Leading with Story: Cultivating Christ-centered Leaders in a Storycentric Generation
Ebook
Cultivating Christ-Centered Leaders in a Storycentric Generation
Eighty percent of the world’s people—including seventy percent of Americans—are storycentric communicators; that is, they prefer to learn and are most likely to be influenced through stories, pictures, drama, and music rather than through reading and writing. Yet more than ninety percent of Christian workers communicate through a highly literacy-based approach. This disconnect overlooks a primary method of Jesus himself in the preparation of leaders and impedes the effective cultivation of leaders in the growing global church.
Through engaging stories, biblical insights, leadership research, field-tested methods, and practical models of effective leadership development, Leading with Story offers unique solutions that will inspire and challenge any who want to raise up or to be raised up as Christ-centered leaders in this storycentric generation.
Foreword by David Denmark
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: Storycentric Learning
1. The Power of Story
2. Literacy and Story
3. Story as A Guide To
Part Two: Leadership Development
4. In Search of Leadership
5. The Scope of Leadership Development
6. The Process of Leadership Development
Part Three: Christ-Centered Leadership
7. Leadership Matters
8. Leadership Reformation
9. Leading with A Long View
10. Leading with Virtue
11. Leading Others toward Their Potential
12. Christ-Centered Leadership Applied
Part Four: The Garden Project
13. The Garden Project: Our Journey
Conclusion
Endnotes
References
Index
This re-centering by Sessoms on story and narrative has such wide-ranging effectiveness because it is grounded in Jesus’ own methods of gospel proclamation and leadership development. The one Person who is uniquely “the Truth” is the best source for universal ministry principles across time and culture and for effective witness in His name.
-David Denmark, executive director, The Maclellan Foundation, Inc.
Rick has the key to unlock a new level of communicating biblical ideals, and he provides the solid tools to make it a leadership lifestyle.
-Roger Parrott, president, Belhaven University
- Title: Leading with Story: Cultivating Christ-centered Leaders in a Storycentric Generation
- Authors: Rick Sessoms, Tim Brannagan
- Publisher: William Carey Library
- Print Publication Date: 2016
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781645080770, 9780878085309, 0878085300, 1645080773
- Resource ID: LLS:9781645080770
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-07-19T00:49:46Z
Rick Sessoms is founder and president of Freedom to Lead International. He has been a missionary, pastor, and educator, and has coached leaders and provided consultation for ministry organizations throughout the Americas, Africa, Europe, North Asia, South Asia, and Oceania. He has an MDiv, a DMin, and a PhD in organizational leadership. He formerly served as chair of the Lausanne Leadership Development Working Group. Rick and his wife, Tina, have two grown children.
Tim Brannagan has been a missionary, A Bible college dean, a seminary professor, and a local church pastor. With an MA in theological studies, an MDiv, and a PhD in education, his life and ministry emphasize mentoring in conjunction with adult education throughout Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Tim and his wife, Nancy, have two grown children.