Accountable Leadership
By: Paul Chaffee
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Accountable Leadership - By: Paul Chaffee

Accountable Leadership

By: Paul Chaffee
Wiley / 1997 / Hardcover
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As you've discovered, being a pastor is much more than preaching every Sunday morning. You're faced with all sorts of legal, financial, and ethical questions. This guidebook offers you expert counsel on the most critical issues facing pastors and congregations---creating an effective governing board, stewardship and financial planning, avoiding clergy misconduct, and much more. 250 pages, hardcover from Jossey-Bass.

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Title: Accountable Leadership
By: Paul Chaffee
Format: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 250
Vendor: Wiley
Publication Date: 1997
Dimensions: 9 X 6 (inches)
Weight: 13 ounces
ISBN: 0787903647
ISBN-13: 9780787903640
Stock No: WW90364

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With reports of financial impropriety and clergy misconduct makingheadlines, accountable leadership and sound management practiceshave become priority concerns in congregations of every faith.Accountable Leadership speaks to congregation leaders, both clergyand laity, and to individuals who love the worshiping community andseek the tools that can enable everyone in it to better care forone another.

This is a practical compAndium of resources for creating andmanaging a sound, effective, and fair congregation. This newedition has been extensively revised and updated to includecontemporary topics such as disturbing trAnds in reduced giving,new church-state issues, clergy misconduct and troublesome members,and legal issues associated with the congregation's role asemployer and provider of pastoral counseling.

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"This book filled an important gap in congregational studies whenit was first published, and four years later this much enlargededition is even better. In a world where church finances, law, andethics are so much more complicated than ever, leaders can't affordto be without it." --Loren Meade, founder, The AlbanInstitute

"This book is a plea for congregational leaders to be competent,informed, accountable, and in touch with contemporary reality.Reading it will enrich both the life and the ministry of everyleader who accepts the need to be accountable. It is an ideal studybook to be read by every member of the governing board." --Lyle E.Schaller, Church Consultant

"Chaffee is thorough, reasonable, and pastoral in his approach toan important subject rarely covered adequately in a seminary."--Your Church

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