Organic Leadership: Leading Naturally Right Where You Are
Grow more leaders for a greater harvest!

What are the weeds that hinder the natural growth of godly leadership? Are programs, people, and money truly the signs of a successful church? Where can you find an unlimited source of leaders? How do you mentor leaders so that they multiply? In Organic Leadership Neil Cole asks these questions and more, boldly challenging many of the ideas about leadership and church life that we all take for granted. Then he reveals how to grow leaders that multiply naturally.

"It has been a very long time since I've read a book on leadership that moved me. Neil takes the person, the context, and God's Word, and mixes them in a powerful way for a life of leadership."--Bob Roberts Jr., senior pastor, Northwood Church; author, Transformation and Glocalization

"Organic Leadership will trouble you--but more importantly, it will challenge you. And you should read it because the church could use some troubling and a new challenge."--Ed Stetzer, author and researcher

"A prophetic call for a more discipleship-based, grassroots, and inspirational form of leadership in our time."--Alan Hirsch, author, The Forgotten Ways and ReJesus; co-founder, shapevine.com

"Neil isn't afraid to examine presuppositions that can paralyze the church."--Dave Gibbons, author, The Monkey and the Fish

"You will find insights and tools to help you and your church expand your kingdom reach."--Bob Buford, founder, Leadership Network; author, Halftime and Finishing Well


Neil Cole is the founder and executive director of Church Multiplication Associates (cmaresources.org), which has catalyzed the start of thousands of churches around the world. He is an international speaker and the author of Organic Church and Search & Rescue. He and his family live in California.
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Organic Leadership: Leading Naturally Right Where You Are
Grow more leaders for a greater harvest!

What are the weeds that hinder the natural growth of godly leadership? Are programs, people, and money truly the signs of a successful church? Where can you find an unlimited source of leaders? How do you mentor leaders so that they multiply? In Organic Leadership Neil Cole asks these questions and more, boldly challenging many of the ideas about leadership and church life that we all take for granted. Then he reveals how to grow leaders that multiply naturally.

"It has been a very long time since I've read a book on leadership that moved me. Neil takes the person, the context, and God's Word, and mixes them in a powerful way for a life of leadership."--Bob Roberts Jr., senior pastor, Northwood Church; author, Transformation and Glocalization

"Organic Leadership will trouble you--but more importantly, it will challenge you. And you should read it because the church could use some troubling and a new challenge."--Ed Stetzer, author and researcher

"A prophetic call for a more discipleship-based, grassroots, and inspirational form of leadership in our time."--Alan Hirsch, author, The Forgotten Ways and ReJesus; co-founder, shapevine.com

"Neil isn't afraid to examine presuppositions that can paralyze the church."--Dave Gibbons, author, The Monkey and the Fish

"You will find insights and tools to help you and your church expand your kingdom reach."--Bob Buford, founder, Leadership Network; author, Halftime and Finishing Well


Neil Cole is the founder and executive director of Church Multiplication Associates (cmaresources.org), which has catalyzed the start of thousands of churches around the world. He is an international speaker and the author of Organic Church and Search & Rescue. He and his family live in California.
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Grow more leaders for a greater harvest!

What are the weeds that hinder the natural growth of godly leadership? Are programs, people, and money truly the signs of a successful church? Where can you find an unlimited source of leaders? How do you mentor leaders so that they multiply? In Organic Leadership Neil Cole asks these questions and more, boldly challenging many of the ideas about leadership and church life that we all take for granted. Then he reveals how to grow leaders that multiply naturally.

"It has been a very long time since I've read a book on leadership that moved me. Neil takes the person, the context, and God's Word, and mixes them in a powerful way for a life of leadership."--Bob Roberts Jr., senior pastor, Northwood Church; author, Transformation and Glocalization

"Organic Leadership will trouble you--but more importantly, it will challenge you. And you should read it because the church could use some troubling and a new challenge."--Ed Stetzer, author and researcher

"A prophetic call for a more discipleship-based, grassroots, and inspirational form of leadership in our time."--Alan Hirsch, author, The Forgotten Ways and ReJesus; co-founder, shapevine.com

"Neil isn't afraid to examine presuppositions that can paralyze the church."--Dave Gibbons, author, The Monkey and the Fish

"You will find insights and tools to help you and your church expand your kingdom reach."--Bob Buford, founder, Leadership Network; author, Halftime and Finishing Well


Neil Cole is the founder and executive director of Church Multiplication Associates (cmaresources.org), which has catalyzed the start of thousands of churches around the world. He is an international speaker and the author of Organic Church and Search & Rescue. He and his family live in California.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781441203861
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Publication date: 02/01/2010
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 320
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Neil Cole is the founder and executive director of Church Multiplication Associates, an organization that has helped catalyze the start of more than a thousand churches around the world. He is the author of Organic Church and Search & Rescue.

Table of Contents

Foreword Reggie McNeal 9

Preface: Live the Adventure 11

Acknowledgements 17

Introduction: A Fate Worse than Failure 19

Section 1 The Counterfeit Kingdom of Outside In: Weeds That Infiltrate the Garden of Christian Leadership

1 On Being Institutionalized: Depending on the Walls That Imprison You 33

2 Slaves Are Made in Such Ways: The Corruption of Christian Leadership 45

3 Pharisaism Today: Protecting the Powerful 56

4 Still in the Dark Ages: Contributing to Ignorance in the Name of Scholarship 74

5 Bound by he Chain of Command: Messed Up from Top to Bottom 85

6 Viewing Life Through Faulty Lenses: False Dichotomies That Obscure Our Vision of Reality 97

7 Parasites on the Body of Christ: Why Some Ministers Suck...Literally! 113

Section 2 The Inside-out Kingdom: Growing Leadership from Within

8 The Secret Source of Leaders: Or, Where We start Makes All the Difference 129

9 Organically Grown Leaders: Healthy Leadership Emergency 140

10 Leadership Success: Goals of Organic Leadership 149

Section 3 The Upside-down Kingdom: Navigating a Correct Leaderships Trajectory

11 The New "Up" is"Down": The Paradoxical Kingdom 160

12 Lead, Follow, and Get Out of the Way: Authority Worth Following 175

13 Downwardly Mobile: Following Christ to Humility and Exaltation 184

14 Incarnational Leadership: Christ's Life you 196

Section 4 The Side-by-Side Kingdom: Receipts for Homegrown Leadership

15 Knowledge Is Not Power: Holistic Leadership Development and Theological Education 207

16 The Secret to Leading Leaders: Following a Middle School Master 220

17 Wax On and Wax Off:Life-on-Life Mentoring Skills 232

18 Catalysts for Real Change: Leadership Tools that Multiply Impact 253

Section 5 The Plugged-in Kingdom: The Life, Power, and Provision in God's Upside-down Kingdom

19 Embrace Death as if Your Life Depends on It: The Cure for All That Ails Us 269

20 Jesus and the man-Purse: Payment for Service in the Church 280

Conclusion: Rare Heroes for a New Day 293

Notes 305

Index 309

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