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Institutional Intelligence
Attached to this post is a chapter-by-chapter summary of the book Institutional Intelligence by Gordon Smith.
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September 23, 2020
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Your Church Council: The Nucleus of Renewal?
In Charles Olson's book, Transforming Church Boards into Communities of Spiritual Leaders, he asks: what if there is another way of looking at the work of the church council?
January 22, 2020
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Innovative Solutions for Women's Ministry Leaders
It's easy to fall into a comfortable rut, to forget that there is more than one "right" way to do a job.
March 7, 2018
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Communicate Like a True Leader: 30 Days of Life-Changing Wisdom
My new book is 30 days of short readings about the essentials of true leadership communication in the age of social media, turmoil, distrust, and growing conflicts that challenge civil discourse. See the complete post to get a free excerpt!
August 11, 2015
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What I Read This Summer — Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership
I just finished what has got to be the best book on leadership I have read yet. Instead of a list of strategies, it was about how our relationship with God strengthens our own soul for leadership.
October 28, 2014
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Who Are We Pleasing?
Leaders cannot balance all the needs, wants, demands, expectations, suggestions and assumptions of the individuals they seek to serve. So how can we be intentional about avoiding the people pleasing trap?
September 11, 2014
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The Permanent Revolution Playbook
A practical resource for assisting church leaders in identifying, understanding and intentionally engaging the fivefold ministries of apostles, prophets, evangelists, shepherds and teachers (APEST) that exist within their congregations.
July 17, 2014
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Creating a Missional Culture: Equipping the Church for the Sake of the World
This book presents an alternative model for churches, from its leadership structure to its mobilization of the laity, that hopes to recreate the church Jesus and the apostles cultivated: a church not chasing the wind but rather going into the world and making disciples of Jesus.
July 17, 2014
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Sentness: Six Postures of Missional Christians
This book is designed to enlighten, encourage and equip church leaders as they seek to rediscover the 'sentness' inherent in the message of the gospel and the purpose of church.
July 10, 2014
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How to Shepherd God's People Like Jesus
What does effective church leadership look like? Pastor Jeramie Rinne sets forth an easy-to-understand “job description” for elders drawn from the Bible’s teaching on church leadership.
July 9, 2014
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Leading With a Limp
Dan Allender argues that the best leaders live paradoxical lives, where they lead with power because of their weakness, find success through acknowledging their failures and lose their life, so that they might save it.
July 4, 2014
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Strength Finders 2.0
A highly-insightful, practical, personal and economical online strengths assessment tool, partnered with comprehensive 'unpacking' support through the accompanying book and website.
June 19, 2014
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Protege: Developing Your Next Generation of Church Leaders
In this book Saccone shows how you can raise up leaders from within your own community and develop them into passionate, faithful servants of God.
May 23, 2014
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An Eight-Week Guide to Incarnational Community
"Making it look easy takes a lot of practice" say Matt Smay and Hugh Halter about incarnational life and missional community. "A workbook alone won't get the job done...It also includes learning to take personal responsibility for your own calling."
May 16, 2014
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Building a Discipling Culture
"If we make disciples like Jesus made them, we'll never have a problem finding leaders or seeing new people coming to faith " - Mike Breen
May 16, 2014
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Center Church: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City
This book presents a incredibly comprehensive vision for how pastors and ministry leaders can adapt to a post-Christian culture without abandoning orthodox theology.
May 15, 2014
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Don't Invite Them to Church
In this wonderfully biblical and practical resource Karen Wilk puts her finger on where the established church has strayed from developing leaders the way that Jesus did.