Leading by Story: Rethinking Church Leadership

There is a great deal of interest in churches across the UK, US and Europe about applying ideas from the world of leadership and management to Christian ministry. There are those who wish to apply (sometimes quite uncritically) mechanistic approaches which they hope will enable churches to be run in a more ‘business—like’ manner. There are also those who argue that insights from organizational studies have no place whatsoever in churches. This innovative and original book builds on qualitat...