Spiritual Leadership: Moving People on to God's Agenda, Revised and Expanded

Every page of this book is an eye opener. As an experienced leader, this book confirms so much of my personal leadership skills and spiritual wisdom that have brought me this far. I have learned from this book what it means to move people to where God wants to be, and it has redefined the purpose of my leadership. I’ve gained more spiritual insights in my journey and my prayer life has become more fulfilling. The details in each chapter and summary makes it easier to memorize the important lessons and understand the context of the material. Totally worth reading and 100 percent recommended.

This book's primary audience is evangelical Christian pastors with an additional audience of Christians who serve or wish to serve in leadership positions in their churches, businesses and families. If you are of a strongly secular mindset, the book's thesis that God works in the world today will seem naïve or alien to you and I suspect that you will have difficulty accepting, let alone absorbing, the principal message of the book.The book examines a very wide range of leaders, both Christian and non-Christian, including Lee Iacocca, Napoleon, Henry VIII, Abraham Lincoln and Dwight L. Moody, for example. The authors focus on leadership in churches, businesses and families, but does not look intently at leadership in the realm of political campaigns and looks at political governance only at a high level. The book provides practical guidance on the challenges of leading, and sometimes failing, in churches, businesses and families. Financial gain, ego needs and sexual improprieties may, and do, adversely impact Christian leaders. How some, Billy Graham for instance, have avoided these downfalls are reviewed in the book. The book offers advice on team building and managing one's schedule to focus on the important matters, which includes the leader's family, which sometimes are not the most urgent.The book offers a great deal of practical advice on many aspects of leadership. The book is well written, but it isn't particularly short. If avoids the usual business book failure of providing one insight that takes 20-30 pages and then repeating that insight 5 or 6 times to have a book. You will need to engage the book to realize its message. God works on earth through humans and humans need leaders. Leaders face special challenges and the Blackabys offer scholarly insight on what makes effective leaders for God's work. I recommend the book.

This is an revised and expanded version of the older ones from years prior.......plus there's some new material in it too. Overall it's still an excellent leadership book to read and learn from in one's every day aspects of one's life whether you're Christian or non-Christian.. But as a Christian leaders go through this book, you will learn something and even may learn something about yourself in the process. Even though this is geared toward a Christian beliefs or even if you're not a Christian, this is still a great book for leadership roles on the job as well. If you take your time and go through this book, you will learn something and it will help you in your daily life..

A very insightful book detailing the Biblical view of genuine leadership under the authority of Jesus Christ. There are many personal testimonies given in the book to bring life to the message of the Bible about leadership - both success stories and failures. Worthy read and worthy application in anyone's life - mature believer or a new believer for life's challenges whether at work or home.

Leadership is not about skill. It's not about what seminars you can attend. It's about a calling. It's about character. The greatest leaders we can think of did not have storybook beginnings. They did not do everything right. They did not win every battle. They made lots of mistakes.Leadership is one of the most misunderstood capabilities or attributes. There are myriad books on the subject. Each one seems to address only a facet of it. Blackaby addresses it from the ground up -- God's design for each of us. Each chapter contains practical examples. The information shared is ready to apply to business, church, or personal situations.

Great price - arrived as described. Book had some highlighting, but overall in good condition

Could have said the same in half the book.

This book is extremely beneficial to me. As a young leader, this book is very helpful in giving leadership training.

This is an amazing and practical book about Spiritual leadership! In this book you can find practical steps to be more effective to lead people to God’s agenda! You should read it!

Great resource for those in leadership who want to consider the examples of those in the Bible.

Este libro ha cambiado mi forma de ver el liderazgo cristiano. Henry Blackaby y su hijo han definido bíblicamente la meta, el motivo, la razón de liderar. Su forma de explicarse y su base bíblica se juntan para dar una claridad al tema que no he visto nunca. Simplifica y facilita la labor de un dirigente cristiano. Su carga es ligera y Su yugo es fácil y así debe ser la labro de un líder cristiano. Muy recomendable.

This book was part of my readings for my postgraduate studies. I had a hard copy which I couldn’t mark so I bought the kindle book to highlight to my hearts content. The books provides great insight for a Christian leader. The author uses Christian and secular example of great historic leaders to deliver his ideas. This is not the only book I had ready by Blackaby. I enjoy his writing and would recommend this book

Kindle edition of a book, being used for study. It's a great resource for me, informative and well written. And I've discovered the utility of the Kindle edition for being able to insert references direct from the Kindle app to an assignment.