Grow more leaders for a greater harvest!  
  
What are the weeds that hinder the natural growth of godly leadership? Are programs, people, and money truly the signs of a successful church? Where can you find an unlimited source of leaders? How do you mentor leaders so that they multiply? In Organic Leadership Neil Cole asks these questions and more, boldly challenging many of the ideas about leadership and church life that we all take for granted. Then he reveals how to grow leaders that multiply naturally.  
  
 "It has been a very long time since I've read a book on leadership that moved me. Neil takes the person, the context, and God's Word, and mixes them in a powerful way for a life of leadership."--Bob Roberts Jr., senior pastor, Northwood Church; author, Transformation and Glocalization  
  
"Organic Leadership will trouble you--but more importantly, it will challenge you. And you should read it because the church could use some troubling and a new challenge."--Ed Stetzer, author and researcher   
  
"A prophetic call for a more discipleship-based, grassroots, and inspirational form of leadership in our time."--Alan Hirsch, author, The Forgotten Ways and ReJesus; co-founder, shapevine.com  
  
"Neil isn't afraid to examine presuppositions that can paralyze the church."--Dave Gibbons, author, The Monkey and the Fish  
  
"You will find insights and tools to help you and your church expand your kingdom reach."--Bob Buford, founder, Leadership Network; author, Halftime and Finishing Well   
  
  
Neil Cole is the founder and executive director of Church Multiplication Associates (www.cmaresources.org), which has catalyzed the start of thousands of churches around the world. He is an international speaker and the author of Organic Church and Search &amp; Rescue. He and his family live in California.

Neil Cole is the founder and executive director of Church Multiplication Associates, an organization that has helped catalyze the start of more than a thousand churches around the world. He is the author of Organic Church and Search &amp; Rescue.

Is it possible that the division between the clergy and the laity is unnecessary and, in fact, harmful to the church? In Organic Leadership, Neil Cole fervently says yes and shows how this causes great harm to all. But rather than doing away with the clergy, Cole argues that the answer is to raise up organically grown leaders from ordinary Christians and make everyone "a priest."  
Using examples from modern cinema, personal experience, and the Bible, Cole sets out to change our view of what a leader is and how one is formed. This fresh and revolutionary alternative will transform readers and equip them to challenge themselves and others to find the vision God has for them. Now available in trade paper.

This fresh look at how leaders are formed will equip readers to challenge themselves and others to find the vision God has for them.

Cole, Neil

COVER PAGE

TITLE PAGE

COPYRIGHT PAGE

DEDICATION

FOREWORD

PREFACE: LIVE THE ADVENTURE 

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 

INTRODUCTION: A FATE WORSE THAN FAILURE 

SECTION ONE: THE COUNTERFEIT KINGDOM OF OUTSIDE IN: WEEDS THAT INFILTRATE THE GARDEN OF CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP 

1. ON BEING INSTITUTIONALIZED: DEPENDING ON THE WALLS THAT IMPRISON YOU

2. SLAVES ARE MADE IN SUCH WAYS: THE CORRUPTION OF CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP

3. PHARISAISM TODAY: PROTECTING THE POWERFUL

4. STILL IN THE DARK AGES: CONTRIBUTING TO IGNORANCE IN THE NAME OF SCHOLARSHIP

5. BOUND BY THE CHAIN OF COMMAND: MESSED UP FROM TOP TO BOTTOM

6. VIEWING LIFE THROUGH FAULTY LENSES: FALSE DICHOTOMIES THAT OBSCURE OUR VISION OF REALITY

7. PARASITES ON THE BODY OF CHRIST: WHY SOME MINISTRIES SUCK . . . LITERALLY!

SECTION TWO: THE INSIDE-OUT KINGDOM: GROWING LEADERSHIP FROM WITHIN 

8. THE SECRET SOURCE OF LEADERS: OR, WHERE WE START MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE

9. ORGANICALLY GROWN LEADERS: HEALTHY LEADERSHIP EMERGENCE

10. LEADERSHIP SUCCESS: GOALS OF ORGANIC LEADERSHIP

SECTION THREE: THE UPSIDE-DOWN KINGDOM: NAVIGATING A CORRECT LEADERSHIP TRAJECTORY 

11. THE NEW "UP" IS "DOWN": THE PARADOXICAL KINGDOM

12. LEAD, FOLLOW, AND GET OUT OF THE WAY: AUTHORITY WORTH FOLLOWING

13. DOWNWARDLY MOBILE: FOLLOWING CHRIST TO HUMILITY AND EXALTATION

14. INCARNATIONAL LEADERSHIP: CHRIST'S LIFE IN YOU

SECTION FOUR: THE SIDE-BY-SIDE KINGDOM: RECIPES FOR HOMEGROWN LEADERSHIP 

15. KNOWLEDGE IS NOT POWER: HOLISTIC LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AND THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION

16. THE SECRET TO LEADING LEADERS: FOLLOWING A MIDDLE SCHOOL MASTER

17. WAX ON AND WAX OFF: LIFE-ON-LIFE MENTORING SKILLS

18. CATALYSTS FOR REAL CHANGE: LEADERSHIP TOOLS THAT MULTIPLY IMPACT

SECTION FIVE: THE PLUGGED-IN KINGDOM: THE LIFE, POWER, AND PROVISION IN GOD’S UPSIDE-DOWN KINGDOM 

19. EMBRACE DEATH AS IF YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT: THE CURE FOR ALL THAT AILS US

20. JESUS AND THE MAN-PURSE: PAYMENT FOR SERVICE IN THE CHURCH

CONCLUSION: RARE HEROES FOR A NEW DAY 

NOTES 

Is it possible that the division between the clergy and the laity is unnecessary and, in fact, harmful to the church? InOrganic Leadership, Neil Cole fervently says yes and shows how this causes great harm to all. But rather than doing away with the clergy, Cole argues that the answer is to raise up organically grown leaders from ordinary Christians and make everyone"a priest."  
Using examples from modern cinema, personal experience, and the Bible, Cole sets out to change our view of what a leader is and how one is formed. This fresh and revolutionary alternative will transform readers and equip them to challenge themselves and others to find the vision God has for them. Now available in trade paper.

Offers a fresh look at how leaders are formed and equips readers to challenge themselves and others to find the vision God has for them.

Is it possible that the division between the clergy and the laity is unnecessary and, in fact, harmful to the church? In "Organic Leadership," Neil Cole fervently says yes and shows how this causes great harm to all. But rather than doing away with the clergy, Cole argues that the answer is to raise up organically grown leaders from ordinary Christians and make everyone "a priest."  
Using examples from modern cinema, personal experience, and the Bible, Cole sets out to change our view of what a leader is and how one is formed. This fresh and revolutionary alternative will transform readers and equip them to challenge themselves and others to find the vision God has for them. Now available in trade paper.

Neil Cole is the founder and executive director of Church Multiplication Associates, an organization that has helped catalyse the start of more than a thousand churches around the world. He is the author of Organic Church and Search &amp; Rescue and lives in Long Beach, California.

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