Leading the Congregation: Caring for Yourself While Serving Others (Revised)
, by Heuser, Roger
- ISBN: 9781426711398 | 1426711395
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 10/1/2010
A complete and definitive guide to the practice of church leadership - newly revised.
Roger Heuser (PhD, New York University) is Professor of Leadership Studies at Vanguard University in Costa Mesa, California. He has served as pastor, consultant, retreat guide, and adjunct professor in multiple settings overseas and in the United States, including Fuller Theological Seminary. Norman Shawchuck (PhD, Northwestern University) has authored over twenty books on the subjects of spirituality, leadership, and conflict. He has led a distinguished career as pastor, consultant, trainer of US Navy and Marine military chaplains, and professor at Garrett Evangelical Seminary, McCormick Theological Seminary, and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.
| Preface | p. xi |
| The Dangers of Leading | p. 1 |
| The Danger of Serving Sacrificially | p. 4 |
| The Danger of Preserving the Institution for Its Own Sake | p. 8 |
| The Danger of Leading Others through Change | p. 10 |
| Defining Leadership | p. 12 |
| Leading from Within | |
| The Interior Attitudes of the Leader | p. 19 |
| Childlikeness | p. 20 |
| Humility | p. 24 |
| A Desire to Serve | p. 26 |
| Self-examination | p. 28 |
| The Leader's Spirituality | p. 32 |
| The Relentless Demands of Ministry | p. 33 |
| Spirituality Supports Ministry | p. 35 |
| Spirituality Renews Vision and Restores Energy | p. 37 |
| The Spirituality of Jesus: A Model for All Religious Leaders | p. 40 |
| The Three Elements of Jesus' Spirituality | p. 41 |
| Spirituality for Religious Leadership and Ministry | p. 46 |
| A Spirituality of Action and Contemplation | p. 47 |
| A Covenantal, Communal Spirituality | p. 49 |
| A Holistic Lifestyle of Spirituality | p. 51 |
| The Examen of Consciousness | p. 52 |
| The Means of Grace | p. 56 |
| The Leader's Call | p. 60 |
| Freedom to Respond to God's Call | p. 62 |
| The Call to Leadership | p. 64 |
| The Testing of the Call | p. 68 |
| The Resistance and Acceptance of the Call | p. 70 |
| The Madness of the Call | p. 72 |
| The Leader's Vision and Ensuing Mission | p. 75 |
| The Three Dimensions of Vision | p. 78 |
| An "Upward" View toward God | p. 78 |
| An "Inward" View of Oneself | p. 79 |
| An Outward View of the Circumstances | p. 80 |
| Mission: Turning Visions into Reality | p. 81 |
| The Interplay of Light and Shadow | p. 85 |
| Testing the Spirits | p. 86 |
| What Spirit Does the Leader Project upon the Congregation? | p. 87 |
| Five Shadows of Leadership | p. 89 |
| Expressions of Neurotic Leadership | p. 92 |
| The Dramatic Organization | p. 93 |
| The Suspicious Organization | p. 96 |
| The Detached Organization | p. 97 |
| The Depressive Organization | p. 98 |
| The Compulsive Organization | p. 99 |
| Deep Change | p. 100 |
| Discerning Priorities, Making Choices | p. 104 |
| Discerning Priorities in Role Demands | p. 105 |
| The Logic of Task Pursuit | p. 107 |
| Connect Your Charisms with What the Congregation Needs Most to Fulfill Its Mission | p. 108 |
| The Golden and Silver Threads | p. 109 |
| Become Clear about Bedrock Priorities | p. 110 |
| Communicate Your Priorities | p. 111 |
| Manage Time in Light of Your Priorities | p. 111 |
| Priorities of Urgency and Importance | p. 112 |
| Utilize the Influence of Your Own Example | p. 114 |
| Leading with Others | |
| Team Ethos | p. 120 |
| What is Our Shared Purpose? | p. 122 |
| Who is on the Team? | p. 123 |
| What are the Team's Guiding Principles? | p. 124 |
| Team Formation | p. 132 |
| What Makes a Team? | p. 133 |
| Team Maturity: Stages of Formation | p. 136 |
| Orientation to Team Purpose and Culture | p. 136 |
| Conflict with the Leader and among Team Members | p. 137 |
| Team Solidarity | p. 142 |
| Individuality, Interdependence, and Team Effectiveness | p. 142 |
| Teams Working through Conflict | p. 145 |
| Constructive and Destructive Conflict | p. 147 |
| Conflict's Social Construction of Reality | p. 148 |
| Conflict Defined | p. 149 |
| Dimensions of Conflict | p. 149 |
| Conflict Threats | p. 150 |
| Reactions to Threats | p. 151 |
| Levels and Goals of Conflict | p. 152 |
| The Conflict Cycle | p. 153 |
| Stage One: Tension Development | p. 154 |
| Stage Two: Role Dilemma | p. 155 |
| Stage Three: Injustice Collecting | p. 155 |
| Stage Four: Confronttation | p. 156 |
| Stage Five: Adjustments | p. 157 |
| Nonproductive Competition versus Productive Cooperation | p. 158 |
| Antagonists | p. 159 |
| Power, Rights, and Interests | p. 160 |
| Conflict Intervention | p. 161 |
| Develop a Relational Base | p. 163 |
| Filter the Assumptions, Rumors, and Charges | p. 164 |
| Establish Joint Collaboration for Problem Solving and Decision Making | p. 164 |
| Form Covenants to the Agreements Reached | p. 165 |
| Bringing Peace into the Room | p. 166 |
| The Team's Emotional Processes | p. 168 |
| Family Systems | p. 168 |
| The Team's Emotional Processes | p. 170 |
| Attributes of Emotional Gridlock | p. 171 |
| Characteristics of Chronically Anxious Families | p. 172 |
| Emotional Reactivity | p. 173 |
| The Herding Instinct | p. 174 |
| Blame Displacement | p. 175 |
| The Quick-fix Mentality | p. 176 |
| Poorly Defined Leadership or Failure of Nerve | p. 177 |
| Self-differentiated Leaders | p. 177 |
| The Leadership Team: Pastors and Boards | p. 182 |
| The Roles and Responsibilities of Trustees | p. 184 |
| The Guardian of the Institutional Mission | p. 184 |
| Create a Continual Climate of Trust | p. 185 |
| Empower Leadership and Ministry Teams | p. 186 |
| Formulate Guiding Principles That Begin with Broad Values and Move toward More Specific Policies | p. 187 |
| The Chairperson of the Board | p. 188 |
| Primus Inter Pares-First among Equals | p. 189 |
| Common Problems Confronting the Board | p. 190 |
| When Members Are Underutilized | p. 190 |
| When Members Are Incompetent or Immature | p. 191 |
| When Trust is Replaced by Compliance or Control | p. 192 |
| Ambiguity and Governance | p. 193 |
| The Issue of Trust: Power and Authority | p. 193 |
| The Ambiguity of Specialization versus Generalization | p. 195 |
| The Ambiguity of Belief versus Criticism | p. 196 |
| A Spirituality of Church Boards | p. 196 |
| Leading Toward Transformation | |
| The Spirituality of the Congregation | p. 206 |
| The Western Model versus the Scriptural Model of Spirituality | p. 209 |
| Espoused Spirituality versus Lived Spirituality | p. 211 |
| The Leader's Experience and Example | p. 213 |
| The Pastor as Spiritual Companion | p. 214 |
| The Pastor as Knower of the Seasons | p. 215 |
| The Prerequisites for Spiritual Formation | p. 218 |
| The Balance between Solitude and Community | p. 220 |
| The Means of Grace | p. 222 |
| A Clear and Compelling Mission | p. 226 |
| Mission Is Contextual | p. 229 |
| The Local Church Mission and Its Environment | p. 231 |
| A Creative Tension between Mission and the Environment | p. 233 |
| The Apostolic Church: A Frontier Mission within a Hostile Environment | p. 234 |
| The Church in Christendom: Ministering within a Friendly Environment Whose Mission Is a "Far Off" Enterprise | p. 234 |
| A Current Challenge for Local Congregations | p. 235 |
| Discerning the Congregation's Mission | p. 236 |
| The Timeless and Timely Aspects of Mission | p. 237 |
| Three Questions of Missional Clarity | p. 239 |
| Who Are We? | p. 239 |
| What Is Our Business (To What Purpose Has God Called Us)? | p. 241 |
| How Do We Decide on the Right Mission Priorities and Get Them Done? | p. 243 |
| Planned Abandonment | p. 245 |
| The Vision We Share | p. 248 |
| The Difference between Vision and Mission | p. 249 |
| Three Ways of Imagining the Future | p. 251 |
| The "Wishing" Congregation | p. 252 |
| The "Dreaming" Congregation | p. 252 |
| The "Visionary" Congregation | p. 253 |
| Alignment through Shared Vision, Mission, and Core Values | p. 253 |
| How Vision May Come to a Congregation | p. 255 |
| A Spiritual Encounter | p. 255 |
| A Divine Impulse or Blessed Hunch | p. 255 |
| Seeing through a Need | p. 257 |
| Bringing Together the Hopes and Dreams of the Members | p. 257 |
| Practicing Foresight | p. 259 |
| Shared Visioning Is a Process | p. 259 |
| Spirituality is a Prerequisite for Vision | p. 260 |
| Encourage the Call in Individuals and Find Common Ground in a Shared Vision | p. 261 |
| Communicating the Vision | p. 263 |
| Empowering People to Enact the Vision | p. 265 |
| Vision Is Nurtured in a Climate of Trust and Communication | p. 266 |
| Why Visions Do Not Succeed | p. 267 |
| Transformational Change | p. 270 |
| Orientation, Disorientation, and New Orientation | p. 272 |
| The Nature of Change | p. 273 |
| Patterns of Growth and Decline | p. 273 |
| Coexisting Curves | p. 275 |
| Environmental Change: Threats or Opportunities | p. 276 |
| Types of Change | p. 277 |
| Denial and Resistance | p. 279 |
| Developmental, Transitional, and Transformational Change | p. 280 |
| Transformational Change | p. 284 |
| Wake-up Calls | p. 285 |
| Chaos | p. 286 |
| Death-Mindset Forced to Shift | p. 288 |
| Re-emergence through Visioning and Learning | p. 288 |
| Proactive Leaders in Transformational Change | p. 289 |
| The Leader's Conscious and Unconscious Awareness | p. 289 |
| Change Strategies | p. 290 |
| Proactive Disciplines of Change | p. 292 |
| Excellence | p. 292 |
| Innovation | p. 294 |
| Anticipation | p. 294 |
| Epilogue: On Finishing Well | p. 300 |
| Notes | p. 305 |
| Author Index | p. 325 |
| Subject Index | p. 327 |
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