Marshall Shelly, Editor, Leading Your Church Through Conflict and Reconciliation: 30 Strategies to Transform Your Ministry. Bethany House, 1997.
Referenced in: Understanding the Dynamics of Church Conflict
LifeandLeadership.com Summary
From the Library of Leadership Development, this is an excellent collection of articles from Leadership magazine. Contributors include Speed Leas, Bill Hybels, Chuck Swindoll, Stuart Briscoe, Jack Hayford and many others. The authors are either church leaders or consultants who reflect on their own experiences with church conflict. This is a practical book, with several stories that will resonate with church leaders.
From the Publisher
“The only pastors who don’t experience regular, character-building periods of conflict,” a pastor once said, “are either bullies who walk all over everyone or cowards afraid to stand up for what God wants to accomplish.” Church leaders are lightning rods, attracting the highly charged complaints and grievances of church members. This first volume in the Library of Leadership Development helps pastors and lay leaders understand, prevent, and redeem conflict. Its authors who have survived and thrived in church conflict tell their stories and explain the principles that help them lead through the storms of congregational life. Now, in a never-before-collected lineup, are thirty chapters from respected leaders.
About the Author
Marshall Shelley is a vice president of Christianity Today, Inc. He is also the author of several books including Well-Intentioned Dragons and Helping Those Who Don’t Want to Be Helped. He holds a journalism degree from Bethel College in Minnesota and a M.Div. from Denver Seminary in Colorado. Marshall and his family live in Illinois.
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