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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Canterbury Press Norwich (28 Feb 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1853118133
  • ISBN-13: 978-1853118135
  • Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.4 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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A companion to the popular Creative Church Leadership, this new co-publication with "MODEM" focuses on the practical skills necessary for dynamic leadership in the local church. A wide range of experienced church leaders and management gurus reflect on key components of successful contemporary church leadership including: part one which discusses people, leading a team, choosing and mentoring assistants, leading lay ministers and volunteers, how to delegate, how to resolve conflict; part two which describes organisation, leading churches of different sizes, leading multiple congregations, relating to the local community, initiating and completing projects, how to chair meetings; and, part three which discusses up close and personal, what kind of a leader are you, getting your work/life balance right, thinking strategically, preaching with a purpose, and much more.


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JOHN NELSON was Head of Management Studies at Liverpool Polytechnic (now Liverpool John Moore University)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, 16 Feb 2009
By R. S. Stanier "Robert Stanier" (London) - See all my reviews
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I'd hoped this would be a concise collection summing up different approaches to church leadership and giving practical steps to putting that into action.
If this is indeed what the book hopes to do, it doesn't really succeed.
It's a motley collection, with rather scattergun chapters by different authors, e.g. one on encouraging work to be more of a focus of preaching, one on how to chair a PCC, one on Myerrs-Briggs indicators and how priests typically fit. Instead of feeling comprehensive, it feels bitty.
At this stage, a confession: I haven't read every chapter so apologies to contributors who are unfairly scarred by association, but each chapter I have read demands serious tightening, and so I'm not encouraged to keep on going.
Take this piece of advice from Peter Stevenson's chapter on preaching and leadership: "Rather than feeling obliged to tell my congregation everything that is in the text, on every occasion, I believe that my task is to discern the specific Word of the Lord, from this specific section of the Bible, for this group of people at this particular time."p98
If this seems to you to be radical and interesting, then maybe this is the book for you. But surely this is just a deeply conventional, indeed often cited view, and yet it's presented as something of a revelation.
Or again, Vaughan S Roberts (not the minister at St Ebbe's, as I presumed before reading it) has a chapter on clowning and other models of leadership, which hints at being brilliant, but never really adds up. What exactly is being suggested that we do?
The usually reliable Peter Brierley does a chapter on Thinking Strategically and then cites as a key example a sensational, but seemingly opportunity-led, church leader in South Africa. Maybe it was me, but I couldn't get the Strategy bit at all, save that be prepared to follow instincts or promptings by the spirit, even if they are risky.
Too many of the essays feel like first drafts which should have been sent back and redrafted. Then maybe we'd have a much better book.
Sorry.
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