Developing a Dynamic Mission for Your Ministry: Finding Direction and Making an Impact as a Church Leader

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Kregel Academic - 140 pages

Many otherwise well-trained pastors are often unprepared for actual leadership in the local church. Effective leaders must know how to provide direction, and the key to a leader's direction is one's mission. This new work on a crucial ministry topic mission is addressed by a recognized leader in the field. In his practival step-by-step style. Malphurs presents a development for eah ministry, and its implementation through a Carefully refined ministry strategy.

As Malphurs explains, The act of leadership is fundamentally the act of articulating first a ministry mission statement and then pursuing it. Therefore, the purpose of this book is to help you as leaders develop and articulate a definitive, well thought-out mission statement for your ministry.

 

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Contents

Introduction
7
The Importance of the Mission Nine Reasons Why a Mission Is Important
13
The Definition of a Mission Part 1 What Are We Talking About Anyway?
28
The Definition of a Mission Part 2 Is It a Vision or a Mission?
44
The Development of the Mission Part 1 Four Steps for Writing Your Own Mission Statement
60
The Development of the Mission Part 2 The Test of a Good Mission Statement
78
The Communication of the Mission Nine Ways to Propagate Your Mission
95
The Implementation of the Mission Your StrategyThe Key to Implementing Your Mission
105
The Preservation of the Mission Nine Ways to Preserve Your Mission
122
The Mission Audit
135
How to Develop Your Mission Statement
Index
Copyright

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Bibliographic information

TitleDeveloping a Dynamic Mission for Your Ministry: Finding Direction and Making an Impact as a Church Leader
AuthorAubrey Malphurs
PublisherKregel Academic
ISBN0825494613, 9780825494611
Length140 pages
  
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