Rowland Forman - The Leadership Baton: An Intentional Strategy for Developing Leaders in Your Church

P RAISE FOR T HE L EADERSHIP B ATON

No vision for leadership development proves to be more holistic and effective than church-based training. While many have seen the need for anchoring the training of future church leaders in the church, no one I know has been as dedicated to finding a workable model as this capable team of Forman, Jones, and Miller. This is not a theory that might work but one that has worked in the various churches these men have led. The church worldwide will be stronger as a result of applying the principles of The Leadership Baton.

RANDY FRAZEE, author
of The Connecting Church
and Making Room for Life

What a thrill to read this book! It has been written by men who have served alongside meand each otherin developing what we believe is a biblical and practical strategy for developing leaders in the local church. What they write is not just theory; they are practitioners. Though at various stages along the way I have been their mentor, all three authors have served as key leaders in my own life.

GENE A. GETZ, pastor emeritus,
Fellowship Bible Church North,
Plano, Texas

Three church-wise practitioners place the emphasis for leadership development precisely where it belongson the local church! A highly practical, biblically sound approach to what we must be aboutthe training of church leaders.

AUBREY MALPHURS, author
of Being Leaders
and Church Next

The Leadership Baton is a manual on developing godly church leaders written by three men who are committed to the spiritual health of the local church. Forman, Jones, and Miller are not armchair leaders. Their lives intersect with church life at every turn. This book reflects their passion to help every church leader impact followers by using biblical principles.

ELIZABETH INRIG, national director
of womens ministries,
Evangelical Free Church of America

In one volume the authors have identified and responded to a myriad of leadership training issues. The result is a highly practical and comprehensive blueprint for leadership development in the local church. Inspirational and challenging reading!

BRIAN KEANE, senior pastor,
Edwardstown Baptist Church,
Adelaide, South Australia

In recent decades weve witnessed the rediscovery of church-based evangelism, community, and spirituality. Now, thanks to resources like TheLeadership Baton, church-based leadership development is no longer an idle dreamit is becoming an emerging reality.

BILL DONAHUE, author of
Leading Life-Changing
Small Groups

The Leadership Baton pioneers the much-needed integration of character development, academic studies, and grassroots experience in the formation of leaders for our churches. This is a very practical, helpful book, authored by people who have effectively worked out in their own experience everything theyve written about.

JIM PETERSEN, author of
Living Proof and
Church Without Walls

After interacting with the authors for over a decade, I know firsthand their praiseworthy passion, portable principles, and persistent practice related to developing leadership in the local church. Apply the teaching of this book, and you will ensure the maturing of your local church and the expansion of Christs kingdom on earth throughout the next generation.

LEROY R. ARMSTRONG, JR., senior pastor,
St. John Missionary Baptist Church,
Dallas, Texas

This new movement known as church-based training promises to return Christian ministry to biblical patterns of leadership development. TheLeadership Baton shows how to develop leaders within the church for ministry in the twenty-first century.

KERBY ANDERSON, president,
Probe Ministries

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The LEADERSHIP BATON
Copyright 2004 by Rowland Forman, Jeff Jones, and Bruce Miller

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Forman, Rowland, 1943

The leadership baton : an intentional strategy for developing leaders in your church/Rowland Forman, Jeff Jones, and Bruce Miller.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN-13: 978-0-310-31557-5
1. Christian leadership. 2. LeadershipReligious aspectsChristianity. I. Jones, Jeff, 1966- II. Miller, Bruce, 1961- III. Title

BV652.1 . F63 2004
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To Gene Getz,
who has inspired us and encouraged us
to put these ideas into practice and then into writing. Gene serves as an amazing model
of godly leadership
for Christs church. His teachable spirit, genuine faith, and compassionate love
compel our loyalty and respect. Gene is the real thing in private as well as in public.

The things you have heard me say in the presence of manywitnesses entrust to reliable men who will also be qualified to teachothers.

2 TIMOTHY 2:2 NIV

You have heard me teach many things that have been confirmedby many reliable witnesses. Teach these great truths to trustworthypeople who are able to pass them on to others.

2 TIMOTHY 2:2 NLT

Pass on what you heard from methe whole congregation sayingAmen!to reliable leaders who are competent to teach others.

2 TIMOTHY 2:2 THE MESSAGE

You should teach people whom you can trust the things you and