Feeding and Leading: A Practical Handbook on Administration in Churches and Christian Organizations

by Kenneth O. Gangel

Publisher:

Baker

, 1989

Overview

Every church and Christian organization has a leadership and administrative team. But how well is that team functioning? Feeding and Leading addresses this key component to effective ministry. Kenneth O. Gangel begins with the foundations of the administrative process and then focuses on the vocational Christian leader—pastor, president, principal, mission executive—targeting such issues as spiritual leadership, style, organization of work, goal setting, and long-range planning.

Feeding and Leading contains over forty figures that illustrate the practical principles outlined by the author. Self-evaluation questions, sample job descriptions, and other helpful tools for Christian administrators are also included.

Contents

• Foreword 9
• 1 Understanding Administrative Process
• 2 Functioning as a Spiritual Leader
• 3 Cultivating a Biblical Leadership Style
• 4 Organizing Yourself and Your Work
• 5 Setting and Achieving Goals
• 6 Short- and Long-Range Planning
• 7 Assessing Needs, Gifts, and Call
• 8 Recruiting Effective Volunteers
• 9 Changing People and Things
• 10 Motivating without Manipulating
• 11 Delegating Your Way to Survival
• 12 Making Good Team Decisions
• 13 Relating to People in Churches and Christian Organizations
• 14 Communicating-Leader to Leader
• 15 Working with People in Groups
• 16 Training for Godliness and Competence
• 17 Placing God’s Servants in God's Service
• 18 Chairing Business Meetings
• 19 Supervising and Evaluating Volunteers
• 20 Reproducing Leaders Who Reproduce

Praise for the Print Edition

I wish I could have read this book several years ago. It probably would have saved me a great deal of pain in a very important growing process in my own life.

—Paul Cedar

A careful, biblical reminder and practical help for the practitioner--be he pastor, parachurch executive, or church leader. The author helpfully takes widely accepted management/leadership/administrative principles and examines them under the microscope of God's Word.

—Ted W. Engstrom

Product Details

• Title: Feeding & Leading
• Author: Kenneth O. Gangel
• Publisher: Baker
• Print Publication Date: 1989
• Logos Release Date: 2023
• Pages: 336
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subject: Church administration
• ISBNs: 0801063310, 9780801063312
• Resource ID: LLS:FDNGLDNGRGNZTNS
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2023-08-10T23:14:03Z

About Kenneth O. Gangel

Kenneth O. Gangel (1935-2009) was one of the most influential Christian educators of the twentieth century. Dr. Gangel served as Dallas Theological Seminary as Chairman and Professor of Christian Education (1982-1992), Vice President for Academic Affairs, Academic Dean, and Senior Professor (1992-1997), and Distinguished Professor Emeritus (1998-2009). A leader of leaders Dr. Gangel authored or edited fifty-seven books. In retirement, he served as the Scholar-in-Residence for Toccoa Falls College, Toccoa, Georgia.