NCD: Empowering Leadership
Empowering Leadership is lay and clergy leadership that supports, mentors and encourages the leadership of others. Some questions to ask about empowering leadership are:
- How do your church's leaders develop new leaders rather than just new followers?
- How do your leaders recruit and train apprentice or beginning leaders?
- How do your leaders encourage and support change, even change that diminishes their authority or importance?
- How are your church leaders more like spiritual leaders rather than organizational or business leaders?
Some helpful resources for developing your leadership skills include:
- Multiple resources by Lovett Weems (www.churchleadership.com)
- In the Name of Jesus by Henri Nouwen
- Leadership and the New Science by Margaret Wheatley
- AquaChurch 2.0: Piloting Your Church by Leonard Sweet (www.leonardsweet.com)
- Church of the Resurrection Leadership Development Set (or visit them at www.cor.org)
- Christianity Today Building Church Leaders resource pages at www.christianitytoday.com/bcl
8 Quality Characteristics of Natural Church Development
- Empowering Leadership
- Gift-Based Ministries
- Passionate Spirituality
- Effective Structures
- Inspiring Worship
- Holistic Small Groups
- Need-Oriented Evangelism
- Loving Relationships
- back to Natural Church Development
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- Church Assessment
- Training Events
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- Congregational Development News
- Curtis' Blog
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