Download or read book Leadership in the Wesleyan Spirit written by Lovett Hayes Weems and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a guide to church leadership based on the principles and practices of the Wesleyan movement.
Download or read book Grace to Lead written by Carder Kenneth and published by Foundery Books. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wesleyan leadership is about character. This book is designed specifically for Christian leaders and teachers. The revised edition expands includes more illustrations and models of leadership. Greater attention is given to congregations and institutions.
Download or read book Church Leadership in the Wesleyan Spirit for the Russian Eurasian Context written by Eduard Khegay and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book World Mission in the Wesleyan Spirit written by Darrell L. Whiteman and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Mission in the Wesleyan Spirit documents how Wesleyan mission has been understood and practiced from biblical, theological, historical, cultural, and strategic perspectives. --from publisher description
Download or read book Pastoral Leadership Is written by Dave Earley and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2012 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dozens of brief yet powerful entries for pastors about what it really means to be on-mission, spiritual warriors who lead the local church from a biblical point of view instead of a modern traditional one.
Download or read book Leadership the Wesleyan Way written by Aaron Perry and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-24 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A comprehensive, readable book, yet with excellent research, on shaping leaders both in thought and practice from a Wesleyan perspective...a culture-changing book on leadership that transcends the business model to a theological foundation." - Jo Anne Lyon, former General Superintendent; Ambassador, The Wesleyan Church
Download or read book Lead Like Wesley written by Mark Gorveatte and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When John Wesley responded to God's call, it wasn't a clever corporate strategy that would lead to the historic transformation of the church-it was personal. Wesley followed and God in turn empowered him to transform and empower others to likewise lead. In Lead Like Wesley, author Mark Gorveatte offers a guided tour of foundational leadership principles ("helps") gleaned from the wealth of Wesley's wisdom and experience. With thoughtful, authentic application from Gorveatte "s own decades of ministry leadership trials and errors, he distills practical leadership principles that can ignite transformation today in both lay and professional ministry leadership. Begin the transformation of your leadership style by following God and by learning to lead like Wesley. Book jacket.
Download or read book Wesleyan Leadership in Troubled Times written by David L. McKenna and published by Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City. This book was released on 2002 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christians are to be in the world, not of the world. But worldly self-interest has crept into the church. The ultimate goals of filling empty pews, constructing bigger buildings, and ultimately gaining greater glory for the church itself are disguised by seemingly altruistic strategies like 'church planting' and 'marketing the Gospel.' Wesleyan Leadership in Troubled Times calls the church to be holy and whole in motive, mission, and ministry. McKenna challenges the church to confront our self-interested culture with the self-sacrificing love of Jesus Christ.
Download or read book Transforming Evangelism written by Henry H. Knight III and published by Upper Room Books. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because of the more aggressive and confrontational tactics we hear about, evangelism has developed a bad connotation. Doors are shut hurriedly, phone calls end abruptly, and e-mails left unanswered. After all, isn't this a task better handled by the pastor? Perhaps it's time to reexamine John Wesley's model of evangelism as a full, natural circle—where it's a communal beginning point rather than a solitary end. The central motive of authentic evangelism is: Having received a message that's made all the difference in our lives, we desire to share that message with others in the hope that it will transform their lives as well. Wesley models an evangelism that reaches out and welcomes, invites, and nurtures, and speaks to both head and heart. "Evangelism is about relationship," the authors write. "How we are in relationship to God, who is able to transform us into new beings. How we are in relationship to our neighbor, whom we must love like ourselves." As one reviewer says, "Knight and Powe have given us a relational book. They describe the deep connection between John Wesley's thoughts, Charles Wesley's hymns, scholarly thinking about evangelism and biblical understandings of the gospel—all in relation to the needs, concerns, and hopes of everyday people." Learn on your own or as a congregational group from this practical study on living an evangelistic life that demonstrates the transforming power of loving God and neighbor.
Download or read book Evangelism Theology in the Wesleyan Spirit written by Albert Cook Outler and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We must focus on the spiritual quest of persons and create the spaces/places where they can encounter God, practice the spiritual disciplines, and grow in discipleship.
Download or read book The 19 written by Carolyn C. Moore and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wesley’s historic questions have been asked of those considered for full connection (ordination) since as early as 1784, the first Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, presided over by Francis Asbury and Thomas Coke. The questions also have a broader Wesleyan context. Many of these questions were originally used with the people Wesley called “Helpers,” lay men and women to whom Wesley gave responsibility for leadership in the Methodist societies. They were class leaders, stewards, local preachers and travelling preachers. The questions addressed topics Wesley believed to be essential for persons responsible for leading others in discipleship and mission in the world. The nineteen questions cover topics from faith in Christ to spiritual practices to debt. The questions around commitment to the rules of the Church have a contemporary urgency in this season of division. Building from her blog on the 19 Questions, Are You Going On To Perfection, at www.artofholiness.com, Carolyn will thoughtfully unpack each question in a historical and personal way.
Download or read book Basic Christian Leadership written by John Stott and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leadership today is no easy task. Too often our models of leadership are shaped more by culture than by Christ. John Stott rejects popular models of leadership and holds up instead the servant leadership exemplified by Paul in his ministry to the church in Corinth. Stott reassures us that God is at work even in the midst of human weakness.
Download or read book The Wesleyan Way Leader Guide written by Bishop Scott J. Jones and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exciting and inspiring new study, Scott J. Jones helps seekers and believers to envision and practice discipleship as a way of life. Presenting Christianity from a Wesleyan perspective, Jones invites participants into a deeper, more thoughtful, more active commitment to Christ. This Leader Guide includes everything a group leader needs to plan and facilitate the 8 sessions, helping participants to explore what they have read, to view a 12-minute video, and to discuss the reading and video with the group. The guide walks leaders through the study format and provides options for tailoring sessions to the time-frame and style of each group.
Download or read book Formational Leadership written by Marcus K. Kilian and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the problem of toxic leadership in Christian contexts. Toxic leadership behaviors of narcissistic and obsessive-compulsive leaders will be emphasized. To counteract toxic Christian leadership, this book proposes a leadership development model, called formational leadership, which is based mostly on Wesleyan spirituality, but also includes monastic and Pentecostal spiritualities. Formational leadership is an eclectic leadership development model that includes components of transformational, authentic, and primal leadership approaches. Formational leadership emphasizes the spiritual, emotional, and ethical development processes in the leader and includes an analysis of orthokardia, orthodynamis, and orthopraxis. These components have a circular relationship with one another. Orthokardia includes the concepts of spiritual and emotional maturity that a Christian leader needs to develop in order to become an ethical and effective leader. Orthodynamis includes right power and influence motives based on Christian affections that should inform formational leadership. Orthopraxis refers to “right” and “just” leadership behaviors informed by Wesley’s social holiness and justice values that need to be adopted as organizational core values. The implications of these components for leadership development are outlined in chapters 4–6 that include practical steps for helping toxic leaders change their dysfunctional and harmful intentions and behaviors.
Download or read book The Starfish and the Spirit written by Lance Ford and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine an organizational model for church leadership that enables the entire team to unleash their full potential. The joy and vigor coming from a collective strength, intelligence, and skill in the community of leaders not only brings greater potency but better yields for your ministry. What would it be like to see this kind of healthy leadership reproduced into the second, third, and fourth generation, on multiple strands? Leveraging the metaphor Ori Brafman popularized in his NYT best-selling book, The Starfish and the Spider, Rob Wegner, Lance Ford, and Alan Hirsch show: How to take a close look at your church's organizational structure and how to adapt instead of simply adopt a certain kind of structural approach. How churches can function without a rigid central authority, making them nimbler in reacting to external forces. How seeding starfish networks inside today's churches will prepare the church of tomorrow to be agile while maintaining the accountability to be effective. The Starfish and the Spirit is about creating a culture where church leaders view themselves as curators of a community on a mission, not the source of certainty for every question and project. It's about creating a team of humble leaders "in the middle" of the church, not at the top--leaders who naturally reproduce multiple generations of leaders, from the middle out.
Download or read book Class Leaders written by Steven W. Manskar and published by Upper Room Books. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This course will explore the origins of the office of class leader in the Wesleyan Methodist tradition. It examines the need for recovering the lay pastoral ministry of the class leader for the twenty-first century church. Participants will see how the ministry of Certified Lay Servants intersects with that of the class leader. NOTE: Accountable Discipleship is a prerequisite to this course. Please note that the Participant's Guide for this, Class Leaders: Recovering a Tradition, by David Lowes Watson, is available through Cokesbury.
Download or read book Class Leaders written by David Lowes Watson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2002-04-30 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1988, The General Conference of the United Methodist Church restored class leaders and class meetings to the Book of Discipline after an absence of fifty years. In this volume, David Lowes Watson explains what the recovery of this tradition can mean for congregations, and offers some guidelines for the revitalized office of class leader. Adapting the later Methodist class meeting as a pastoral subdivision of the congregation, Watson shows how class leaders, under the supervision of the pastor, can nurture the discipline of other church members in light of a ÒGeneral Rule of DisciplineÓ derived from the early Methodist societies: ÒTo witness to Jesus Christ in the world, and to follow his teachings through acts of compassion, justice, worship, and devotion, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.Ó This volume is the second in a trilogy : Covenant Discipleship, Class Leaders, and Forming Christian Disciples.
