Congregational leadership isn’t just one thing and can’t be done by just one person. In order to stay balanced and effective, leaders must learn to engage the complexity of both making individual disciples and mobilizing a group of people to engage a shared mission. We call this Two Feet Walking.
Conversation overview:
- Rapidly changing ministry contexts require complex leadership
- Two Feet Walking
- Ministry leadership as developing individual disciples to live missionally
- Being fully human – woundedness and flourishing
- Being people who can handle conflict well
Resources
Resources for deconstructing your first formation:
- Becoming a Healthier Pastor by Ronald Richardson
- An Introduction to Trauma for Leaders: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
- Quit Getting In Your Own Way
- Faithwalking
Resources for Skill Development:
- Being an Emotional Grown-up: Defined and Connected in an Emotionally Charged System
- Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, et. al.
- Leading in a Politically Charged Culture
- Managing Leadership Anxiety: Yours and Theirs by Steve Cuss
Resources for Coaching:
- An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization by Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey
- Coaching: The Art of Creating a Safe and Challenging Space
Resources for Skill Development:
Resources for Missional Living:
Resources for Skill Development:
- Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory by Tod Bolsinger
- The Gospel Next Door: Following Jesus Right Where You Are by Marty Troyer
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