Growing Your Church through Training and Motivation
Overview
Ministry done by one is an overwhelming burden. No go-it-alone pastor or small set of laypeople can lead a church. And without unleashing the ministry skill of a whole congregation, your people miss the chance to find their place in the priesthood of all believers and attain the maturity God intends.
Growing Your Church Through Training and Motivation brings insight from highly effective pastors in a variety of settings, showing how church leadership can encourage and equip the whole church for the work of ministry. From recruiting volunteers to working with a board, this fourth volume in the Library of Leadership Development explores how you can most effectively equip and encourage your congregation. Now, in a never-before-collected lineup, are thirty chapters of expert advice.
Top Highlights
“If you pray for leaders, if you have a heart to develop, lead, and empower people, and if you’ve got a God-given vision, God will give you your heart’s desires.” (Page 23)
“When we embrace people and pour our lives into them, they’ll sometimes hurt us. But the future of our ministry and our churches depends on developing others to lead.” (Page 15)
“The number-one leadership criterion is strength of character. This cannot be compromised.” (Page 30)
“Loyalty is the result of respect. You won’t be loyal to a person you don’t respect. In my dad’s day, the pastor got loyalty because he was the pastor. These days, people will not be loyal to anyone unless they respect the person and know the leader respects them. People give loyalty when they can say, ‘I’m a better person because of that leader.’” (Page 21)
“To effectively promote spirituality one must practice spirituality.” (Page 33)
- Title: Growing Your Church through Training and Motivation: 30 Strategies to Transform Your Ministry
- Author: Marshall Shelley
- Series: Library of Leadership Development
- Volume: 4
- Publisher: Bethany House
- Print Publication Date: 1997
- Logos Release Date: 2001
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Christian leadership; Church growth; Pastoral theology; Handbooks
- Resource ID: LLS:34.0.42
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T16:33:44Z
Marshall Shelley is editor-in-chief of Leadership Journal and editorial vice president of Christianity Today International (CTI). Shelley studied journalism at Bethel University and earned a Master of Divinity in theology from Denver Seminary where he subsequently served as a board member for nearly a decade. He has also studied at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and Wheaton College Graduate School, served as a board member for the American Tract Society, and held pastoral staff positions in his hometown of Denver, Colorado.
Marshall joined CTI after developing his journalistic skills at David C. Cook Publishing Company and The Denver Post. He is the author of several books including Well-Intentioned Dragons, several volumes in the Fresh Ideas series, the Library of Leadership Development, and the Library of Christian Leadership. He also served as general editor of The Quest Study Bible.
Shelley and his wife, Susan, live in Wheaton, Illinois, and have five children, two sons-in-law, and two grandchildren.