Table of contents
Growing Your Church Through Training and Motivation
These books, originally published by Leadership Journal, offer deep dives on pressing issues of ministry and leadership from veteran ministry experts like Eugene Peterson, Fred Smith, Marshall Shelley, and others.
- Introduction
- 1 The Potential Around You
- 2 Working Through Leaders
- 3 Building Your All-Volunteer Army
- 4 Turning Pewsitters Into Players
- 5 Spotting a New Leader
- 6 Recruiting Volunteers
- 7 Recruitment’s Missing Link
- 8 When Is a Broken Person Ready to Lead?
- 10 Finding the Fit
- 11 The Care and Feeding of Leaders
- 12 Making Ministry Healthy
- 13 Turning Committees Into Community
- 14 How to Lead and Feed
- 15 Maintaining a Healthy Board Relationship
- 16 A Crash Course in Conflict
- 17 “A Kinder, Gentler Board Meeting”
- 18 Three Key Traits for Your Board
- 19 Bringing Out the Best in Your Board
- 20 Person-Centered Motivation
- 21 Kindling Their Vision
- 22 Keeping Leaders Aflame
- 23 The Manipulation Game
- 24 The Idea Behind Motivation
- 25 What Lights the Fire
- 26 The Preacher as Pitchman
- 27 Saving a Sinking Ship
- 28 Developing an Eager Church
- 29 Romancing the Congregation
- 30 Up to the Challenge
Ministry done by one is an overwhelming burden. No go-it-alone pastor or small set of laypeople can lead a church. And without unleashing the ministry skills of a whole congregation, your people miss the chance to find their place in the priesthood of all believers and attain the maturity God intends.
Growing Your Church Through Training and Motivation brings insight from highly effective pastors in a variety of settings, showing how church leadership can encourage and equip the whole church for the work of ministry. From recruiting volunteers to working with a board, this fourth volume in the Library of Leadership Development explores how you can most effectively equip and encourage your congregation. Now, in a never-before-collected lineup, are thirty chapters of expert advice from:
Leith Anderson
Daniel Brown
John Cheydleur
Don Cousins
Gary Fenton
Carl E. George
Richard C. Halverson
Jack Hayford
Roberta Hestenes
Ken Horton
David Hubbard
Joel C. Hunter
Bill Hybels
Wayne Jacobson
George Mallone
John Maxwell
Bob Moeller
Robert J. Morgan
Ron Oertli
Charles M. Olsen
Larry Osborne
Ben Patterson
Roy C. Price
Ruth Senter
Al Sibello
Fred Smith, Sr.
Roger Thompson
Rick Warren
Marlene Wilson