I’ve been making my way through Dan Allender’s Leading with a Limp. The book’s value has been upped by a series of small group discussion times I was invited to participate in, but even without the benefit of real-time, transparent conversations, this one is a must-read.
Here are a couple quotes I’ve been chewing on.
Being [...]
I read On the Old Testament earlier, and that was my intro to Mark Driscoll’s new series of Re:Lit “Books you’ll actually read.” Like the OT book, On Church Leadership runs about a hundred pages and can be read in about an hour.
A quick look at LibraryThing statistics revealed that, as I suspected, the Leadership [...]
After the repeated mention Spiritual Leadership got on Steve McCoy’s blog, I decided I’d better give Oswald Sanders‘ book a shot. I’m happy I did. Stuffed with references to heroic missionaries and Christian leaders of the 20th century, the book is a shotgun approach to the topic of leadership that does a good job showing [...]
Here’s the next installment in the Church Planting w/ Small Groups series.
________See also Intro, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 & Part 4, & Part 5_______
Multiply leaders and small groups regularly.
If a weakness of small groups is their tendency to become inward-focused, the contrasting strength is the potential to give participants numerous opportunities for discipleship [...]
N.T. Wright makes the point that all God’s people are called to pray but apostolic leaders more so than the rest. He derives this from the passage in Acts where Peter, James, John, etc., appointed new leaders so that they, the apostles, could devote themselves to prayer and the teaching of God’s word.
This makes perfect [...]
