"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:
Jim Amandus
LeRoy Armstrong
Stuart Briscoe
Daniel Brown
Donald Bubna
Andre Bustanoby
Edward Dobson
David Goetz
Jack Hayford
Bill Hybels
Doug Jackson
Wayne Jacobsen
Speed Leas
Kevin Miller
Bob Moeller
Larry Osborne
Ben Patterson
Michael Phillips
Douglas Rumford
Norman Shawchuck
Marshall Shelley
Fred Smith
Chuck Swindoll
R. Steven Warner
Charles Wellington
