Books on Church Leadership for the 21st Century. Sometimes the best strategic plans and good leadership don't move churches in the desired direction? Toxic culture is sometimes to blame. Leaders don't sense the toxicity, but it poisons their relationships and derails their vision. Challenging the status quo of an organisation with a dynamic vision, then leading that organisation through the transformational change required, is both an exhilarating and daunting experience for any leader and leadership team. These books are written for those leaders who essentially want to be effective strategic leaders in church and para-church organizations.
Christian Books on Church and other Leadership
I have previously provided an article recommending the book 'Growing Future Leaders' by Pastor Tony Keys of Trinity Leadership. What I failed to point out that was that on the Trinity Leadership website there is an online bookshop where one might buy Books on Church Leadership
Photograph of some titles from the Trinity Leadership Bookshop
Selected Books on Church Leadership These books can be ordered online from www.trinitylead.com Cover photos below the precis section.
2.Cracking Your Church's Culture Code: Seven Keys to Unleashing Vision and Inspiration Strategies for transforming a toxic church culture by Samuel R. Chand
Why is it that the best strategic plans and good leadership often are not able to move churches in the desired direction? Sam Chand contends that toxic culture is to blame. Quite often, leaders don't sense the toxicity, but it poisons their relationships and derails their vision. This work describes five easily identifiable categories of church culture (inspiring-accepting-stagnant-discouraging-toxic), with diagnostic descriptions in the book and a separate online assessment tool. The reader will be able to identify strengths and needs of their church's culture, and then apply practical strategies (communication, control and authority, selection and placement of personnel, etc.) to make their church's culture more positive
3.Leading Transformational Change
by Pastor Tony Keys
Challenging the status quo of an organisation with a dynamic vision, then leading that organisation through the transformational change required, is both an exhilarating and daunting experience for any leader and leadership team. But, if we are to venture across the new horizons of transformational change that God has set before us it demands fresh thinking and the development of new leadership practices. The first book in this series of three, Leading Transformational Change (and included Study Guide) is the result of extensive research and discussions with over 500 church leaders across the world, along with Tony Keys’ own personal experience successfully leading several non-profit organisations through transformational change.
Selected Books on Church Leadership These books can be ordered online from www.trinitylead.com Cover photos below the precis section.
4.Hybrid Church: The Fusion of Intimacy and Impact by Dave Browning
We want both the intimacy of smallness and the impact of bigness-we want a hybrid of the two. Hybrid Church is a practical guide for clergy and leaders who want to have the best of both church worlds: the intimacy of small "house church" groups and the impact of very large mega-churches. Offers a guide for churches who want to capitalize on their strengths to build intimacy with impact. Written by the pastor of one of the "fastest growing" and "most innovative" churches in America with thousands of members organized in small house groups Outlines a vision for how the church of tomorrow could look like the early church. Given that the trend is toward very large and very small, with few churches in the middle, this book will be a welcome resource for both large and small churches.
5.Strategic Leadership
by Dr. Tony Keys
This book is written for those leaders who essentially want to be effective strategic leaders in church and para-church organizations. As well as dealing with the spiritual strategic arena in which the strategic leader operates in these times in which we live, this is a very practical book, covering such things as the gathering and analyzing of strategic information, the art of a general, formulating and implementing strategies and emotional resilience to see the vision of the organization come to fruition. We do live in turbulent times... but as Christian leaders there is much we can learn from the new disciplines and strategies being developed by our global leaders. This leadership second series has seven sessions that can each be completed in 60 to 90 minutes.
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Free to air Academic articles set forth Apologetics for and results of his discovery of an "artificial chronological scheme" running through the Bible, Josephus, the Damascus Documents of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Seder Olam Rabbah.
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