Values-Driven Leadership: Discovering and Developing Your Core Values for Ministry

by Aubrey Malphurs

What are the core values of your ministry? Values-Driven Leadership is a pioneering work designed to help church and parachurch leaders understand the cutting-edge concept of organizational core values. Every ministry organization has a set of core values that guides what the ministry seeks to accomplish. Understanding and implementing these core values is key to a high-performing ministry. In this revised edition, Aubrey Malphurs offers important insights on new research in the field of leadership and delineates techniques for implementing those insights in practical ways. After exploring the concepts in Values-Driven Leadership, you'll be able to take concrete steps to write your ministry's values in a credo or values statement and focus in on your mission. This edition includes -Helpful discussion questions -Core values audits -A readiness-for-change inventory to help you and your ministry identify areas in need of attention -The latest research on values -New insights into the differences between values and beliefs. This is a useful book for individuals, boards, committees, and leadership teams.

Genres: Leadership, Church, Reference

188 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1996

Reviews

[Bryon · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the things I love to do on vacation is read. I usually read for fun and leisure during extended down-time, but this time I re-read Values Driven Leadership by Aubrey Malphurs. Malphurs is not a super-hip mega church pastor with a staff of ghost writers, he's a researcher and educator and his work reads a lot like Barna's stuff. In the back of his books are found a useful, but rare these days, tool like an index or an appendix. So this book can be used a sort of like a text book.

What I like most is that it doesn't read like a text book and it doesn't read like a transcribed sermon. It reads like someone is humbly sharing some common sense ideas that prod your own thought processes in a way that makes you think you could of come up with the same conclusions. It's like Malphurs brainstorms with you.

This is the second book I've read of his. I also read, along with some guys on our staff, Developing a Vision for Ministry in the 21st Century, which I would make the same kind of comments.

Aubrey Malphurs books are must reads for serious church planters, church staff, and para-church organizations.

Go forth and fill your head with knowledge.

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