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    The Gift: How your leadership can serve your church
    The Gift: How your leadership can serve your church
    The Gift: How your leadership can serve your church
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    The Gift: How your leadership can serve your church

    By Chris Green

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    Pastors face two temptations when they consider church leadership: one, common in more culturally conservative churches, is simply to preach faithfully and assume that that alone is adequate Christian leadership; the other, common in more culturally contemporary churches, is to apply secular business wisdom, but uncritically. The books published mirror the two camps.

    Both drive a wedge between the Bible and leadership.

    What if the gift of leadership was a clear outworking of biblical teaching? What if there is in the Bible a consistent pattern of human communities flourishing under the good rule of God's Word.

    Drawing on years of teaching and ministry, Chris Green shows us how, as Mike Ovey put it, Christian leaders can be God's best possible gift to flourishing communities.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIVP
    Release dateAug 19, 2021
    ISBN9781789743531
    The Gift: How your leadership can serve your church
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    Chris Green

    Chris Green is vice principal at Oak Hill Theological College in London. He has worked in three churches in the London area and taught frequently at the Cornhill Training Course and he contributes to Oak Hill's biblical studies programm. He has published commentaries on 2 Peter, Jude and 2 Timothy and edited a book on preaching. Chris is married with two sons and enjoys music, reading and watercolor painting.

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