Live Anointed: How the Holy Spirit Sanctifies Men and Women to Lead Together

by Katie Lance, Elizabeth Glass Turner (editor), Rev. Dr. Ed Love (foreword)

“You’re telling me things I’ve never heard before.” Ordained Wesleyan pastor Rev. Katie E. Lance began hearing this regularly from male colleagues when she described the challenges encountered by women in pastoral leadership. In Live Anointed, she responds to dysfunction in the body of Christ with a robust, practical vision of sanctified kingdom fullness.

This book invites readers to engage the surprising complexity of one simple
What does it look like when men and women say their next “yes” to God?

It isn’t always easy–but that’s to be expected. After the unexpected hurdles led Lance to interview hundreds of church leaders, she applied her findings in this timely exploration. Drawing on her background as a registered nurse, Lance describes the disruptive hurdles preventing women and men from co-laboring effectively. With practical steps, each chapter features discussion questions by contributors from pastoral and academic backgrounds.

In Live Anointed, Lance invites small groups, church members, leadership cohorts, ordination candidates, ministry students, pastors, and organizational leaders to engage topics
• Hurdles to vocational discernment for women answering God’s call
• Why the holiness movement settled for less than kingdom fullness
• Hard conversations and healthy alternatives to the “Billy Graham rule”
• How to catalyze leaders effectively and steward vocation well

Are you ready for the freedom to live anointed?

247 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 22, 2024

Reviews

[Evan Hoekzema · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really appreciated this work by Rev. Lance. At one point in her book she mentions not moving away from the “sting of hard conversations”, which I think she models well. She tackles some of the realities of how the Church is currently comprised and our inconsistencies in terms of how women and men work together for the good of the Kingdom. She details well different roadblocks that need to be removed and paints a picture of a better, brighter future. It’s worth the read!