Pastoral ministry is challenging work, especially when a pastor ignores the church's "congregational culture" when seeking to minister to church members or implement changes. Just as a pastor studies to interpret the Scriptures in order to understand and preach the Bible, he or she must interpret the local church culture to better understand and move it toward accomplishing its mission and vision.
In Look Before You Lead, trusted church leadership expert Aubrey Malphurs shows pastors how to read their church's unique local culture, how to change or revitalize it, and even how to combine two cultures when one church adopts another. This unique resource approaches leadership and discernment from a solid, biblical perspective and includes a number of helpful appendixes, such as a behavior, belief, and a values audit, that are key to reading and understanding the culture.
- ISBN10 0801015073
- ISBN13 9780801015076
- Publish Date 15 February 2013
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Baker Publishing Group
- Imprint Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group
- Format Paperback
- Pages 272
- Language English