One of the greatest myths of leadership is that you must be in charge in order to lead. Because every road of leadership forks at the intersection of authority and influence, learning to cultivate influence without authority is foundational to navigate culture today.

Discover the prayer practice of ministry leaders-and transform your life and your leadership.

Even the most experienced leaders seek outside help-they pray. Looking for help in their own leadership, entrepreneur Ryan Skoog, CEO Peter Greer, and executive advisor Cameron Doolittle set out to investigate how established leaders pray.

In this book, the authors share the spiritual habits, techniques, and practices of world-changing leaders. In addition, they include prayers for leaders to use in their own prayer time as well as tools for how to cultivate a personal and organizational commitment to prayer.

By allowing these men and women to lead us in prayer, we learn not only how to pray, but how to build a culture of prayer wherever we lead. It is only when our businesses, ministries, and churches pray that they will be transformed.

The greatest myth of leadership is that you must be in charge in order to lead.

Great leaders aren't paralyzed by not being in a position of recognized authority. Great leaders lead with or without that authority and learn to unleash their positive influence wherever they are.

In this six-session, video-based study (DVD/streaming video sold separately), dynamic author and pastor Clay Scroggins shares his first-hand experience working under Andy Stanley at North Point Community Church. He explains the nature of leadership and what it takes to lead yourself and others well with or without that impressive title.

In this study you will:

• Learn to leverage influence instead of authority
• Create a game plan for leading yourself well
• Change the energy of your team by choosing positivity
• Cultivate influence by thinking critically, not being critical
• Avoid the trap of passivity when you feel out of control
• Learn an effective way to challenge people in authority over you

How to Lead When You're Not in Charge Study Guide will free you to become the great leader you want to be so you can make a difference right where you are--whether it's in your workplace, community, or church. Even when you're not in charge.

Sessions include:

1. The Oddity of Leadership
2. Lead Yourself
3. Choose Positivity
4. Think Critically
5. Reject Passivity
6. Challenging Up

Designed for use with the How to Lead When You're Not in Charge Video Study 9780310095934 (sold separately).

From cultural critic and social impact leader Alencia Johnson comes Flip the Tables--a guide for everyday disruptors ready to find their courage, shake up the status quo, and create a better world from exactly where they are.

We all crave lives of meaning and purpose but figuring out how to start can feel overwhelming. The truth? Your unique gifts and perspectives are needed--right now. It just takes a little courage to tap into them.

In Flip the Tables, Alencia guides readers through three key stages of disruption:

• Disruption of Self - Break down barriers and confront the fears that hold you back from stepping into your boldest, most authentic self.
• Disruption of Vision - Radically reimagine what's possible for your life and the world around you.
• Disruption of Community - Use your courage and fresh vision to make an impact--becoming the light needed in a dark world.

Flip the Tables is the playbook for those who want to create change--right where they are. Full of personal stories, real-world examples, and actionable tools, this guide helps readers ignite transformation by starting with their own lives.

Alencia draws from her experiences--overcoming insecurities, fighting for women's rights, and advising top leaders and four presidential campaigns. Through behind-the-scenes insights and inspiring movements, she shows readers how to live with purpose, joy, and the belief that greatness lies within.

Because the world doesn't just need disruptors--it needs you.

Are you hungry to help others through leadership but don't feel like you have the authority?

If you're ready to lead right where you are, this book can show you how to start. - Dave Ramsey, #1 National bestselling author and host of The Ramsey Show.

One of the greatest myths of leadership is that you must be in charge in order to lead. Great leaders don't buy it. Great leaders--whether they have the official authority or not--learn how to be an influential presence wherever they are.

In How to Lead When You're Not in Charge, author and pastor Clay Scroggins explains the nature of leadership and what's needed to be a great leader--even when you answer to someone else.

Drawing from biblical principles and his experience as the lead pastor of Buckhead Church in Atlanta, Georgia, Clay will help you nurture your vision and cultivate influence with integrity and confidence, even when you lack authority in your organization or ministry.

In this book, Clay will walk you through the challenge of leadership and the four basic behaviors all great leaders have and how to cultivate them:

• Leading yourself
• Choosing positivity
• Thinking critically
• Rejecting passivity

With practical wisdom and humor, Clay Scroggins will help you free yourself to become the great leader you want to be so you can make a difference. Even when you're not in charge.

Learn to Lead Like Jesus

Jesus stands in history as the master leader--and he calls us to follow him in leadership. But what exactly makes Christian leadership unique? Mark E. Moore, with fellow leader Jeff Osborne, unpacks what is essential: key leadership strategies based on the life of Jesus.

The Master Leader offers biblical guidance and practical advice to lead your team like Jesus led those around him. You will learn to possess the values of Jesus, beginning with integrity and other key attributes, including servanthood, stewardship, and adaptability. You will also understand the actions of Jesus, like how to build culture, cast vision, and mentor leaders. These pages will raise your leadership level.

The best leadership training comes from Christ, and this book is the guide for leaders in any role of society.

20-25% of Americans suffer from a diagnosable mental illness. Divorce is epidemic. Abuse of all kinds is rampant. Suicidality is at an all-time high. Domestic violence is out of control. Cohabitation and out of wedlock births are at unprecedented levels. Addictions are more widespread than ever.

These and many other problems confront our culture today in alarming proportions. Consequently, mental and relational health issues find their way home. To everyone's home.

People with these and other concerns typically turn first to the church for help. Yet most churches are not equipped to adequately minister to the depth and magnitude of these overwhelming problems. This book was created as a comprehensive resource to provide the church with practical tools to care for these hurting people in a biblically sound and emotionally healthy way.

We at the American Association of Christian Counselors hope and pray this book finds its way into the hands of every pastor, church leader, counselor, and Christian caregiver in America. Because the struggle is real. The struggle is real indeed.

This is a lineup of experienced healers and caring writers. It will be a valuable resource for the field of mental and emotional health for years to come.

John Ortberg, Ph.D., Senior Pastor of Menlo Church, Menlo Park, CA,

Clinical Psychologist and best-selling author

People everywhere are hurting, including those inside the church. Written by a team of experts, this important resource is designed to shine the wonderful and liberating light of the gospel into the dark and difficult areas of people's lives. What's here will heal. You need this book and the people you love need it too.

Johnnie Moore, Founder, The KAIROS Company

People today are struggling in ways that only the church can help. The Struggle is Real is an excellent resource for equipping ministry leaders and counselors alike to meet this most pressing need.

Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference

I heartily recommend The Struggle Is Real...Clinton and Pingleton have provided exactly what the church needs.

Jeremiah J. Johnston, Ph.D., President, Christian Thinkers Society,

Professor, Houston Baptist University

We are not fine; the people we serve are not fine-we all struggle This book is an invaluable resource for helping us minister to people who need our understanding.

Greg Surratt, Founding Pastor, Seacoast Church, Mount Pleasant, SC,

President, Association of Related Churches (ARC)

In this book, Tim Clinton and Jared Pingleton provide a solid guide to better understand the issues and dynamics of trouble that people experience and how to effectively minister to them.

George O. Wood, P.Th.D., J.D., former General Superintendent, The General Council of the Assemblies of God

Leadership by the Good Book will inspire, empower, and equip men and women to lead their businesses, their teams, their ministries, and even their families to greater heights and to have an eternal impact.
For David L. Steward, founder and chairman of World Wide Technology, his philosophy for building a successful business is simple and founded on a Biblical principle: For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve (Mark 10:45 NIV). As a business leader, he says, the first priority is to serve employees.
Together with Brandon K. Mann, these two leaders distill their wisdom in this field guide for leaders who want to bring respect, integrity, honesty, and trust to the workplace. Steward and Mann draw from personal experiences as well as share insights and examples of how God's Word has informed and influenced their leadership. Each chapter ends with a section titled Your Leadership Flywheel: Learn, Live, Lead, Legacy, which includes self-reflection questions, application of biblical principles, as well as a prayer.

Existen ciertos asuntos de doctrina que los cristianos tienen que conocer.

La teología es importante porque lo que creemos afecta cómo vivimos. Si usted es un nuevo creyente de Jesús o un cristiano más maduro que busca un repaso rápido de los aspectos de la fe, Creencias Cristianas. Esta guía fácil de leer, con veinte creencias básicas cristianas, es una condensación del premiado libro de Wayne Grudem sobre teología sistemática, reconocido por pastores y maestros alrededor del mundo.

Christian Doctrines

There are certain areas of doctrine that every Christian simply must know.

Theology is important because what we believe affects how we live. If you're a relatively new believer in Jesus, or if you're a more mature Christian looking for a quick brush-up on basics of the faith, Christian Beliefs is for you. This readable guide to twenty basic Christian beliefs is a condensation of Wayne Grudem's award-wininng book on systematic theology, prized by pastors and teachers everywhere.

Revival begins with God, but it's lived out through us. James Choung and Ryan Pfeiffer have seen revival in their own ministries, with remarkable transformation in both individuals and communities. They unpack what revival looks like, how Christians can anticipate it, and how they can experience it, providing a model of revival leadership for Christians who want to facilitate and spread revival in their contexts.

God has always taught his people the biggest lessons of life through a variety of ways. Farming has become one of the ways God has used to teach this unlikely farmer some of life's most important lessons. Through a series of unexpected events, God decided to take a pastor and place him in the pasture. While in the pasture, this pastor had to learn to care for animals. He had to learn how to make hay. While he was learning how to farm, ultimately, he was learning something so much more valuable; he was learning about life. While this pastor was in the pasture, he learned about trust, worry, relationships, failure, and patience. Who knew you could learn so much from sheep, goats, and peacocks?

This book is not a how-to book for farmers; it is more like a how-not-to-farm book. Rather, this book is a collection of the stories and experiences, many failures, and few successes that I have had as a pastor while starting a farm. Behind each and every story is a lesson that God wants his people to learn. So for the past several years, I have taken the lessons learned in the pasture and shared them from the pulpit in my church. Now I want to share those lessons with you. I hope that you will follow along with the pastor in the pasture and see what God wants to teach you.

Celebration is an important component of preaching. Fifteen years, after its release, They Like to Never Quit Praising God continues to illustrate the steps that are essential to understand and experience the Gospel through celebration and praise.

Through the unique lens of African American preaching, Thomas explores the theology, dynamics and guidelines for celebrative preaching.

Discover the prayer practice of ministry leaders-and transform your life and your leadership.

Even the most experienced leaders seek outside help-they pray. Looking for help in their own leadership, entrepreneur Ryan Skoog, CEO Peter Greer, and executive advisor Cameron Doolittle set out to investigate how established leaders pray.

In this book, the authors share the spiritual habits, techniques, and practices of world-changing leaders. In addition, they include prayers for leaders to use in their own prayer time as well as tools for how to cultivate a personal and organizational commitment to prayer.

By allowing these men and women to lead us in prayer, we learn not only how to pray, but how to build a culture of prayer wherever we lead. It is only when our businesses, ministries, and churches pray that they will be transformed.

Put your flawed foot forward.

Pick up most leadership books and you'll find strategies for leveraging your power and minimizing your areas of weakness. But rather than work against your weakness, why not draw from a deeper well of strength? God favors leaders who make the most of the power that comes from brokenness.

Go ahead and take full advantage of your flaws. The most effective leaders don't rise to power in spite of their weakness; they lead with power because of their weakness. It is their authenticity in limping leadership that compels others to follow them. Flawed leaders are successful because they're not preoccupied with protecting their image. They are undaunted by chaos and complexity. And they are ready to risk failure in moving an organization from what is to what should be.

If you are a leader-or if you have been making excuses to avoid leading-find out how to get the most from your weakness. A limping leader is the kind of person God uses to accomplish amazing things.

To go deeper, check out the Leading with a Limp Workbook.

Paul and Barnabas made a decisive move toward the end of the first missionary journey: they appointed elders in the churches they had established, entrusting them with responsibility to shepherd the young congregations. The need for faithful shepherding has not changed since that time, yet the leadership structure of most churches no longer follows this model. The authors argue that a return to the New Testament pattern of elder plurality best serves the shepherding needs in a local church.

The authors suggest a workable process for improving a local church's leadership structure and making the transition to elder plurality. Along the way, the stories of the authors and other church leaders provide a narrative of how faithful elder leadership has strengthened their ministries. The book also addresses a plan for leadership development in difficult international mission settings. Church leaders will find this a useful resource for building a healthy leadership structure.

This book is an extensive revision of the previously-published Elders in Congregational Life, including updates throughout, additional illustrations, and a new chapter addressing how missionaries may effectively apply the New Testament's teaching on elder plurality. 9Marks is a well-known ministry organization dedicated to equipping church leaders with a biblical vision and practical resources.

A practical guide to help you build a culture in your church or organization that resists abuse and cultivates goodness.

After the release of their groundbreaking book, A Church Called Tov, which recorded the stories of abuse and toxic church cultures at some of the most prominent churches in the United States, New Testament scholar and blogger for Christianity Today Scot McKnight and Laura Barringer heard from a flood of people who had experienced similar instances of abuse. After all they've seen and heard, they still believe it's possible for church cultures to be transformed from toxic to tov--from oppressive to good.

In Pivot, Scot and Laura help churches to implement practices, establish priorities, and cultivate the Kingdom Gospel-centered qualities that form goodness cultures. Readers will find answers to the four most common questions people have about culture transformation:

1. How can I transform the culture in my church or organization to make it tov?
2. I believe my workplace has unhealthy values. How do I initiate change?
3. How do I unleash a culture of goodness in my ministry?
4. I'm not in a position of church leadership. What are some red flags that indicate a toxic culture, and what can I do if I see them?

Pivot also includes the following practical features:

• The Tov tool, a survey to help you discern your organization's culture and to promote spiritual conversations
• A getting to work section at the end of each chapter with questions and next steps for application

Transformation is never easy. But for the sake of the next generation, we must do it.

Should a woman be allowed to lead a church? From hushed conversations to national board rooms, this question is hotly debated in churches across North America.
Michelle Felice left her profession in the medical field, returned to school to attain a master's degree, and started a new career as a pastor. This fifteen-year journey took her from director of children's ministry to associate pastor and interim lead pastor. Then an unexpected series of events put her in a position that she had not anticipated-the opportunity to apply for the role of lead pastor.
Experienced. Personable. Trusted. Pastor Michelle possessed everything she needed to do the job, including twenty-three years of relationships built with the church members. It seemed natural to many people that her application would be encouraged, and she be considered a strong candidate . . . until someone read the fine print.
Throw Another Pebble on the Pile: One Woman's Leadership Journey in the Church is an empowering and thought-provoking book that will further the dialogue about this important question. It is a story that will create conversation concerning female leadership in the church, prompt critical thinking, and explore the roadblocks on the path to egalitarianism in the Christian church.