Leadership Journal Selects Baker Publishing Group Titles as Best Books for Church Leaders
Leadership Journal has selected two Baker Publishing Group titles as the best books for church leaders in 2014: Next by William Vanderbloemen and Warren Bird, and Kingdom Conspiracy by Scot McKnight. Both Next and Kingdom Conspiracy were chosen as best books in the Leader’s Outer Life category, which focuses on what leaders do. For a complete list of Leadership Journal’s Best Books of 2014, please visit http://www.christianitytoday.com/le/2015/winter/leadership-journal-book-awards.html.
Through case studies, interviews, and real-time research, the authors of Next: Pastoral Succession That Works (Baker Books; ISBN 9780801016479; ebook ISBN 9781441246578; $21.99) demystify successful pastoral succession and help readers prepare for an even brighter future for their ministry.
“This should be required reading for senior leaders everywhere,” states Dr. James Every White, the founding and senior pastor of Mecklenburg Community Church in North Carolina. “Succession is going to have to happen—this book will help it happen well.”
In Kingdom Conspiracy: Returning to the Radical Mission of the Local Church (Brazos Press; ISBN 9781587433603; ebook ISBN 9781441221476; $21.99), McKnight offers a sizzling biblical corrective and a fiercely radical vision for the role of the local church in the kingdom of God.
“The implications of Kingdom Conspiracy will move you to practice what it teaches,” says Derwin Gray, the founding and lead pastor of Transformation Church in South Carolina. “This is essential reading for the church in a post-Christian America.”
Every year, Leadership Journal’s contributing editors sort through numerous books on leadership to identify the very best books for church leaders. Each of the books selected will strengthen readers both in competence and character as they serve in their leadership roles.
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