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Intentional leaders know that team leadership is not a lone ranger proposition. While leadership is certainly a specialized role, it serves best in conjunction and context with others – the body of Christ principle. It’s not a healthy approach to think of yourself as the lone ranger way out ahead of your team, though it’s easy to slide into this mentality. The best leaders bring the team along with them, share the load, and pull together according to who does what best. … You are not set up for true maturity in leadership until you’ve developed a strong and healthy answer … [to these two questions]. |
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BOOK REVIEW Ultimately Responsible: When You’re in Charge of Igniting a Ministry Ultimately Responsible contains plenty of practical advice on how to jumpstart tired programs and engage church members in meaningful ministry. Sue Nilson Kibbey, executive pastor of Ginghamsburg Church in Tipp City, Ohio, outlines a comprehensive system for ministry development that begins with analysis of the essential components of individual leadership and goes on to discuss nurturing deepening levels of commitment among church goers, building and leading teams, and navigating change. Along the way there are pointers on creating easy “entry ramps” for newcomers and assessing readiness for leadership, on decision making and accountability networks, on redirecting ineffective servants as well as hiring and supervising staff. |
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Editors: Lovett H. Weems, Jr. and Ann A. Michel Copyright © 2007 by the G. Douglass Lewis Center for Church Leadership. Leading Ideas material may be freely distributed with attribution (exclusive of material protected by separate copyright). |
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