In this expanded edition, trusted church leadership consultant provides practical advice for churches to articulate their vision, implement their mission, and align their identity and direction.

Advanced Strategic Planning: A 21st-Century Model for Church and Ministry Leaders

Religion & Spirituality

Aubrey Malphurs

Christian Books & Bibles

Baker Books

Trusted church leadership consultant shows pastors how to understand their congregational culture in order to accomplish the church's mission and vision.

Look Before You Lead: How to Discern and Shape Your Church Culture

Strong leaders have vision that is both far-reaching and focused on the details. Having that vision is what separates the church with a hodge-podge of ineffective programs and activities from churches that reach people effectively, efficiently, and consistently with the Good News. Now in its third edition, this groundbreaking book continues to offer church planters, pastors, and ministry leaders concrete help with crafting vision statements, encouraging buy-in from the influencers in the church, turning up the energy level, and ultimately growing the church.

Developing a Vision for Ministry

There are many things that make up a great leader. The ability to motivate, to see the big picture, to delegate. But perhaps just as important, if not more so, is the leader's emotional intelligence (EQ). How we feel impacts how we lead, and how those we lead feel about themselves when they're around us affects how well they follow our leadership. It follows then that if we want to be the most effective leaders, we must be emotionally mature. In this practical book, church leadership expert Aubrey Malphurs shows church and ministry leaders how to assess, understand, and improve both their own EQ and that of their followers, so that they can inspire the very best in their churches and organizations.

Developing Emotionally Mature Leaders: How Emotional Intelligence Can Help Transform Your Ministry

Malphurs believes many churches have no clear vision for ministry--some have the wrong goal and some have too many. With practical principles and helpful worksheets, Malphurs shows how to define an organization, give it direction, and build popular support.

Developing a Vision for Ministry in the 21st Century

Baker Pub Group

A design theology shows each persons unique niche for service. Seven self-diagnostic interest surveys and talent inventories indicate personal gifts, interests, temperament, and talents.

Maximizing Your Effectiveness: How to Discover and Develop Your Divine Design

Health, Fitness & Dieting

If the church is to thrive in the twenty-first century, it will have to take on a new form as it ministers to the 120 million unchurched people in the United States. Planting Growing Churches for the 21st Century is still virtually the only available text on church planting in North America and beyond. In this third edition, readers will find material on the importance of healthy, biblical change in our churches, updated appendixes, insight on our post modern ministry context, and strategies for reaching new population demographics such as Generations X and Y. Pastors, ministry leaders, and church planters will find the information and advice found in this book invaluable as they carry out their ministries.

Planting Growing Churches for the 21st Century: A Comprehensive Guide for New Churches and Those Desiring Renewal

What are the core values of your ministry? Values-Driven Leadership is a pioneering work designed to help church and parachurch leaders understand the cutting-edge concept of organizational core values. Every ministry organization has a set of core values that guides what the ministry seeks to accomplish. Understanding and implementing these core values is key to a high-performing ministry. In this revised edition, Aubrey Malphurs offers important insights on new research in the field of leadership and delineates techniques for implementing those insights in practical ways. After exploring the concepts in Values-Driven Leadership, you'll be able to take concrete steps to write your ministry's values in a credo or values statement and focus in on your mission. This edition includes -Helpful discussion questions -Core values audits -A readiness-for-change inventory to help you and your ministry identify areas in need of attention -The latest research on values -New insights into the differences between values and beliefs. This is a useful book for individuals, boards, committees, and leadership teams.

Values-Driven Leadership: Discovering and Developing Your Core Values for Ministry

Every Christian wants to know, "What is God's purpose for my life? " Whether volunteering part time or involved in fulltime vocational ministry, Christians frequently struggle to find satisfaction in their areas of service. This book helps readers match who they are their unique spiritual gifts, passions, temperament, talents, and leadership style with the ministry area for which God designed them. A practical guide, it takes dedicated Christians step by step through the process of reaching their full potential for Christ's kingdom. This new edition of Maximizing Your Effectiveness puts multiple tools, inventories, and worksheets in the hands of readers to empower them to minister according to God's unique design and purpose for their lives.

Maximizing Your Effectiveness: How to Discover and Develop Your Divine Design, 2nd Edition

Most books on church planting offer a model for churches to replicateusually one that is tied to a particular style, generation, or demographic. But what churches really need is a process that is flexible, not bound to a particular time or current fad. In The Nuts and Bolts of Church Planting, trusted author and churchplanting expert Aubrey Malphurs shares the basic steps any church planter will need, regardless of his or her generation now or in the future. These steps includeestablishing values, mission, vision, and strategy reaching the communitymaking disciplesrecruiting a team determining location and facilitiesraising money for the ministry With instant practical take away based on proven techniques, this book will be invaluable to any church planter.

The Nuts and Bolts of Church Planting: A Guide for Starting Any Kind of Church

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