Dare Mighty Things: Mapping the Challenges of Leadership for Christian Women

by Halee Gray Scott

The main challenges and strategies of success for CHRISTIAN WOMEN LEADERS Are you showing up for your own life? Or are you watching it slowly drain away, each moment emptied of its potential? At age twenty, Halee Gray Scott was doing things her way when God challenged her with these two questions. Confronted with the brevity of human life, she determined to start living with purpose and passion and help others do the same. For the last seven years, Halee has been studying the lives of female Christian leaders to determine what keeps them from fully flourishing as people of influence. It's not that Christian women cannot or do not want to lead; it's that their way is fraught with roadblocks. In Dare Mighty Things, Halee unpacks the results of her research, tackling the top challenges for Christian women, including: What prevents us from seeing ourselves as leaders How to discern what we are really, truly meant to do How to navigate between our roles as women and leaders How the myth that only 'exceptional' Christian women can lead hurts all Christian women Dare Mighty Things is a guidebook for women navigating the difficult waters of leadership. Packed with helpful advice and strategies for success, it will challenge you to claim your God-given potential and lead with confidence, poise, and grace.

Genres: Leadership, Womens, Christian, Nonfiction, Church

256 pages, Paperback

First published February 25, 2014

Reviews

[Kristi Jett · Rating 5 out of 5]

This might be my favorite book on women’s leadership. Instead of giving a bunch of ideas on how to lead a successful women’s ministry to satisfy the women in your church, she, instead, points women to use their God-given gifts to serve and minister to women outside the church. She addresses the shallowness of many women’s ministries and how they can play into stereotypes about women instead of celebrating the variety of women in congregations. She also goes into challenges that women in leadership face, but continually points back to following Christ and that being worth the struggle. She spends time explaining character of leadership which is character based rather than personality based. There is so much in this book that is excellent. It is a good resource for women who lead in the church, but I also believe it is a great book for any women because really the author is teaching how to be a woman who follows God, makes disciples, and leads in whatever role she finds herself in.

[Sabrina McClain · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dr. Scott has assembled a must read for every Christian woman. DARE MIGHTY THINGS is a handbook for Christian women that will help you understand the limits the world puts on you and overcome them through the power of Jesus Christ. I’ve never felt so seen, so understood. Consider this the LEAN IN for Christian women.

[Brittany]

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[Garland Vance]

A well-researched and thought-provoking work on mobilizing Christian women to embrace the leadership that they already demonstrate. Halee Gray Scott is equally astute theologically and practically. She challenges the current paradigms of ministry to women with the notion of ministry by women.

[Gina Dalfonzo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Balanced, positive, encouraging, and challenging.

(Disclaimer: The author is a friend.)