Great Leader, Great Teacher Recovering the Biblical Vision for Leadership

So many contemporary leadership philosophies, even within the church, are based on worldly examples of success. These methods force church leaders to become businesslike CEOs, dramatic visionaries, or savvy stategists abandoning their true calling as teachers. This book calls readers to be what the Bible empowers them to be, teachers who follow Christ's example of leading by serving, suffering, and sacrificing for the sake of others.

DR. GARY J. BREDFELDT (M.A., Denver Seminary; Ph.D., Trinity International University) is
Professor of Leadership and Church Ministry at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He served
for eleven years on the faculty of Moody Bible Institute, and has also taught at Ontario Bible College
and Seminary, Indiana Wesleyan University and Lancaster Bible College Graduate School. Dr.
Bredfeldt has authored two widely used textbooks entitled, Creative Bible Teaching and Caring for
Souls: Counseling under the authority of Scripture. Dr. Bredfeldt has served as a Youth Pastor,
Minister of Christian Education, Executive Pastor and Senior Pastor in Colorado, Wisconsin, and
Illinois. He has been involved in three church planting efforts and is currently on the board of a new
church plant in the western suburbs of Chicago.