves but wary of predictable paths.

Problems of Christian Leadership
Problems of Christian Leadership

Author: John Stott

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2013-12-06

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 0830871926

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Christian leaders face challenges. But God works with us and through us to accomplish his purposes. Available here for the first time in English is John Stott's practical wisdom for younger leaders. Speaking personally from his own experience, Stott addresses issues of discouragement, self-discipline, relationships and youth.

Lead So Others Can Follow
Lead So Others Can Follow

Author: James T. Bradford

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781680670738

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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.

Christian Leadership Essentials
Christian Leadership Essentials

Author: David S. Dockery

Publisher: B&H Publishing Group

Published: 2011-03-15

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 1433673398

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Christian Leadership Essentials finds university president David S. Dockery assembling a great wealth of tried and true insights on the distinctive methods of leading Christian organizations and institutions. No matter how much experience a faith-based leader may already have, there are plenty of fresh thoughts and indispensable guiding principles here on topics including finance and budget planning, mission and vision, employee relations, theological foundations, mentoring, crisis management, and more. A majority of the nineteen contributors are active academic presidents, including Robert B. Sloan (Houston Baptist University; "A Biblical Model of Leadership"), Judson Carlberg (Gordon College; "Managing the Organization"), Jon Wallace (Azusa Pacific University; "Financial Oversight and Budget Planning"), Evans Whitaker (Anderson University [South Carolina]; "Development, Campaigns, and Building Projects"), Carl Zylstra (Dordt College; "Accreditation and Government Relations"), Jim Edwards (Anderson University [Indiana]; "Relationships with Multiple and Various Constituencies"), Phil Eaton (Seattle Pacific University; "Employee Relations in a Grace-filled Community"), Barry Corey (Biola University; "Engaging the Culture"), and Randall O'Brien (Carson-Newman College; "The Leader as Mentor and Pastor").