Book summaries
Leader’s Edge summaries: the argument of a book in a few minutes. Page 19 of 21 · 485 in all.
Exponential Organizations
This book highlights the changing business environment in which some companies have leveraged new technology to create exponential growth. It is based on research conducted by companies that have far outstripped linear growth.
Global Gospel
This book describes global Christianity and provides a framework for understanding the varied experiences of Christians around the world. Focusing on the five big continents of Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America, Jacobsen recounts their differing histories, contemporary experiences, and cultural…
Stretch
In this book the author contrasts two ways that people tend to see life and operate both personally and in their professional life. The first perspective he labels chasers and it describes people who are on a seemingly endless quest for resources.
Author Interview: Ken Wilson
Rarely do we have a book summary on a biography. However, the life and work of J. Christy Wilson should not be forgotten and needs to be re-introduced to a new generation of missionaries.
Where No One Has Heard
Rarely do we have a book summary on a biography. However, the life and work of J. Christy Wilson should not be forgotten and needs to be re-introduced to a new generation of missionaries. This is a biography of the humble, adventurous man of prayer who helped launch the Urbana missions conference, and pioneered…
Unoffendable
Giving up our “right” to be offended can be one of the most freeing, healthy, simplifying, relaxing, refreshing, stress-relieving, encouraging things we can do.
The Power of the Other
Dr. Cloud makes the argument that other people have much to do with your success in life and work. He frames his topic around 4 “corners” which are different types of people and relationships that either encourage or discourage us in our efforts.
A Supreme Desire to Please Him
This is an excellent companion to good biographies on the life of the venerated missionary pioneer Adoniram Judson, such as the classic, To The Golden Shore. No one has so deeply researched the spiritual life of Judson as Burns has done.
Training Missionaries
This book is written for people who train missionaries. Missionaries must 1) know God, 2) be able to relate well to other people, 3) understand and engage with another culture, and 4) be able to use the Bible in a way that informs all aspects of their lives and ministries.
Author Interview: Evan Burns
Missio Nexus’ leadership thoughtfully summarize books, giving you the Leader’s Edge to help inform, stimulate and provoke profitable discussion. The Author Interview is an informal…
Author Interview: Keith R. Anderson
Keith Anderson, president of The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology, states that spirituality is grounded in ordinary life experiences, and that we need to learn to listen to rhythms of life, narratives and creation itself.
Crossing Cultures in Scriptures
From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible is a crosscultural book. Scripture is full of narratives of God’s people crossing cultures in pursuit of God’s mission. Biblical texts shed light on mission dynamics: Sarah and Hagar functioning in an honor-shame culture, Moses as a multicultural leader, Ruth as a crosscultural…
The Inevitable
This book is from Kevin Kelly, one of the founders of Wired magazine, and is his prognostication of the technological advances that will affect our near-term future.
A Spirituality of Listening
Keith Anderson, president of The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology, states that spirituality is grounded in ordinary life experiences, and that we need to learn to listen to rhythms of life, narratives and creation itself.
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Todd Wilson is the founder of Exponential (exponential.org), a national non-profit organization that champions church multiplication and equips church multipliers. In this book Wilson meets Christians where they’re at, acknowledging the roots of their discontent and demonstrating how to move from inspiration and…
Mission in Motion
This book is the result of a qualitative research project on mobilization that collected data from around the globe. The text was analyzed and a broad set of results were gathered under the headings of perceptions of mobilization, items that accelerate mobilization, and finally, items that retard or impede…
Author Interview: Allen Hamlin, Jr.
This month we are presenting an in-depth look at the opposite side of leadership — i.e. followership. In this book Hamlin shares from his own experience how one can succeed as a follower by effectively serving in the second-rank.
Embracing Followership
This month we are presenting an in-depth look at the opposite side of leadership — i.e. followership. In this book Hamlin shares from his own experience how one can succeed as a follower by effectively serving in the second-rank.
Author Interview: Alan J. Roxburgh
This book is about the changing environment we live in and how we, as church leaders (and particularly denominational leaders) are failing to respond to the challenge.
Leadership Mosaic
Missio Nexus’ leadership thoughtfully summarize books, giving you the Leader’s Edge to help inform, stimulate and provoke profitable discussion. Summary Challenging the conventional wisdom about…
Structured for Mission
This book is about the changing environment we live in and how we, as church leaders (and particularly denominational leaders) are failing to respond to the challenge.
Humble Roots
This book is part theology of incarnation and part stroll through the fields and forest of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Anchored in the teaching of Jesus, Anderson explores how cultivating humility—not scheduling, strict boundaries, or increased productivity—leads to peace.
Author Interview: Jayson Georges
Compared to previous books on the subject, this book takes the understanding of honor-shame dynamics to another level. Every message bearer working in non-Western cultures needs to read and apply the insights and principles found in this book if they are to avoid the typical cultural bounders too often committed by…
Ministering in Honor Shame Cultures
Missio Nexus’ leadership thoughtfully summarize books, giving you the Leader’s Edge to help inform, stimulate and provoke profitable discussion. Summary Compared to previous books on…