Effective Pastors for a New Century

Helping Leaders Strategize For Success

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Managment + marketing = ministry. Right? Wrong. "Sound theology and spiritual authenticity must be returned to the top of our agenda," contends James E. Means in this book about how church leaders can adapt to serve effectively in neopagan Western society. Each chapter thinks through one leadership issue and concludes with practical follow-through suggestions. Means critiques conventional wisdom and looks at what one leader can do to transform a congregation. Among key questions answered: Can the church be relevant, yet remain theologically faithful? What should a twenty-first century mission statement look like? How can pastors exercise transformational, rather than traditional, leadership? What does it take to be compentent in prayer, preaching, and teaching? What really stimulates revitalization?