Your greatest season of leadership lies before you...
It's not your own noteworthy, public accomplishments that inspire and encourage those around you to run the race with excellence. It's the practical, moment-to-moment choices you make as their servant leader that God uses for spiritual growth and ministry deployment. Great leaders are willing to sacrifice ego, self-significance, and self-imagined importance in order to live downward into increasing effectiveness, no matter what it takes. It is the passionate, relentless commitment to learning this art that God uses to transform ordinary people into intentional leaders.
In Ultimately Responsible you'll find ideas and inspiration to help you:
- Identify and maximize leadership strengths
- Strategize and orchestrate a contagious ministry movement
- Turn inactive pew-sitters into passionate servants
- Effectively build and lead a paid or unpaid team
- Overcome inertia anchors and lead successful ministry change
The DVD includes worksheets to unpack and apply each topic to your specific setting as well as videos that provide real-life illustrations of the principles you're learning. You can train your whole team using the book and resources provided.
Sue Nilson Kibbey, the executive pastor at Ginghamsburg Church in Tipp City, Ohio, coordinates senior management staff activities and serves as the team leader of all adult, student, and children's ministries. She has been named on of the top ten church administrators in America (thechurchreport.com). An ordained elder in the United Methodist Church, Sue is also the author of Starting a Single Adult Ministry and creator of the Ministry by Strengths program.
"God needs someone to take responsibility for their acre in the mission field. That someone could be you. Your team could be the decisive link in God's plan...if you are ready to accept ultimate responsibility."
Tom Bandy
President of Easum Bandy and Associates
Author of Christian Chaos: Revolutionizing Congregational Organization
"I am excited by Ultimately Responsible and have recommended it to our district superintendents. Many clergy tend to be shepherding types who need strengthening in the areas of strategy and vision, so the tips on strategy are helpful."
Sally Dyck
United Methodist bishop, Minnesota Annual Conference
