The Church finds itself in a period of great diversification and multiple expressions. In the midst of great change, we have become confused about what really makes for healthy and authentic pastoral leadership. What are the basic and common characteristics necessary for pastors to be effective? How can lay people understand the pastoral call more fully and partner better with pastors for the health of their church? Here Mannoia and Walkemeyer examine the foundations of pastoral effectiveness and bring together nine experienced pastoral leaders to discuss the basic characteristics that exist in effective pastors. Regardless of context or personality, ineffectiveness in pastors and subsequent ill health in churches is often not the result of a lack of calling, but instead is the result of misappropriated efforts to find success. Let’s help those who are called to be good stewards of their call. And let’s help churches have a chance to be healthy under the leadership of effective pastors!

15 Characteristics of Effective Pastors: How to Strengthen Your Inner Core and Ministry Impact

Religion & Spirituality

Walkemeyer, Larry

Mannoia, Kevin W.

Christian Books & Bibles

Baker Pub Group

This is a Christian inspirational parable on how to live and die well, based on the last seven words of Jesus Christ from the cross.

A Good Walk Home: A Parable on Living and Dying Well

Aldersgate Press

IS YOUR CHURCH MOBILIZING BELIEVERS INTO THEFULLNESS OF GOD'S CALL?The Mobilization Flywheel contains a powerful new framework which every Christian and church needs to implement in their lives and ministries. Larry Walkemeyer and Todd Wilson reveal the kind of church that will empower believers to become everyday missionaries where they live, work, and play.The authors describe how every believer can live a fully mobilized life as they serve in the sweet spot of their calling. They assert that most believers can start gatherings, and many of these gatherings can become new churches.Today churches want to make a greater kingdom impact. Believers are longing to live out their kingdom calling. Our culture is waiting for new expressions of the church. This resource offers a model for moving forward, a model which can create ever-increasing momentum for the multiplication of the church. It's called the mobilization flywheel.Identify the mobilization starting point, so you can better...Mobilize believers.Mobilize groups.Mobilize church.Engage this resource on a personal level through the authors' discussion questions. They help you process how you can mobilize those around you to increase your impact. Gain clarity on common friction points (called flywheel "drags") and ways to increase mobilization (called flywheel "aids"). Plus, learn how to articulate your "minimum ecclesiology" so that you can set believers, groups, and churches into mobilization overdrive.The wheel has started turning. Are you ready?LARRY WALKEMEYER is Lead Pastor of Light & Life Church in Long Beach, California, which is a multi-ethnic church-planting church. He also serves as Director of Equipping and Spiritual Engagement for Exponential.TODD WILSON is Co-founder and CEO of Exponential. Todd is engaged in leading-edge initiatives to help catalyze movements of healthy, multiplying churches and has written multiple books with that aim.

The Mobilization Flywheel: Creating a Culture of Biblical Mobilization

Wilson, Todd

Exponential

A COMPELLING AND BIBLICAL STRATEGY FOR PURSUING CHURCH MULTIPLICATION
Play Thuno—a wordplay on the Greek word for multiply—is the world-changing “game” every Christian and church needs to be playing. Larry Walkemeyer reveals how multiplication is not just one option for the church but is the operating principle for God’s people from Genesis to Revelation. 
Many leaders feel angst about the church model of addition that’s prevalent today, but they do not have adequate resources to help them explain the alternative: multiplication. This book serves as the instructional and inspirational handbook every church leader needs to understand the why of multiplication.
Walkemeyer offers an engaging narrative that moves multiplication from concept to eternity-altering reality.
Gain clarity on multiplication. Discover deceptions that often derail your efforts to reproduce. Learn practical principles for multiplication, twenty-one leadership essentials for multiplication, and five phases for multiplication. Most importantly, become a convinced communicator of multiplication through this book’s compelling, Scripture-based motivation for churches to multiply.
God is calling every believer to get in the “game” of multiplication. Are you ready to play?
“It would be difficult for me to more enthusiastically endorse a new book.” 
—TODD WILSON, CEO, Exponential
LARRY WALKEMEYER is Lead Pastor of Light &amp; Life Church in Long Beach, California, which is a multi-ethnic church-planting church. He also serves as Director of Equipping and Spiritual Engagement for Exponential.

Play Thuno: The World-Changing Multiplication Game

Together with Family: Flourishing in a Level Five Marriage

Walkemeyer, Deb

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