Michael Fletcher - Empowering Leadership: How a Leadership Development Culture Builds Better Leaders Faster

PRAISE FOR EMPOWERING LEADERSHIP

Being an Ironman triathlete, Michael Fletcher knows that endurance is also the key to sustaining healthy spiritual leadership. With candid examples from his own experience, compelling insight into Scripture, and practical wisdom for leaders at every stage of development, Empowering Leadership instructs as well as inspireshighly recommended!

Chris Hodges, senior pastor, Church of the Highlands;

author of Fresh Air and The Daniel Dilemma

Michael reminds pastors that we need to do more than simply reach the people around us. We need to be raising up other leaders whose influence will go far beyond our own. This book made me excited all over again to help others become leaders who will make an impact beyond anything I could imagine!

Greg Surratt, founding pastor, Seacoast Church;

president, Association of Related Chur]ches

We dont need bigger crowds. We need an army of leaders to change the world. Michael Fletchers new work explains clearly how Manna Church has developed the culture and systems to not only deploy leaders in their church, but also to be sent as an army to change the world. Empowering Leadership is filled not just with principles but very workable practices based on experience.

Dave Travis, chief executive and chief

encouragement officer, Leadership Network

We have all read books on leadership written by people who have not done what they urge others to do. Michael Fletcher is different. He has actually built the leadership culture he describes in this essential book. In Empowering Leadership, he gives us the hard-won lessons of his leadership life, and with them we can lead as Michael has led and change our generation in the process.

Stephen Mansfield, PhD, New York Times bestselling author

From church janitor to megachurch pastor, Michael has been Gods instrument to raise up countless ministry leaders from the house, for the house, for the world, and for Gods kingdom. This book is the story of how that happened and how God could use you in the same way. This could change everything for your church. Everything.

Shawn Lovejoy, founder and CEO, CourageToLead.

com; author of Be Mean About the Vision

Michael Fletcher is at the top of the list when it comes to reproducing leaders. Hes one of the most strategic and focused leadership generators I know. In Empowering Leadership he reveals the paradigms and strategies he has used for decades to find, develop, and release leaders worldwide. If youre involved in any aspect of leadership development, this is a book you need to read.

Larry Osborne, author and pastor, North Coast Church

As I began to read Empowering Leadership, I couldnt put it down. Michael has hit a grand slam home run! This book is thoroughly biblical and extremely practical at the same time. Michael is not a theoretician but a practitioner of church leadership. I have watched the church he leads grow and thrive even in the most difficult arena. Youll be inspired, motivated, and informed about how to go to the next level. Thanks, Michael, for one of the best ministry leadership books in the kingdom.

Dr. Chris Stephens, Faith Promise Church

Today we hear so much about the need for a church to have a leadership pipeline but so little about the culture necessary to produce more and better leaders. Michael Fletchers book will be an instant must read for those who realize that improving their churchs leadership development culture is the only way theyll see more and better leaders produced across all their different ministries.

Brent Dolfo, leadership development

director, Leadership Network

Michael Fletcher has been doing the stuff called leadership for nearly forty years. Theres no one I know who is better at making disciples, building leaders, and planting churches. Empowering Leadership is a practical textbook for anyone wanting to learn how to do the stuff that makes a kingdom impact.

Steve Robinson, Church of the King

In a world that pursues and celebrates large crowds, this book is a road map that draws us back to what really matterscreating cultures that develop great leaders. Michael is one of the most influential kingdom leaders of our generation, and his voice is much needed right now. His wisdom has transformed the way I think and the way I lead. Every leader needs to read this long-awaited book with their team.

John Stickl, lead pastor, Valley Creek Church;

author of Follow the Cloud

Empowering Leadership is the simple, profound, biblical solution to the nationwide leadership crisis. Michael shares his own journey and draws us into the right, hard work of taking those around us and developing them to their full potential. Otherwise known as discipleship.

Jerry Daley, veteran church planter

My first thought after finishing Empowering Leadership was, This is now going to be my #1 recommended book on leader development. Pastor Michael Fletcher has clearly outlined a practical system for identifying, developing, and multiplying leaders at all levels.

Linda Stanley, vice president and team leader, Leadership Network

In Empowering Leadership Michael shares the reasons why and how a church can turn laymen into leaders. It is a jam-packed goldmine of advice, tools, and insights that can propel you and your organization forward with fresh motivation and success.

Lynette Lewis, author of Climbing the Ladder in Stilettos;

TEDx speaker, business consultant, pastors wife

As my friend, colleague, and coach, with all I have I can attest that Michael Fletcher loves two things: Jesus and His church. The ideas and principles contained in this book are simply the overflow of these loves. These are not merely hopeful ideas created by a theorist. These are principles learned by a leader of leaders over decades of prayer, study, trial, and failure. They are biblical and proven. If you want to see Jesus glorified by the church reaching the lost and raising up influencers in the world, I can testify from personal experience that this book is for you.

David McQueen, Beltway Church

Ive had the privilege of watching Michael Fletcher build solid leaders for nearly thirty years. The leadership culture he and his team build is easily transferable via the Upward Draft, Shoulder Tapping, and SERVE Model, just to name a few highlights from this book. Im honored to endorse Michael, his leadership methodology, and Empowering Leadership.

Ron Lewis, international church planter, Every Nation;

senior minister, Every Nation NYC/New Jersey and

Kings Park International Church, Raleigh-Durham

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