Steve Cuss - Managing Leadership Anxiety: Yours and Theirs

Anxiety may be one of the main reasons many pastors leave the ministry.... Steve offers a helpful, gospel approach to managing leadership anxiety. This is a book we all need to read.

RON EDMONDSON, CEO, Leadership Network

Steve Cuss leads you on a journey of discovery and practical approach that will literally change your relationship with worry and anxiety. Every parent and leader needs this book.

SHERRY SURRATT, executive director of parent strategies, Orange

Leadership isnt just what you do; its who you are. Steve Cuss helps us develop that part of who we are that handles (or mishandles) anxiety. This book equips you for those moments when you realize things are beyond your direct control.

MARSHALL SHELLEY, director, Doctor of Ministry program, Denver Seminary

How we manage anxiety matters, and Steve provides wisdom for every one of us navigating the invisible forces impacting our work and our health.

REV. CHUCK DEGROAT, PhD, professor of Pastoral Care and Christian Spirituality, Western Theological Seminary

Anxiety draws us into a downward spiral. We need outside help to break in and redirect our vision. Steve Cuss offers us that kind of fresh, honest voice to snap us out of the downward spiral. Not only will we become less anxious, well become more whole, hopeful, and fruitful. A much-needed resource for the church in these anxious times.

MANDY SMITH, author, The Vulnerable Pastor; pastor, University Christian Church

Through guided personal reflection and system analysis, Steve imparts wisdom that will help leaders last and churches thrive. This will be a book our team works through!

GLENN PACKIAM, lead pastor, New Life Downtown, NewLifeChurch.org

This is a brilliant book. One to slowly digest and share with your team.

JUD WILHITE, senior pastor, Central Church; author, Uncaged; and

LORI WILHITE, founder, Leading and Loving It; author, My Name Is Victorious

Steve has brought to the surface things that I have never read in any other leadership books.

DON WILSON, senior pastor, Christs Church of the Valley, Accelerate Group

Steve compares anxiety with tangled fishing line, an impossible mess. Impossible, that is, until you learn a few basic techniques to unpick things, one little bit at a time. This is a book to kickstart that process. This is a book that is the equivalent of the expert untangler, speaking softly and confidently in your ear, not that one; this one.

DR. CONRAD GEMPF, lecturer in New Testament at London School of Theology; author, Jesus Asked and How to Like Paul Again

I have seen the power of genograms and differentiation in my own life. Steve takes these and many other tools to help us enter the world of noticing and moving through internal anxiety and group dynamics. This book is a great primer for anyone trying to grow in their understanding of how to lead in the anxious world we live in.

JAY PATHAK, pastor, Mile High Vineyard; coauthor, The Art of Neighboring

I have struggled with anxiety all my life, and the only way I have learned to live with it is not to fight it away, but to invite God to be with me in it. That is exactly what Steve Cuss helps you to do in this book. This book will be a great guide as you walk with others and with your own mind on the hard road worn by anxiety into deeper and deeper freedom.

LAURA TURNER, journalist

If you want to grow as a leader, then Managing Leadership Anxiety is a must-read. The principles laid out in this book are responsible for the transformation of many of the leaders in my own community. Steve is the real deal as he is a practitioner as well as a thought leader.

DAVE RUNYON, coauthor, The Art of Neighboring

Steve Cuss clearly identifies the reality of emotional undercurrents in ourselves and others that stonewall connection and real progress. Steve is a needed voice among leaders today. If you want to build a culture of trust, connection, and impact in your home or organization, then you need to read this book.

DAVE DUMMITT, lead pastor, 2|42 Community Church; cofounder, GYVE

Every Christian will benefit from reading this book. Pastors, seminarians, and congregational leaders will find this an especially helpful resource.

JIM HERRINGTON, author and founder, The Leaders Journey

If you have been entrusted with the responsibility of leading any group of people, you owe it to yourself and to them to read this insightful book.

LUKE NORSWORTHY, pastor, author, and podcaster

In Managing Leadership Anxiety Steve helps us look under the hood and not only trouble shoot but repair the often overlooked sources of anxiety in us as leaders, the teams we lead, and the organizations we serve.

GENE APPEL, senior pastor, Eastside Christian Church, Anaheim, California

Steve Cuss is an authentic pastor and a tremendous leader. Hes been one of my go-tos when I have anxious seasons. The principles he shares will become tools that you return to again and again.

CALEB KALTENBACH, founder, The Messy Grace Group; author, Messy Grace

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ISBN 978-1-4002-1089-3 (eBook)

ISBN 978-1-4002-1088-6 (TP)

Epub Edition February 2019 9781400210893

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Cuss, Steve, 1971-author.

Title: Managing leadership anxiety : yours and theirs / Steve Cuss.

Description: Nashville : Thomas Nelson, [2019] | Includes bibliographical references. |

Identifiers: LCCN 2018031236 (print) | LCCN 2018051465 (ebook) | ISBN 9781400210893 (e-book) | ISBN 9781400210886 | ISBN 9781400210893 (eBook)

Subjects: LCSH: Leadership--Religious aspects--Christianity. | Leadership. | Anxiety--Religious aspects--Christianity.