Product Information

Author / Ajith Fernando

Foreword by / Leighton Ford

ISBN / 9789834386917

Publisher / PVM Harvest Resources by special arrangement with and permission of Ajith Fernando

Publication Date / 1985

Format / Paperback (Soft Cover)

Language / English

Number of Pages / 176

Dimensions / 21 x 15 x 1 cm

Weight / 250 g

Author Description

Ajith Fernando (ThM, Fuller Theological Seminary) is the teaching director of Youth for Christ in Sri Lanka after serving as the ministry's national director for thirty-five years. He and his wife, Nelun, are active in a church ministering primarily to the urban poor, and his ministry includes counseling and mentoring younger staff and pastors. He is the author of twenty books published in twenty-four languages. Ajith lives in Colombo, Sri Lanka, with his wife, and they have two adult children and four grandchildren.

Product Description

The church today needs leaders—men and women who are more than just managers of people, money, and organizational charts.

In our pursuit of growth and prosperity, we may have lost sight of clear biblical principles of how we should find and train leaders for the church and the world. From the timeless Book, the Bible, come timely answers! The author, Ajith Fernando, a third-world Christian, examines principles of leadership taught in the letters to Timothy from the Apostle Paul, the leader of leaders. The philosophies and principles drawn from the Bible, applicable to every generation, might surprise some people today.

This book is destined to be a trendsetter, a clear call to a return to the biblical perspective of leadership—which is not corporate management but leadership drawn from the models of parenthood and servanthood.

Contents

1 / Leadership as Parenthood (1:2, 3)

2 / The Vision of Grace (1:11-17)

3 / Instruction and Discipling (1:18-20)

4 / Aspiring to Leadership (3:2, 3, 7)

5 / A Leader's Behavior (3:2, 3)

6 / The Leader's Family Life (3:2, 4-6)

7 / How to Respond to False Teaching (4:1-6)

8 / The Godliness of the Leader (4:7, 8)

9 / A Model Life (4:9-12)

10 / A Model Ministry (4:13-16b)

11 / The Leader's Relationships (5:1-16)

12 / Supervising Leaders (5:17-25)

13 / The Christian Attitude toward Possessions (6:5b-10)

14 / Possessions: Keeping the Right Attitude (6:17-19)