A growing list of resources for Christian Ministry, Christian Leadership, and Church Leaders
Administration
- Administration, Index
- Administration, General Manuals
- Architecture, Building (Archive)
- Church Finances
- Giving and Financial Stewardship
- Manager-Leader Continuum
- Managing Volunteers
- Marketing and Communication (Archive)
- Personnel, Minister Evaluation
- Policy Governance, Carver Model
- Tax, Legal, and Risk Management
APEPT/APEST
Appreciative Inquiry
Beginning Ministry
Burnout, Self-Care
- Burnout, Self-Care Index
- Burnout, Preventing and Overcoming
- Minister Support Systems
- Self-Care
- Strengthening, Renewing Ministry Call
Change and Transition
- Change and Transition, Index
- Change Concepts and Theories
- Change Receptiveness and Resistance
- Leading Change and Transition
Church and Culture
Church Growth
Church Identity
Church Leadership and Renewal
Foundations- Foundations, Church Dynamics
- Foundations, Church Identity, Culture
- Foundations, Congregational Research
- Foundations, Research on Effective Churches
- Foundations, Size Dynamics/Transitions
- Foundations, Theological – Ecclesiology
- Philosophies, Index (Archive)
- Church Growth (Archive)
- Missional (Archive)
- Emergent (Archive)
- Resurgent Reformed (Archive)
- Convergent With Conventional (Archive)
- Convergent With Attractional (Archive)
- Missionally Responsive/Evangelical (Archive)
- Missionally Responsive/Eclectic (Archive)
- Strategies, Overview
- Appreciative Inquiry
- Asset-Mapping
- Congregational Health Cycle
- Diagnostic-Prescriptive
- Diagnostic-Prescriptive, Easum-Bandy
- Disciple-Making
- Future Search
- Large Group Faciliation
- Mergers
- Missional Strategies
- Open Space Technology
- Organic Church (Conventional),
- Organic Church (Emergent/Viola, Cole),
- Revival
- Scenario Planning
- Seasonal, Rhythmic
- Simple, Minimalist
- Small Churches
- Spiritual-Strategic Integrated
- Strategic Planning, Church-Driven
- Strategic Planning, Leader-Driven
- Traditional Church Renewal
- Vision-Casting, Leader-Directed
- Vision-Emergence, People-Directed
- Whole Systems
- World Cafe
Conflict
- Conflict Introduction
- Conflict Education
- Conflict Resolution and Management
- Communication, Healthy Behaviors, Forgiveness
- Communication Competence, Leaders
- Congregational Trauma, Minister Misconduct
- Criticism, Difficult People, Difficult Conversations
- Leadership, Preaching, Worship During Conflict
Core Values
Counseling
Crisis Care
Difficult People
Discipleship
Ecclesiology
Elders
Emergent
Emotional Systems
Empowerment
Ending Ministry
Ethics in Ministry
Evaluation
Evangelism
Finances, Church
Funerals
Generations
Giving, Financial Stewardship
Greeting, Hospitality
Healthy Churches
- Church Renewal Strategies, Index
- Congregational Health Cycle
- Diagnostic/Prescriptive Church Renewal
- Diagnostic/Disciple-Making Church Renewal
Hospital Visitation
Interim Ministry
Involvement
- Gift-Based Ministry and Involvement Systems
- Greeting, New Member Integration
- Managing Volunteers
- Ministry Teams, Congregational
- Spiritual Gifts
Job Descriptions
Leadership
Leadership Development- Leadership Development, Index
- In Congregations
- Over Life-Span, Clinton Emergence Theory
- Through Character Formation
- Through Communication Competence
- Through Failure and Setback
- Through Life Effectiveness
- Through Life Experiences
- Through Self-Assessment
- Through Spiritual Formation
- Adaptive Leadership (Heifetz)
- Chaos, Complexity Theory (Wheatley)
- Character-Based Leadership (Thrall, Covey)
- Corporate Culture (Senge)
- Courageous Leadership (Hybels)
- Emotional Intelligence (Goleman)
- Emotional Systems (Steinke)
- Inspiring Leadership (Maxwell)
- Intuitive Leadership (Townsend)
- Leader-Manager Continuum (Zaleznik)
- Leading With Questions (Marquardt)
- Learning Organization (Senge)
- Level Five Leadership (Collins)
- Missional Leadership, APEPT (Hirsch)
- Narrative Leadership (Golemon)
- New Science (Wheatley)
- Primal Leadership (Boyatzis)
- Self-Differentiated Leadership (Friedman)
- Servant Leadership (Greenleaf)
- Shepherd Leadership (Anderson)
- Situational Leadership (Blanchard)
- Strengths-Based Leadership (Buckingham-Rath)
- Styles-Based Leadership (Bolton)
- Subordinate Role Leadership (Crowley-Elster)
- Team Leadership (Lencioni,Cladis)
- Visionary Leadership (Nanus, Stanley)
Millennial Generation
Ministry Staff
- See “Teams”
Missional Church (Archive)
Foundations Leadership- Missional Communities (Organic, Convergent, etc.)
- Missional Lifestyle, Discipleship, Spirituality
- Missional Leadership Strategies (Archive)
- 01 Introduction to Missional (Archive)
- 02 Emergent (Archive)
- 03 Missio Dei -Definition, Contribution (Archive)
- 04 Missio Dei -Observations, Pt 1 (Archive)
- 05 Missio Dei -Observations, Pt 2 (Archive)
- 06 Missionally Responsive Trajectories (Archive)
- 07 Postmodernism, Must We Respond? (Archive)
- 08 Evangelism (Archive)
New Members
Organic Church
Pastoral Care and Counseling
- Pastoral Care and Counseling, Index
- Pastoral Care Resources
- Pastoral Counseling Resources (Archive)
- Pre-Marital Counseling (Archive)
- Weddings and Funerals (Archive)
Pastoral Theology
Policy Governance
Politics, Church-State (Archive)
Preacher Search and Selection
Revival
Self-Care
Shepherding
Simple Church
Size Transitions
Small Churches
Small Groups
- In development
Social Ministry, Social Justice
- Social Ministry, Index
- Foundations, Philosophy and Theology
- Perspectives, Economics & Public Policy (Archive)
- Perspectives, Politics & Church-State (Archive)
- Social Ministry Strategies
- Urban Ministry (Archive)
Servant Leadership
Spiritual Formation
Spiritual Gifts
Spiritual Leadership
Staff
- See “Teams” below
Strategic Planning
Systems
- Emotional Systems, Self-Differentiation
- Empowering, Congregational Systems (Shawchuck)
- Organizational Systems, Learning Organization (Senge)
Teams -Staff, Leaders, Congregation
- Ministry Staff and Teams, Index
- Congregational Ministry Teams
- Ministry Teams, General Resources
- Ministry Staff and Leadership Teams
- Staff Evaluation
Theology of Mission and Ministry
- Theology of Mission and Ministry, Index
- Theology of Church Administration
- Theology of Church Architecture (Archive)
- Theology of Church, Ecclesiology
- Theology, Church Leadership Philosophies
- Theology of Church Finances
- Theology of Church Governance
- Theology of Evangelism
- Theology of Giving and Financial Stewardhip
- Theology of Leadership
- Theology of Ministry Call
- Theology of Ministry Teams (Staff, Leader)
- Theology of Ministry Teams (Congreational)
- Theology of Mission
- Theology, Pastoral
- Theology of Pastoral Care
- Theology of Pastoral Counseling
- Theology of Self-Care
- Theology of Social Ministry
- Theology of Spiritual Gifts
- Theology of Spiritual Revival