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Church Leadership: The Stuff you Usually Learn the Hard Way
Let’s face it – church leadership is both highly rewarding and downright
challenging. Pastors and church leaders can often feel that they can’t ask
for help or admit when things are hard. Deep down, many in leadership
long for someone older – a mentor who has been through it before – to
reassuringly look them in the eye and say, “You’re doing better than you
think you are, but here’s how to become even better!”
Peter Prothero’s book, Church The stuff you usually learn the
hard way, provides this reassurance and guidance based on 40 years of
leadership experience. It’s a ‘how to’ book for those starting out in their
leadership journey and for those who have been on the road a while but
have become stuck.
Covering a range of topics – often unspoken about – such as “The Ten
Plagues of Church Gatherings” and “The Awkward Conversation”, Church
Leadership will help you get unstuck if you are and for those beginning
their journey, to help you avoid getting stuck!
Love where there is hate. Show mercy where there is judgement. Colour
where there is beige. Forgive where there is resentment. Bring freedom
where there is oppression.
This is what you are meant to do as a leader.
Get on with it.
challenging. Pastors and church leaders can often feel that they can’t ask
for help or admit when things are hard. Deep down, many in leadership
long for someone older – a mentor who has been through it before – to
reassuringly look them in the eye and say, “You’re doing better than you
think you are, but here’s how to become even better!”
Peter Prothero’s book, Church The stuff you usually learn the
hard way, provides this reassurance and guidance based on 40 years of
leadership experience. It’s a ‘how to’ book for those starting out in their
leadership journey and for those who have been on the road a while but
have become stuck.
Covering a range of topics – often unspoken about – such as “The Ten
Plagues of Church Gatherings” and “The Awkward Conversation”, Church
Leadership will help you get unstuck if you are and for those beginning
their journey, to help you avoid getting stuck!
Love where there is hate. Show mercy where there is judgement. Colour
where there is beige. Forgive where there is resentment. Bring freedom
where there is oppression.
This is what you are meant to do as a leader.
Get on with it.
341 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 28, 2022
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May 16, 2023
This book is definitely not for everybody. Its good to be ready for it :)
I really like most of the points. It's a radical change and improvement of "traditional" pentecostal churches. There are many practical advices what to do and what you shouldn't or stop doing in the church, whether in leadership or during services and WHY?
For example he talks about making decisions, Choosing elders and trustees, about awkward conversations and cultivating respect.
He talks about preaching, how long it should be and why, about offering, about worship, there is only one point in a whole book where I disagree:)) cuz He compares worship singers to world class singers like Celion Dion and of course these professionals are able to sing without text sheet on stage. Its simply because She or any other star sings the same sheet 20years (max 50 songs I guess) and usually they have few months tour each year (where they sing 10 songs max every day for months). But if you have full time employed band in the church its surely possible, even they have more than 1000 songs on list.
I really like most of the points. It's a radical change and improvement of "traditional" pentecostal churches. There are many practical advices what to do and what you shouldn't or stop doing in the church, whether in leadership or during services and WHY?
For example he talks about making decisions, Choosing elders and trustees, about awkward conversations and cultivating respect.
He talks about preaching, how long it should be and why, about offering, about worship, there is only one point in a whole book where I disagree:)) cuz He compares worship singers to world class singers like Celion Dion and of course these professionals are able to sing without text sheet on stage. Its simply because She or any other star sings the same sheet 20years (max 50 songs I guess) and usually they have few months tour each year (where they sing 10 songs max every day for months). But if you have full time employed band in the church its surely possible, even they have more than 1000 songs on list.
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