Spiritual Leadership: Moving People on to God's Agenda, Revised and Expanded

Every page of this book is an eye opener. As an experienced leader, this book confirms so much of my personal leadership skills and spiritual wisdom that have brought me this far. I have learned from this book what it means to move people to where God wants to be, and it has redefined the purpose of my leadership. I’ve gained more spiritual insights in my journey and my prayer life has become more fulfilling. The details in each chapter and summary makes it easier to memorize the important lessons and understand the context of the material. Totally worth reading and 100 percent recommended.

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This book's primary audience is evangelical Christian pastors with an additional audience of Christians who serve or wish to serve in leadership positions in their churches, businesses and families. If you are of a strongly secular mindset, the book's thesis that God works in the world today will seem naïve or alien to you and I suspect that you will have difficulty accepting, let alone absorbing, the principal message of the book. The book examines a very wide range of leaders, both Christian and non-Christian, including Lee Iacocca, Napoleon, Henry VIII, Abraham Lincoln and Dwight L. Moody, for example. The authors focus on leadership in churches, businesses and families, but does not look intently at leadership in the realm of political campaigns and looks at political governance only at a high level. The book provides practical guidance on the challenges of leading, and sometimes failing, in churches, businesses and families. Financial gain, ego needs and sexual improprieties may, and do, adversely impact Christian leaders. How some, Billy Graham for instance, have avoided these downfalls are reviewed in the book. The book offers advice on team building and managing one's schedule to focus on the important matters, which includes the leader's family, which sometimes are not the most urgent. The book offers a great deal of practical advice on many aspects of leadership. The book is well written, but it isn't particularly short. If avoids the usual business book failure of providing one insight that takes 20-30 pages and then repeating that insight 5 or 6 times to have a book. You will need to engage the book to realize its message. God works on earth through humans and humans need leaders. Leaders face special challenges and the Blackabys offer scholarly insight on what makes effective leaders for God's work. I recommend the book.

A very insightful book detailing the Biblical view of genuine leadership under the authority of Jesus Christ. There are many personal testimonies given in the book to bring life to the message of the Bible about leadership - both success stories and failures. Worthy read and worthy application in anyone's life - mature believer or a new believer for life's challenges whether at work or home.

So insightful! I found myself underlying something significant on practically every page. Very well-written and useful. I've given it as a gift to others, as has my church. If only every leader followed the advice in it!

This spiritual leadership book was required reading for my Leadership Principles and Ethics. Through thirteen chapters, Blackaby and Blackaby discuss spiritual leadership from a Christian perspective. This means obeying God in an individual’s private life and the public arena. As Proverbs 2:20 states these two spheres of influence cannot be separate endeavors for good men and women to walk in righteousness. According to Blackaby and Blackaby, the Bible says “God is not necessarily looking for leader” but rather God “is looking for servants” (2011, p. xiv). Consequently, a Christian educational leader's efforts should be geared more toward the greater glory of God instead of achieving secular rewards which if not pursued for celebrating God are an “ill-gotten gain”. The authors recommend employing critical thinking when reviewing secular knowledge because it may contradict biblical teachings. This spiritual leadership book was required reading for my Leadership and Principles in Leadership class. Through thirteen chapters, Blackaby and Blackaby discuss spiritual leadership from a Christian perspective. This means obeying God in an individual’s private life and the public arena. As Proverbs 2:20 states these two spheres of influence cannot be separate endeavors for good men and women to walk in righteousness. According to Blackaby and Blackaby, the Bible says “God is not necessarily looking for leader” but rather God “is looking for servants” (p. xiv). Consequently, a Christian educational leader's efforts should be geared more toward the greater glory of God instead of achieving secular rewards which if not pursued for celebrating God are an “ill-gotten gain”. The authors recommend employing critical thinking when reviewing secular knowledge because it may contradict biblical teachings. The book’s assertions regarding illegitimate and legitimate leadership are interesting as well. Leaders employing illegitimate sources of influence (positional, power, and personality) can lack substance (p. 154). One’s positional authority or duty title is insufficient to guarantee genuine influence over those you are entrusted to lead. Respect is earned and misused power can quickly undermine one’s moral authority. Likewise, a charismatic leader who relies upon his or her personality must also be backed up by competence and compassion for others or they cannot lead for long. Subsequently, a good spiritual leader trains and develops those entrusted in his or her care not to perform while the leader is there but to prosper independently when the leader is gone. Likewise, legitimate sources of power (spirituality, integrity, credibility, preparedness, humility, and courage) help leaders earn the respect of their followers (p. 179). The writing style is conversational and has several real-world examples of leaders such as CEOs, presidents, and monarchs. Henry and Richard Blackaby are a father and son working for their business Blackaby Ministries International. .

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This is an revised and expanded version of the older ones from years prior.......plus there's some new material in it too. Overall it's still an excellent leadership book to read and learn from in one's every day aspects of one's life whether you're Christian or non-Christian.. But as a Christian leaders go through this book, you will learn something and even may learn something about yourself in the process. Even though this is geared toward a Christian beliefs or even if you're not a Christian, this is still a great book for leadership roles on the job as well. If you take your time and go through this book, you will learn something and it will help you in your daily life..

Great resource for those in leadership who want to consider the examples of those in the Bible.

This is an amazing and practical book about Spiritual leadership! In this book you can find practical steps to be more effective to lead people to God’s agenda! You should read it!

Kindle edition of a book, being used for study. It's a great resource for me, informative and well written. And I've discovered the utility of the Kindle edition for being able to insert references direct from the Kindle app to an assignment.

Este libro ha cambiado mi forma de ver el liderazgo cristiano. Henry Blackaby y su hijo han definido bíblicamente la meta, el motivo, la razón de liderar. Su forma de explicarse y su base bíblica se juntan para dar una claridad al tema que no he visto nunca. Simplifica y facilita la labor de un dirigente cristiano. Su carga es ligera y Su yugo es fácil y así debe ser la labro de un líder cristiano. Muy recomendable.

Leading people according to God’s agenda makes so much sense. It leaves us comforted and with no pressure. May we all live this way.