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Leading with the Sermon: Preaching as Leadership (Working Preacher, 2)

Paperback |English |1506456375 | 9781506456379

Leading with the Sermon: Preaching as Leadership (Working Preacher, 2)

Paperback |English |1506456375 | 9781506456379
Overview

In this addition to the new Working Preacher Books series, prolific author William H. Willimon makes the compelling case that two key pastoral tasks--preaching and leadership--complement, correct, strengthen, and inform one another. Preaching is the distinctive function of pastoral leaders. Leadership of the church, particularly during a challenging time of transition in mainline Protestantism, has become a pressing concern for pastors.

This book shows how the practices, skills, and intentions of Christian preaching can be helpful to the leadership of a congregation. It will also show how leadership is an appropriate expectation for sermons. In preaching, pastoral leaders can help a congregation face its problems and coordinate its God-given resources to address those problems. Sermons can be an opportunity to articulate, motivate, and orchestrate God's people in doing God's work in the church and in the world.

Leading with the Sermon includes chapters on why pastors must be leaders, why preaching is such an essential task in telling the truth about the gospel, how preaching makes better leaders, and how better leaders make better preachers.

ISBN: 1506456375
ISBN13: 9781506456379
Author: William H. Willimon
Publisher: Fortress Press
Format: Paperback
PublicationDate: 2020-02-04
Language: English
PageCount: 192
Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.5 x 8.4 inches
Weight: 8.0 ounces

In this addition to the new Working Preacher Books series, prolific author William H. Willimon makes the compelling case that two key pastoral tasks--preaching and leadership--complement, correct, strengthen, and inform one another. Preaching is the distinctive function of pastoral leaders. Leadership of the church, particularly during a challenging time of transition in mainline Protestantism, has become a pressing concern for pastors.

This book shows how the practices, skills, and intentions of Christian preaching can be helpful to the leadership of a congregation. It will also show how leadership is an appropriate expectation for sermons. In preaching, pastoral leaders can help a congregation face its problems and coordinate its God-given resources to address those problems. Sermons can be an opportunity to articulate, motivate, and orchestrate God's people in doing God's work in the church and in the world.

Leading with the Sermon includes chapters on why pastors must be leaders, why preaching is such an essential task in telling the truth about the gospel, how preaching makes better leaders, and how better leaders make better preachers.

Editorial Reviews

Will Willimon's argument connecting preaching and leadership is fundamental to ministry. Preaching and leadership is as basic as connecting hearing and doing. The encounter with Christ is meant to change people and communities. 'The word preached leads to the word performed.' Worthy stuff in a church often unsure of its connection to God's presence and power. --Gil Rendle, author of Quietly Courageous: Leading the Church in a Changing World

I believe that you have to love your people enough to preach the gospel to them--honestly, courageously, and, yes, prophetically. Will Willimon believes that, too, and says every pastor should lead by preaching. In these times, in particular, we need preachers who will preach the truth of Jesus Christ--all of it. --Jim Wallis, founder and editor-in-chief, Sojourners

Will Willimon is right: to preach is to lead. Preachers, read and be renewed in your calling to this wondrous work. --Bishop Hope Morgan Ward, North Carolina Conference, United Methodist Church

Willimon's passion for proclamation, his vivid storytelling, and his rich pastoral wisdom are evident on every page. --Angela Deener Hancock, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary

One of the great preachers of our time shows the intimate linkage between preaching and leadership, showing the synergies that emerge from seeing preaching as leadership. In an era when we desperately need our words to be appropriate to the Word, and to show the effects of those words in discipleship, Will Willimon charts an exciting and faithful path for preachers who lead, and leaders who preach! --L. Gregory Jones, Dean and Williams Distinguished Professor, Duke Divinity School

William Willimon keeps his eye firmly on what is too often forgotten: leading a congregation--together with its call, task and effectiveness--begins with the preaching with the Word of God. This book helpfully serves as an antidote to the widespread separation of pastoral preaching and leadership, as well as an immunization against the temptation to think of them more as personal accomplishments than gifts from God for the church. --Kimlyn J. Bender, author of Reading Karl Barth for the Church: A Guide and Companion


William H. Willimon is Dean of the Chapel and professor of Christian ministry at Duke University and the author of over thirty-seven books on preaching and ministry. He resides in Durham, North Carolina.

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Overview

In this addition to the new Working Preacher Books series, prolific author William H. Willimon makes the compelling case that two key pastoral tasks--preaching and leadership--complement, correct, strengthen, and inform one another. Preaching is the distinctive function of pastoral leaders. Leadership of the church, particularly during a challenging time of transition in mainline Protestantism, has become a pressing concern for pastors.

This book shows how the practices, skills, and intentions of Christian preaching can be helpful to the leadership of a congregation. It will also show how leadership is an appropriate expectation for sermons. In preaching, pastoral leaders can help a congregation face its problems and coordinate its God-given resources to address those problems. Sermons can be an opportunity to articulate, motivate, and orchestrate God's people in doing God's work in the church and in the world.

Leading with the Sermon includes chapters on why pastors must be leaders, why preaching is such an essential task in telling the truth about the gospel, how preaching makes better leaders, and how better leaders make better preachers.

ISBN: 1506456375
ISBN13: 9781506456379
Author: William H. Willimon
Publisher: Fortress Press
Format: Paperback
PublicationDate: 2020-02-04
Language: English
PageCount: 192
Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.5 x 8.4 inches
Weight: 8.0 ounces

In this addition to the new Working Preacher Books series, prolific author William H. Willimon makes the compelling case that two key pastoral tasks--preaching and leadership--complement, correct, strengthen, and inform one another. Preaching is the distinctive function of pastoral leaders. Leadership of the church, particularly during a challenging time of transition in mainline Protestantism, has become a pressing concern for pastors.

This book shows how the practices, skills, and intentions of Christian preaching can be helpful to the leadership of a congregation. It will also show how leadership is an appropriate expectation for sermons. In preaching, pastoral leaders can help a congregation face its problems and coordinate its God-given resources to address those problems. Sermons can be an opportunity to articulate, motivate, and orchestrate God's people in doing God's work in the church and in the world.

Leading with the Sermon includes chapters on why pastors must be leaders, why preaching is such an essential task in telling the truth about the gospel, how preaching makes better leaders, and how better leaders make better preachers.

Editorial Reviews

Will Willimon's argument connecting preaching and leadership is fundamental to ministry. Preaching and leadership is as basic as connecting hearing and doing. The encounter with Christ is meant to change people and communities. 'The word preached leads to the word performed.' Worthy stuff in a church often unsure of its connection to God's presence and power. --Gil Rendle, author of Quietly Courageous: Leading the Church in a Changing World

I believe that you have to love your people enough to preach the gospel to them--honestly, courageously, and, yes, prophetically. Will Willimon believes that, too, and says every pastor should lead by preaching. In these times, in particular, we need preachers who will preach the truth of Jesus Christ--all of it. --Jim Wallis, founder and editor-in-chief, Sojourners

Will Willimon is right: to preach is to lead. Preachers, read and be renewed in your calling to this wondrous work. --Bishop Hope Morgan Ward, North Carolina Conference, United Methodist Church

Willimon's passion for proclamation, his vivid storytelling, and his rich pastoral wisdom are evident on every page. --Angela Deener Hancock, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary

One of the great preachers of our time shows the intimate linkage between preaching and leadership, showing the synergies that emerge from seeing preaching as leadership. In an era when we desperately need our words to be appropriate to the Word, and to show the effects of those words in discipleship, Will Willimon charts an exciting and faithful path for preachers who lead, and leaders who preach! --L. Gregory Jones, Dean and Williams Distinguished Professor, Duke Divinity School

William Willimon keeps his eye firmly on what is too often forgotten: leading a congregation--together with its call, task and effectiveness--begins with the preaching with the Word of God. This book helpfully serves as an antidote to the widespread separation of pastoral preaching and leadership, as well as an immunization against the temptation to think of them more as personal accomplishments than gifts from God for the church. --Kimlyn J. Bender, author of Reading Karl Barth for the Church: A Guide and Companion


William H. Willimon is Dean of the Chapel and professor of Christian ministry at Duke University and the author of over thirty-seven books on preaching and ministry. He resides in Durham, North Carolina.

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Several types of goods are exempt from being returned. Perishable goods such as food, flowers, newspapers or magazines cannot be returned. We also do not accept products that are intimate or sanitary goods, hazardous materials, or flammable liquids or gases.

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  • Downloadable software products
  • Some health and personal care items

To complete your return, we require a tracking number, which shows the items which you already returned to us.
There are certain situations where only partial refunds are granted (if applicable)

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  • Any item not in its original condition, is damaged or missing parts for reasons not due to our error
  • Any item that is returned more than 30 days after delivery

Items returned to us as a result of our error will receive a full refund,some returns may be subject to a restocking fee of 7% of the total item price, please contact a customer care team member to see if your return is subject. Returns that arrived on time and were as described are subject to a restocking fee.

Items returned to us that were not the result of our error, including items returned to us due to an invalid or incomplete address, will be refunded the original item price less our standard restocking fees.

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