The key to effective leadership in today's churches lies as much with their governing boards as it does with their pastors.   
  
Many churches are led by volunteers who chair committees yet have little or no leadership training. Is it possible for well-meaning but often ill-prepared laypeople to guide a church body into Christ-honoring ministry?  
  
The answer is yes, and the secret lies in offering church leaders effective, practical training. In Leading Leaders Aubrey Malphurs provides workable strategies to train laypeople to successfully lead their churches. Covering such concerns as "Who is really leading the church?" and "What do church boards do?" this book provides not only practical evaluation tools, but a plan for developing a church board that can accomplish defined and vital goals.  
  
Including fourteen appendices and helpful questionnaires, Leading Leaders builds on the well-received Being Leaders and Building Leaders. It is a practical guide to creating and maintaining a dynamic and effective church leadership team that is spiritually equipped and properly trained to lead the local body of Christ.  
  
Aubrey Malphurs is professor of pastoral ministries at Dallas Theological Seminary. A nationally recognized expert on leadership issues, he is the author of more than fifteen books and the president of the Malphurs Group (www.malphursgroup.com), a training and consulting organization.

Aubrey Malphurs is professor of pastoral ministries at Dallas Theological Seminary. He is also the author of over a dozen books, as well as president of the Malphurs Group, a church-consulting firm. He lives in Dallas, Texas.

The key to effective leadership in the vast majority of today's churches lies as much with their governing boards as it does with their pastor. But many churches are lead by those who volunteer to chair committees because there is a need, yet they have no leadership training to speak of. How can well-meaning but sometimes ill-prepared lay people guide the path of a church body?  
The secret lies in offering effective, practical training. Leadership expert Aubrey Malphurs provides this in Leading Leaders. Filling a gaping hole in leadership literature, Malphurs offers workable strategies to train laypeople to successfully lead their churches.

From the respected author of many church leadership books comes a practical guide to creating and maintaining leadership that is spiritually equipped and properly trained to lead the local Body of Christ.

Malphurs, Aubrey

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INTRODUCTION

1. WHO IS LEADING THE CHURCHES?: OBSERVATIONS OF BOARD LEADERSHIP 

2. THE GOVERNING BOARD: A DEFINITION OF BOARD LEADERSHIP 

3. WHY HAVE A GOVERNING BOARD?: RATIONALE FOR BOARD LEADERSHIP 

4. BOARD ACCOUNTABILITY

5. BOARD COMPOSITION

6. THE SPIRITUALLY HEALTHY BOARD: CHARACTERISTICS OF BOARD LEADERSHIP 

7. THE EFFECTIVE BOARD: FUNCTIONS OF BOARD LEADERSHIP 

8. THE POLICIES APPROACH TO GOVERNANCE: OPERATIONS OF BOARD LEADERSHIP 

9. BOARD POLICIES: AREAS FOR BOARD LEADERSHIP 

10. BOARD MEETINGS

11. IMPLEMENTING A POLICIES APPROACH

12. IMPROVING BOARD EFFECTIVENESS: TRAINING BOARD LEADERSHIP 

APPENDIX A: GOVERNING BOARD AUDIT

APPENDIX B: THE ROLE OF A BOARD MEMBER’S SPOUSE

APPENDIX C: POLICIES GOVERNING THE BOARD: THE BOARD’S FUNCTION 

APPENDIX D: POLICIES GOVERNING THE SENIOR PASTOR: THE SENIOR PASTOR’S FUNCTION 

APPENDIX E: POLICIES GOVERNING THE BOARD–SENIOR PASTOR RELATIONSHIP

APPENDIX F: MISSION STATEMENT: ENDS POLICIES 

APPENDIX G: MEN’S CHARACTER ASSESSMENT FOR LEADERSHIP 

APPENDIX H: WOMEN’S CHARACTER ASSESSMENT FOR LEADERSHIP

APPENDIX I: BOARD MEMBER COVENANT

APPENDIX J: THE CHURCH AND POWER: INDIVIDUAL AND CORPORATE POWER 

APPENDIX K: SKILLMAN BIBLE CHURCH GOVERNANCE POLICY

APPENDIX L: LAKE POINTE CHURCH POLICIES

APPENDIX M: BOARD POLICIES: LANCASTER COUNTY BIBLE CHURCH 

APPENDIX N: ELDER BOARD POLICY MANUAL

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SOURCES

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The key to effective leadership in the majority of churches lies as much with their governing boards as it does with their pastor. But many churches are lead by those who volunteer to chair committees because there is a need, yet they have no leadership training to speak of. This book offers workable strategies to train laypeople to lead churches.

The key to effective leadership in the vast majority of today's churches lies as much with their governing boards as it does with their pastor. But many churches are lead by those who volunteer to chair committees because there is a need, yet they have no leadership training to speak of. How can well-meaning but sometimes ill-prepared lay people guide the path of a church body? The secret lies in offering effective, practical training. Leadership expert Aubrey Malphurs provides this in "Leading Leaders". Filling a gaping hole in leadership literature, Malphurs offers workable strategies to train laypeople to successfully lead their churches.

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