| Format: | Hardcover w/ Jacket |
| Page Count: | 256 |
| Size: | 6.0 in x 9.0 in |
| Weight: | 8.0 ounces |
| ISBN-10: | 1-4335-9931-7 |
| ISBN-13: | 978-1-4335-9931-6 |
| ISBN-UPC: | 9781433599316 |
| Published: | January 07, 2025 |
Leadership Principles for Pastors and Leaders Navigating the Challenges of Pastoral Ministry
The church is experiencing a leadership crisis. For every celebrity pastor exiting in the spotlight, there are hundreds of lesser-known pastors leaving in the shadows. Why are so many pastors leaving the ministry? Bestselling author Paul David Tripp suggests that lurking behind the failure of a pastor is a weak leadership community.
Turning to Scripture for guidance, Tripp presents readers with 12 leadership-community principles necessary for a gospel-centered leadership model. Here is a book with a message for those new to ministry as well as those experienced in it—God’s abiding presence is your hope in leadership.
- Perfect for Pastors and Church Leaders: Presents a church-leadership model that is informed by the gospel of Jesus Christ
- Practical: Highlights 12 principles for leadership: achievement, gospel, limits, balance, character, war, servants, candor, identity, restoration, longevity, and presence
- Now with Study Questions: Use these prompts to reflect on each chapter alone or in a small-group setting
Author:
Paul David Tripp (DMin, Westminster Theological Seminary) is a pastor, an award-winning author, and an international conference speaker. He has written numerous books, including Lead; Parenting; and the bestselling devotional New Morning Mercies. His not-for-profit ministry exists to connect the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life. Tripp lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Luella, and they have four grown children.
Product Details
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: Crisis
Chapter 1: Achievement
Chapter 2: Gospel
Chapter 3: Limits
Chapter 4: Balance
Chapter 5: Character
Chapter 6: War
Chapter 7: Servants
Chapter 8: Candor
Chapter 9: Identity
Chapter 10: Restoration
Chapter 11: Longevity
Chapter 12: Presence
General Index
Scripture Index
Endorsements
“This book is the perfect complement to Tripp’s Dangerous Calling. The warning of ‘functional gospel amnesia’ captures so well why this book is needed. Leaders do not need more gimmicks. Leaders need more grace. They need more gospel.”
Daniel L. Akin, President, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
“The strength of this book lies in the way Tripp shapes his treatment of leadership by two things: his understanding of the gospel, and his grasp of the organic nature of the local church. At one level, this is an easy read; at another level, it is sometimes probing and painful.”
D. A. Carson, Theologian-at-Large, The Gospel Coalition
“Tripp knows the heart and hurts of the leader. He writes with a vulnerable compassion borne out of shared experiences and a conviction rooted in deep biblical wisdom. Lead is by far the best book on ministry leadership I have read and one to which I will undoubtedly return.”
Mark Bailey, Chancellor and Senior Professor of Bible Exposition, Dallas Theological Seminary
“Wow. I had no idea that reviewing this book would become so very personal, so penetrating—an experience of leadership surgery that sliced my soul open with conviction and then sutured it shut with grace. Tripp is among the few who have the experience, stature, transparency, and clarity to call church leaders back to the urgency of gospel transformation in ministry. May God give me, and all of us, ears to hear these truths . . . and enough courageous humility to apply them!”
Dave Harvey, President, Great Commission Collective; author, The Plurality Principle
“While this book is written primarily for pastors and ministry leaders, it is appropriate for any Christ-following leaders who operate in the sacred or the secular. As a leader who spent thirty years in c-suite roles in business and now almost four years as a leader in a global ministry, I found the twelve gospel principles to be spot on. I encourage any leader, either in business or ministry, to pick this book up and digest it.”
Steve Shackelford, Chief Executive Officer, Redeemer City to City
“Only read this book if you are desperate to be a more humble, gentle, and gracious servant of Christ. If you want something that will chart your way to ecclesiastical fame and celebrity-pastor status, this is not it. This book is about sacrificial, humble, death-to-self leadership—not self-centered, superficial, self-promoting, narcissistic authoritarianism. On every page, Tripp challenges us to recapture a thoroughly biblical approach to leadership in the church, and that is precisely what we need as we lead amid the raging battle all around us—a battle for our joy, our perseverance, our lives, our families, and the people we serve—to the end that God would get all the glory, and not us.”
Burk Parsons, Senior Pastor, Saint Andrew’s Chapel, Sanford, Florida; Editor, Tabletalk
“Tripp’s books have been some of the most influential books in my life. Lead is no exception! You will find within the pages of this book practical, gospel-centered help as you lead and serve others.”
Jennie Allen, New York Times best-selling author, Get Out of Your Head; Founder, IF:Gathering
“I think I have read everything Paul Tripp has written! Few people have inspired and instructed me with clear, gospel-saturated wisdom like he has, and I’m excited to see him apply this wisdom to leadership. As is often said, everything rises or falls on leadership, including the family, the home, and the spiritual self. Dangerous Calling was eerily prophetic in its anticipation of the fall of a number of high-profile leaders, each one adding to the heartbreak of a church in a leadership crisis. I am grateful to see that conversation extended, and I hope many will not only read this book, but saturate themselves in the gospel it puts forward.”
J. D. Greear, Pastor, The Summit Church, Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina