Leaders Today: Principles of Effective Leadership

By PJ Edmund Sr

It is my philosophy that the gift of leadership is embedded in every believer. Each gift will manifest in its season

PJ EDMUND, Sr. in his well received book, Leaders Today Principles of Effective Leadership, reveals that every Christian leader has tremendous contributions to ministry. The success for future generations depends largely on forward thinking pastors taking responsibility to train and raise up successors. PJ Edmund presents the keys to developing effectiveness in leadership preparation. The Principles of Effective Leadership speaks to the heart of what makes a Christian leader excel in challenging and changing times. To say the least ministry laden with levels of pressure, stress and unpredictability. One of the ways to stay current and ahead of the ever changing leadership challenges is to invest in training and development.

You will learn: How to cultivate the passion to improve your leadership gift. How to develop and work together as a dynamic ministry team. How to understand the benefits of transformational training.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 7, 2011
• ISBN: 9781469133331

PJ Edmund Sr

PJ Edmund, Sr., is a graduate of Cornerstone Christian University and Seminary. He has served for the past 10 years as the Senior Pastor of Timbrel Church International in Largo, Maryland, and now the Overseer for Pneuma Fellowship of Covenant Churches of the Apostolic Faith, Inc., an association of independent churches and pastors. Through the work of the Centre for Leadership Arete (Excellence) and the Leaders Today Conferences the ministries provides training and development conferences that equip, train, develop and prepare dynamic ministry leaders. PJ has also authored Walk With Him (Managing Your Call to Ministry), and Leaders Today (Principles of Effective Leadership) and has inspired thousands of believers to strive for excellence in ministry.

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© 2012 by PJ EDMUND, Sr.,.

ISBN:           Softcover        978-1-4691-3332-4

                     Ebook              978-1-4691-3333-1

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Contents

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1     What is the Need?

CHAPTER 2     Why Train, Why develop Leaders?

CHAPTER 3     Description or Definition

CHAPTER 4     Principles

CHAPTER 5     Benefits of Coaching Ministry Leaders

Dedication

Giving honor first to Jesus Christ the Lord, who has spoken the abundant blessings and favor upon my life. To God be all glory and honor.

This book is lovingly dedicated to my wife, Pastor Chelly Edmund, a profound preacher and godly woman filled with love, prayer and faithfulness. Love you Chelly!

To my children PJ, Jr., Brittany Chantelle, and Eryka Christine, you all bring such joy and meaning to my life. To my new daughter Miche’ (PJ’s wife) and our grandson Tyler (the 3rd) love is what we share. Thank you for all your sacrifice and patience as we move in ministry together.

To my loving parents, Bishop Gerald and Evangelist Sweedie Edmund. Your love and support I cherish every day. Thank you for sowing good seed in my life. I credit you both with where God has taken me.

To all my siblings Hedy Christine, Dexter Everald, Sr., Shandy Geraldine, Deborah Ruth (you will always be my inspiration . . I love you . . Rest In Peace!), and Rachel Rose. I love you all for your inspiration.

INTRODUCTION

The gift of leadership is birthed in every believer. Every Christian leader has tremendous contributions to ministry. The success for future generations depends largely on forward thinking pastors taking responsibility to train up successors. In this book, Principles of Effective Leadership, PJ Edmund presents the keys to developing effectiveness in leadership preparation. The Principles of Effective Leadership speaks to the heart of what makes a Christian leader excel in challenging, curious and courageous times. To say the least ministry comes laden with levels of pressure, stress and unpredictability. One of the ways to stay current and ahead of the ever changing leadership challenges is to invest in training and development.

You will learn:

• How to cultivate the passion to improve your leadership gift

• How to develop and work together as a dynamic ministry team

• How to understand the benefits of transformational training

Take the faith risk and lead!

The Principles of Effective Leadership embraces the thinking of what the 21st Century Christian leader must become to stay current in a changing and transforming generation. It begins with understanding vision. Anything to be aspired to must have a vision. The vision describes the end result of what God has already done. To help us make the first steps in ministry and leadership God paints a picture of what you are going to become eventually. It is the eventually picture that motivates each day and each step. No one climbs a mountain without first visualizing or seeing the summit. The summit confirms that there is an end to the journey. Likewise the vision confirms there is a conclusion to what God has promised.

David teaches The steps of a righteous person are ordered by the Lord (Psalms 37:23). This ordering is God’s way of ensuring that we know there is some logical, pattern and plan to the journey. When I cannot see where I am going, I can trust the steps that He orders me to take confidently. Leadership is constantly reminding yourself that He knows my path and my purpose even when we are in doubt.

Effective leaders see before they see. God’s leader sees in the supernatural what has not arrived in the natural yet. This leader starts the journey towards what we can become, while we are yet becoming it. It is a strange relationship of development, believing I am what I have not yet become, but knowing we are becoming it. The natural order of things is to acquire the skills to become skillful, then operate in that calling. The supernatural order of things is to have what it takes to become while growing the capability to operate in it.

Effective leaders must grow into the maturity of risky faith. Not knowing the outcome of anything is difficult. Leaders do not always know the outcome but they believe in an outcome through faith. If faith is a risk then it is a good risk because our relationship with God stands as the guarantor. When we trust in His word, it becomes the guarantee that we move towards. So believing God and trusting what He challenges us with is never a risk. What He says and what He prompts in our hearts is conclusion and not conception. The risk has already been taken and