Many otherwise well-trained pastors are often unprepared for actual leadership in the local church. Effective leaders must know how to provide direction, and the key to a leader's direction is one's mission. This new work on a crucial ministry topic—mission—is addressed by a recognized leader in the field. In his practival step-by-step style. Malphurs presents a development for eah ministry, and its implementation through a Carefully refined ministry strategy.
As Malphurs explains, “The act of leadership is fundamentally the act of articulating first a ministry mission statement and then pursuing it.…Therefore, the purpose of this book is to help you as leaders develop and articulate a definitive, well thought-out mission statement for your ministry.”
Aubrey Malphurs (Th.M., Ph.D., Dallas Theological Seminary) is president of Vision Ministries International and chairman of the Field Education Department at Dallas Theological Seminary. He has served as a pastor and church planter and is the author of numerous books in the areas of leadership, vision, and church ministry, including Ministry Nuts and Bolts: What They Don’t Teach Pastors in Seminary; Doing Church; and Developing a Dynamic Mission for Your Ministry.