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| Tables & Figures | |
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| Series Foreword | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Do We Really Want to Win? | |
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| Playing to Win Beats Playing Around | |
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| A reason to exist | |
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| The kind of leadership we need | |
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| Attracting and keeping leaders | |
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| A strategy for getting it done | |
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| The First Step is to Stop Defeating Ourselves | |
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| Problems of inward focus | |
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| Problems of anarchy | |
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| Problems of democracy | |
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| Problems of oligarchy | |
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| Problems of hierarchy | |
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| Three Basics Make a Game Worth Playing | |
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| The object of the game | |
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| The rules of the game | |
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| How to keep score | |
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| The accountable leadership strategy | |
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| Do We Understand the Game? | |
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| The Object of the Game Defines Responsibility | |
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| The source of our objective | |
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| Jesus's final word on the matter | |
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| Jesus's earlier mission statements | |
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| The acts of the (commissioned) apostles | |
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| Winning at the object of the game | |
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| The Rules of the Game Create Authority | |
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| A word of warning about rules | |
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| How boundaries work | |
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| Fair game | |
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| Breaking the rules | |
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| Changing the rules | |
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| Accountability is How We Keep Score | |
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| Safe and effective organization | |
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| When goals are reached | |
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| Statistics vs. wins | |
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| Interpretation and application | |
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| Win, lose, or draw | |
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| Do We Know What Position to Play? | |
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| Ministry is a Team Sport | |
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| Diversity on the team | |
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| Captain of the team | |
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| Training and coaching for the team | |
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| The Congregation Plays Ministry | |
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| Control vs. trust | |
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| Moving the world | |
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| Accountability | |
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| Official and otherwise | |
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| The Pastor Plays Leadership | |
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| The case for a primary leader | |
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| Character of the pastor as leader | |
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| Modes of leading for three arenas | |
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| Limitations of accountable leadership | |
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| The Board Plays Governance | |
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| The governance distinctive | |
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| Trustees for whom? | |
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| Defining the guiding principles | |
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| Keeping score and calling penalties | |
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| Supporting pastoral leadership | |
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| Keeping the board on track | |
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| The Staff Plays Management | |
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| Excellence of execution | |
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| A comprehensive staff | |
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| The pastor's team | |
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| Two degrees of separation | |
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| Investment, not expense | |
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| Do We Have the Right Equipment? | |
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| Organizational Documents Set Up the Game | |
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| Creating a corporate "pair o' docs" | |
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| Clarity about the bylaws | |
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| What the bylaws need to cover | |
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| How the bylaws need to be changed | |
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| How guiding principles authorize the pastor | |
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| Constructing the guiding principles | |
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| Mission principles | |
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| Boundary principles | |
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| Accountability principles | |
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| Schedules Keep the Game in Play | |
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| The influence of the annual calendar | |
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| Proportions of the meeting agenda | |
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| Process for training and selection | |
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| The wisdom of a transition plan | |
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| Affiliations Relate the Team to Its League | |
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| Winning in the congregational leagues | |
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| Winning in the presbyterian leagues | |
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| Winning in the episcopal leagues | |
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| Winning in the emerging leagues | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Annotated Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |