Church leaders want to know that their leadership strategies are informed by Christian teaching and made credible by the authority of Scripture. In addition, pastors have an unquenchable thirst for new and unique approaches to leadership. These needs and many more are met as Robert Dale takes the reader through four primary leadership strategies in the New Testament. Focus is a strategy that one learns through study of Jesus' mission and leadership influence. Flexibility is the strategy learned as the Church expands through the Acts of the Apostles. Future-Orientation is the strategy emphasized through the pastoral Epistles. Feasibility is the strategy developed in the Book of Revelation, when the churches are in crisis or in survival mode. Each strategy is illustrated with practical application for the life of congregations so that leaders can sharpen leadership skills with integrity and authority.

Leading Edge: Leadership Strategies from the New Testament

History

Dale, Robert D.

World

ABINGDON PRESS *

This comprehensive problem-solving reference for pastors provides theological foundations and experience-tested techniques for effective clergy leadership. Robert D. Dale offers insight into the dynamics of clergy management by placing leadership into a congregational context and stressing servanthood as the primary biblical leadership image. Following a discussion of the three critical dimensions of organizational effectiveness, Dale explores and critiques the four basic leadership styles: catalyst, commander, encourager, and hermit. Out of this background exploration, Dale discloses decision-making guidelines that have proved effective in helping clergy: resolve conflicts; lead churches through change; define the congregation's dream; budget resources effectively; manage meetings; build teams; and, motivate oneself and others. Pastoral Leadership concludes with a unique look at the effects of clergy leadership on the pastor as a person, offering valuable insight into clergy spirituality, burnout, family demands, and career development. Notes, a bibliography, and review questions accompany each chapter.

Pastoral Leadership: A Handbook of Resources for Effective Congregational Leadership

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Surviving Difficult Church Me

How to help your church come alive. There are four ways to revitalize a church. The easiest change is policy change. You simply adjust the way you do things. A second strategy is to change personnel. Another change tactic is to create new program structures. Change policy. Change people. Change programs. Each approach has its advocates. But the approach the author suggests is the most basic of all - clarify purpose.

To Dream Again

Baptist Sunday School Board

Every church leader knows the necessity and difficulty of maintaining and enhancing morale. Visions of service, excellent programs, and capable personnel are not enough to keep the ship of the church on course if spirit is lacking. In 'Keeping the Dream Alive', Robert D. Dale skillfully analyzes the various factors that determine congregational morale. Using the metaphor of weather, he discusses such subjects as steering currents, seeding the clouds, prevailing winds, and long-range forecasting. The result is a book characterized by depth and practicality. If you are struggling to keep your congregation on course in fulfilling its mission, this book will be an invaluable resource for 'Keeping the Dream Alive'.

Keeping the Dream Alive

Ministers As Leaders (Broadman leadership series)

Ministers As Leaders

Evangelizing the Hard-To-Reach (Broadman Leadership Series)

Miles, Delos

There are many books for churches looking to start with a healthy beginning. But what happens after the big boom of a church's start? Today, roughly eight of ten American congregations are either static or in decline. Many of those churches started out with an outstanding start. But why didn't they succeed in the long run? This book is about church growth and health from a different angle-long-term growth and vitality. Author Bob Dale writes from his more than thirty-years of experience to show not just how to plant a church, but how to keep it healthy and always growing. A TCP Leadership Series title.

Cultivating Perennial Churches: Your Guide to Long-Term Growth (TCP Leadership Series)

Chalice Press

After more than twenty years of leading and lecturing on leadership models based on a CEO approach to leadership, Robert Dale has taken a 180 degree turn. Rather than the "pry and push" mechanical models of industry, Dale has moved to an organic "sow and grow" approach. The issue, says Dale, is whether or not congregational leaders really believe the church of Jesus Christ is alive. If congregations are living communities, they deserve to be lead in ways that plant seeds of faith in good seedbeds and then cultivate the seeds that germinate until harvest. This very old (biblical) and very new (postmodern) way of conceptualizing leadership begins with growing leaders then moves to community health and growth. In Seeds for the Future, Robert Dale continually challenges church leaders to practice pastoral leadership in a new way. He uses examples and coaching conversations to weave three growth processes into a practice model for living churches: connecting, centering, and challenging. This new model becomes interlocking, ongoing processes for focusing living communities on growth and health.

Seeds for the Future: Growing Organic Leaders for Living Churches (TCP Leadership Series)

Good News from Great Leaders

Religious Studies

Alban Inst

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