Leading Your Church Through Conflict and Reconciliation

“The only pastors who don’t experience regular, character-building periods of conflict,” a pastor once said, “are either bullies who walk all over everyone or cowards afraid to stand up for what God wants to accomplish.” Church leaders are lightning rods, attracting the highly charged complaints and grievances of church members.

This first volume in the Library of Leadership Development helps pastors and lay leaders understand, prevent, and redeem conflict. Its authors who have survived and thrived in church conflict tell their stories and explain the principles that help them lead through the storms of congregational life. Now, in a never-before-collected lineup, are thirty chapters from:

Jim Amandus

LeRoy Armstrong

Stuart Briscoe

Daniel Brown

Donald Bubna

Andre Bustanoby

Edward Dobson

David Goetz

Jack Hayford

Bill Hybels

Doug Jackson

Wayne Jacobsen

Speed Leas

Kevin Miller

Bob Moeller

Larry Osborne

Ben Patterson

Michael Phillips

Douglas Rumford

Norman Shawchuck

Marshall Shelley

Fred Smith

Chuck Swindoll

R. Steven Warner

Charles Wellington