Rowland Forman

The demand for quality leaders constantly outstrips the supply. If you’re a pastor, team leader, staff member, or board member, you’re always challenged with a leadership shortage. But what can you do about it? More than you’ve ever imagined. The Leadership Baton equips you with a solution that’s time-proven and right at hand: church-based leadership development. More and more churches are adopting it, and no wonder—the principles that made the early church such a spiritual powerhouse are just as effective today. Leadership was never a matter of institutional learning or professional expertise. Rather, starting with Jesus and his apostles, it involved seasoned leaders passing the baton to ordinary people right within the local body of believers. That same approach can help ensure your own church is never at a loss for dependable men and women to enter the leadership race with wisdom, vision and passion. Drawing on the field-tested expertise of the Center for Church Based Training, The Leadership Baton will help you get the leaders you need up and running, developing leadership qualities they can in turn hand off to other up-and-coming leaders. Part 1 casts a vision for church-based leadership training—not merely a program, but a leadership development culture based on biblical and historical foundations. Part 2 presents a whole-life approach to leadership development that is wisdom-based (through courses), relationship-based (through the church community), and personal (through mentoring). Part 3 describes a comprehensive plan for leadership development, then breaks it down to target the needs of governing boards, emerging leaders, pastoral staffs, and interns. With discussion questions at the end of each chapter, this book concludes with two appendices, including a self-inventory for church leaders to help them assess their personal strengths and weak areas that need development. Put the principles in The Leadership Baton to work with patience, and in time your church will never lack the right people at the right time to help it fulfill its kingdom mission.

A reflective meditation on the Apostle Paul's "thorn in the flesh." The Point of Your Thorns wrestles with the painful life-challenges we all face and points to the transformation we experience when we run into God's more than adequate arms of grace.

The Personal Reflection Guide is a companion to The Point of Your Thorns. It allows you to process what you have learned through four steps: Praying, Meditating, Processing and Mentoring. These steps will facilitate life-transformation as you seek to uncover purpose in your pain.

Mutual Mentoring for Life Transformation (by Rowland Forman) is a call to approach mentoring relationships to listen and learn, rather than merely tell and teach. It is an invitation to engage in relational slowing, allowing ample time for spiritual friendships to develop. It is also written to help church leaders move from a program-oriented approach to one where discipling is folded into every aspect of church life. This book is a comprehensive revision of The Lost Art of Lingering. To obtain your electronic or paperback version, order through EntrustSource.com