Shepherding the Church: Effective Spiritual Leadership in a Changing Culture
Overview
We live in a most challenging time in history, when leading has never been tougher. Joe Stowell charts the course biblically to enable shepherds to do the best of things in the worst of times.
How do we lead effectively in this changing generation? By focusing on timeless targets, such as character, effective proclamation, spiritual giftedness, and spiritual growth.
As a third-generation minister who has pastored churches in Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, Dr. Stowell speaks from experience in his trademark heart-to-heart style. In Shepherding the Church he ministers to ministers who are longing for a word of encouragement.
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Top Highlights
“faith is an unshaken confidence that what we believe about God and His Word is true” (Page 207)
“Privatism leads to religious lives that are compartmentalized, in which God occupies several unrelated and often isolated segments of our lives but not all segments. It gives us permission to set up other compartments where no one, including God, has the right to enter.” (Page 29)
“effective proclaimer—one who effectively communicates the truth of God to the spiritual needs and hunger of His people.” (Page 114)
“can love them regardless of their treatment of me, not because they deserve it but rather because Christ deserves it” (Page 191)
“ In fact, when form is modeled it is never as a static entity, but fluid, given the environment.” (Page 40)
Joe Stowell’s analysis of leadership is profoundly biblical and practical and thus properly radical. A splendid book; a must read.
—R. Kent Hughes, College Church, Wheaton, Illinois
- Title: Shepherding the Church: Effective Spiritual Leadership in a Changing Culture
- Author: Joseph M. Stowell
- Publisher: Moody Publishers
- Series: Moody Church Leadership Collection
- Publication Date: 1997
- Pages: 336