Elders Lead a Healthy Family

Shared Leadership for a Vibrant Church | Forward by Gary L. McIntosh

“Miller is a rare combination of theorist/practitioner, except when you're doing what you're writing about; then it stops being theory and starts becoming experience. I appreciate Joe's well-rounded approach to the subject of shared leadership. A heady piece with heart.”
– Peyton Jones,
West Region Catalyst, North American Mission Board

About My Book

Elders Lead a Healthy Family explores the biblical paradigm for shared leadership: elders as the spiritual "big brothers" and shepherds to the family of God. This book is a fresh biblical alternative to the standard fare of pragmatic church leadership. Delivered in a winsome and irenic style, the book addresses the key concerns of our day, including pastoral burnout, women as elders, women and the pastoral gift, power in leadership, abuse of power in ministry, ministerial pay, and fostering missional-leadership structures. The answer to so many of the problems facing the church is not more coaching or better education. The answer requires our churches to change the very structures that foster abuse, isolation, and burnout. If we hope to save our pastors, then we need our pastors to abandon the "pastor-as-CEO" model of leadership. If we want to reach the lost, we need a systemic change in the way we plant, grow, and maintain our churches. Instead of putting a solo leader at the top of "Church Incorporated," we need to build teams of elders, doing ministry together, as they lead the family of God.

"A refreshing alternative to the numerous familiar (and generally fruitless) attempts to baptize the pragmatic priorities of secular leadership theory into the waters of New Testament ecclesiology. . . . Elders Lead a Healthy Family ought to be required reading for vocational and nonvocational church leaders alike.”
– Joseph H. Hellerman
Author of When the Church Was a Family

Coaching

If you are interested in having me coach your church on building team of biblical elders, then send me a message.

"Elders Lead a Healthy Family provides an alternate model to help churches, and church leaders, embrace God's design of shared leadership."

-Benjamin L. Merkle, Author of 40 Questions about Elders

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"Miller has done a huge service for all tired pastors and leaders. He has written a wonderful book reminding us of the biblical blueprint of plurality leadership for the church."

-Benjamin C. Shin, Talbot School of Theology, Biola University

More Books

If you’d like to see what other book’s I’ve had published, you can track everything here on my author’s page.