Winter 1989

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As a pastor for fifteen years and a Church Growth consultant with the Charles E. Fuller Evangelistic Association for the last ten, Carl George has witnessed and worked with pastors, parishioners, and churches in crisis. He recommends the following selections.

The Making of a Leader by J. Robert Clinton, Navpress, 1988

Clinton's new book is the most significant application of leadership-development theory to Christian leaders yet written. His background as an electrical engineer and missionary equipped him well to enter his present post as assistant professor of leadership and extension at Fuller Theological Seminary. Clinton shows how crises in the developing leader's life are to be understood as tests or checks to determine whether the leader has learned the spiritual lessons necessary to be admitted into the next phase of broadening spiritual authority and influence.

The Integrity Crisis by Warren W. Wiersbe, Oliver-Nelson, 1988

Stung by the media scandals of Pearlygate, Wiersbe, general director and Bible teacher on "Back to the Bible" radio ministry, offers a wise essay to help today's churchmen and women regain their ethical balance. Drawing on the life of Nehemiah, but going far beyond a Bible exposition, Wiersbe offers his correctives to hastily conceived philosophies of life that lead eventually to disaster. This is good preaching and Bible study discussion material, more for preventing than recovering from crisis.

Resolving Church Conflicts by G. Douglas Lewis, Harper & Row, 1981

From his position as a pastoral educator and church consultant, Lewis has seen what happens in church crises. Crises are agonizing for some church people with a theology that forbids conflict as sub-Christian. Lewis summarizes theory and presents ...

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