Lead: 12 Gospel Principles for Leadership in the Church
Overview
The church is experiencing a leadership crisis.
For every celebrity pastor exiting in the spotlight, there are hundreds of lesser-known pastors leaving in the shadows. Why are so many pastors leaving the ministry? Best-selling author Paul David Tripp suggests that lurking behind the failure of a pastor is a weak leadership community.
Turning to Scripture for guidance, Tripp presents readers with twelve leadership-community principles necessary for a gospel-centered leadership model. Here is a book with a message for those new to ministry as well as those experienced in it—God's abiding presence is your hope in leadership.
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- Addresses the current leadership crisis in the church
- Focuses on God’s abiding presence
- Presents twelve leadership-community principles necessary for a gospel-centered leadership model
- Introduction: Crisis
- Achievement
- Gospel
- Limits
- Balance
- Character
- War
- Servants
- Candor
- Identity
- Restoration
- Longevity
- Presence
Top Highlights
“Grace means we are not held to our worst moment or cursed by our worst decision. Grace means out of the ashes of sin, leaders can rise because the Savior has resurrection power.” (Page 28)
“If you take credit as a leader instead of assigning credit to the one who sent you and who alone produces fruit out of your labors, you will praise less, pray less, and plan more. Leadership communities are in trouble when they assign more power to their planning than to their prayer.” (Pages 45–46)
“True failure is always a character issue. It is rooted in laziness, pride, lack of discipline, self-excusing, failure to plan well, lack of joy in labor, and failure to persevere during hardship. Failure is not first a matter of results; failure is always first a matter of the heart. It’s failure when I have not invested my God-given time, energy, and gifts in the work God has called me to do. Ministry laziness and unfaithfulness are failure.” (Page 40)
“Our ministry passion and energies should be focused on doing everything we can to lead the people entrusted into our care into a deeper love for and service to Jesus so that everything we do serves this disciple-making purpose. When this central calling is replaced with institution building, potential disciples get turned into consumers.” (Page 43)
“But I have learned that the more I am bathing my heart in the wonder of God’s forgiveness of me, the more willing I am to forgive others.” (Page 64)
This book is the perfect complement to Tripp’s Dangerous Calling. The warning of ‘functional gospel amnesia’ captures so well why this book is needed. Leaders do not need more gimmicks. Leaders need more grace. They need more gospel.
—Daniel L. Akin, President, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
The strength of this book lies in the way Tripp shapes his treatment of leadership by two things: his understanding of the gospel, and his grasp of the organic nature of the local church. At one level, this is an easy read; at another level, it is sometimes probing and painful.
—D. A. Carson, Theologian-at-Large, The Gospel Coalition
Tripp’s books have been some of the most influential books in my life. Lead is no exception! You will find within the pages of this book practical, gospel-centered help as you lead and serve others.
—Jennie Allen, New York Times best-selling author, Get Out of Your Head; Founder, IF:Gathering
- Title: Lead: 12 Gospel Principles for Leadership in the Church
- Author: Paul Tripp
- Publisher: Crossway
- Print Publication Date: 2020
- Logos Release Date: 2020
- Pages: 231
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subject: Christian leadership
- ISBNs: 9781433567636, 9781433567667, 9781433567643, 9781433567650, 1433567636, 1433567660, 1433567644, 1433567652
- Resource ID: LLS:LEAD
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-02-03T18:50:07Z
Paul David Tripp is a pastor, author, and international conference speaker. He is the president of Paul Tripp Ministries and works to connect the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life. This vision has led Paul to write 14 books on Christian living and travel around the world preaching and teaching. Paul's driving passion is to help people understand how the gospel of Jesus Christ speaks with practical hope into all the things people face in this broken world.
