Aubrey Malphurs, Values-Driven Leadership: Discovering and Developing Your Core Values for Ministry, Second Edition. Baker Books, 2004.
Referenced in:
- Strategies for Church Renewal – Leader-Directed Vision Casting
- Strategies for Church Renewal – Strategic Planning, Leader/Participatory
LifeandLeadership.com Summary
Just as Malphurs’ Developing a Vision for Ministry in the 21st Century and Developing a Dynamic Mission for Your Ministry provide comprehensive guidance on congregational vision and mission, so this volume gives thorough instruction on values. Alongside Malphurs’ Advanced Strategic Planning, these constitute an excellent library on this approach to church renewal from a pragmatic/church growth perspective. Aubrey Malphurs has written extensively on church leadership. He is a seasoned scholar-practitioner with considerable experience as a consultant and seminary professor.
Anyone who reads material on church renewal will be exposed to the concepts of vision, mission, values, etc. Clarifying these components of congregational purpose is usually an important dimension of renewal. It is difficult at times to understand the similarities and differences between them and know how to articulate and reinforce them throughout the congregation. Malphurs’ volumes on mission, values, and vision excel at this, and offer perhaps the best guides on these subjects from a pragmatic/church growth perspective.
In this volume on values, Malphurs discusses why values are important, how to define values and their relation to mission and vision, how to discover and develop values, and then how to communicate, implement, and preserve congregational values. Extensive appendices give examples of values statements from churches, parachurch organizations, and other organizations. He also provides a “Core Values Audit” and “Readiness for Change Inventory.
From the Publisher
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.
About the Author
Aubrey Malphurs (Th.M., Ph.D., Dallas Theological Seminary) is president of Vision Ministries International and chairman of the Field Education Department at Dallas Theological Seminary. He has served as a pastor and church planter and is the author of numerous books in the areas of leadership, vision, and church ministry, including Ministry Nuts and Bolts: What They Don’t Teach Pastors in Seminary; Doing Church; and Developing a Dynamic Mission for Your Ministry.
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