People-Pleasing Pastors: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Approval-Motivated Leadership

book

by Charles Stone, InterVarsity Press, IL, 2014

Description

This resource identifies harmful patterns of people-pleasing and offers remedies for them, encouraging leaders to be honest upfront by communicating clearly.

Features

identifying people pleasing patterns, pastoral theology, neuroscience, systems theology

Recommended Audience

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Cost

Purchase as book or e-book

Practical Applications

Resolve people-pleasing patterns and avoid further miscommunication by using strategies detailed in the book.

Updated: January 08, 2025

About the Contributor

Tim Shapiro

President

Tim Shapiro is the Indianapolis Center’s president. He began serving the Center in 2003 after 18 years in pastoral ministry. For 14 years, Tim served Westminster Presbyterian Church in Xenia, Ohio. Prior to his pastorate at Westminster, he was pastor of Bethlehem Presbyterian Church in Logansport, Indiana. He holds degrees from Purdue University and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.

Tim’s interest in how congregations learn to do new things is represented in his book How Your Congregation Learns. After his extensive work on the Center’s Sacred Space initiative, Tim co-authored the book Holy Places: Matching Sacred Space with Mission and Message. He has also authored several articles, including Applying Positive Deviance and The Congregation of Theological Coherence.

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