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