Product Description

How does a Christian lead? By following today's secular business models, or by simply studying the life of Christ and pursuing a servant-based style? In this insightful, practical book, George Barna has pulled together some of today's top Christian leaders to talk about the subject of Christian leadership. Articles include: The Tasks of a Leader by Ken Gangel, The Character of a Leader by Jack Hayford, Prayer in Leading People by Peter Wagner, and much more. See what today's leaders have to say about leadership, and learn what it takes to serve the Church as a Christ-centered change agent.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #273165 in Books
• Published on: 1997-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 324 pages

About the Author
George Barna is the founder and Directing Leader of the Barna Research Group Ltd., a marketing research firm located in Ventura, California. Since 1984, the company has provided research and assistance to thousands of churches, parachurch ministries, non-profit organization and for-profit businesses. An award-winning author of more than 30 books, his work includes best-sellers such as The Frog in the Kettle, User Friendly Churches, Evangelism That Works, and A Fish Out of Water.He lives with his wife, Nancy, and their daughters, Samantha and Corban, in Southern California.

Customer Reviews

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Everything was good with the book. Just marks in the book from the previous owner.

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This book was fantastic on the subject matter covered. It explains thoroughly how to plant churches by the 3 basic models and how to help them grow, and how to effectively contribute to already existing churches, as well as full scale churches. Very essential information is presented for anyone who wants to futher the kingdom of God in any way.

Encouraging Words for Those Who are in the Trenches!
The contributors are people who are widely recognized in ministry. Some are professors, others are pastors, and others still are consultants. The goal of this volume was to challenge leaders to become better at the art of leading. The authors are evangelicals representing a wide variety of views within evangelicalism. Barna is certainly known for his previous works on church growth and trends in America.

The uniqueness of this book is probably the honesty with which the contributors make their points. It felt more like a personal interview with many of them. They did a good job at getting to the heart of the matter. So often leadership books are trite or boring. Many authors of such books seem to know-it-all. I seldom felt that way while reading this book. The contributors seemed to have a genuine interest in helping the reader to become all that God wants him/her to be.

Paul Heier, author of Leading Out of Love