Leadership Lifestyle: Study of 1 Timothy

by Ajith Fernando

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0842321306
• ISBN13: 9780842321303
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Tyndale House Pub
• Length: 171 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A book on leadership by a proven leader

A book of passion and practicality, Leadership Lifestyle examines the book of 1 Timothy from the perspective of discipleship and leadership development. Fernando explains in the preface, "To learn how Paul made disciples, I lived in 1 Timothy for more than one and a half years." This book is the fruit of this extended time of study and meditation. Leighton Ford writes in his foreword, "Every leader should be asking: `Who is going to take my place? Who is God raising up? How can I encourage the coming leaders?'" To these and other questions, Fernando brings his usual combination of keen insight, multicultural perspective, and intensely practical application. At the end of each chapter are questions for personal application which are effectively designed to help the reader take stock of personal strengths and weaknesses and develop a plan for personal development. Chapters include such subjects as "Leadership as Parenthood," "The Vision of Grace," "How to Respond to False Teaching," and "Possessions: Keeping the Right Attitude."Leadership Lifestyle is neither a self-help book, nor a manual on administration or program development. Rather, it is a challenge to discipleship and leadership development in the tradition of J. Oswald Sanders' Spiritual Leadership and Walter A. Henrichsen's Disciples Are Made Not Born. Those who are looking for exegetical resources on 1 Timothy might consider the commentaries of J. N. D. Kelly or Homer A. Kent, Jr. on the Pastoral Epistles.