Dr. Lynn Anderson - They Smell Like Sheep, Volume 2: Leading with the Heart of a Shepherd

When I was just starting in ministry, no one shared his heart with me more than Lynn Anderson. He was a friend, a mentor, a guide, and an example. Now he has put into print what he has put into practice for forty years. Read and be blessed. The book is almost as good as the man.

Rick Atchley, senior minister, Richland Hills Church of Christ

Im into my third decade of Lynn Anderson admiration. Few communicators speak with such tender conviction and practical admonition. This book, in particular, reminds us to steer away from stiff styles of corporate leadership and find our model in the tender-hearted pastor. Lynn has achieved thisby Gods grace we can as well.

Max Lucado, senior minister, Oak Hills Church,
and New York Times bestselling author

They Smell Like Sheep taught us what to do to be effective leaders and particularly effective shepherds. In They Smell like Sheep, Volume 2, Lynn Anderson provides wonderful insights and practical advice on how to cultivate our hearts in order to be effective leadersMesquite Bush Leaders.

Ron Miller, retired vice president, Procter & Gamble, and Hope Network board member

What a difference a shepherds heart can make! Thanks to Lynn Anderson for reminding us that effective leaders are service oriented, scripturally informed, sensitive to people, and strong in faith.

David Faust, President, Cincinnati Christian University

St. Paul tells young Timothy he is to be an example to his peoplenot a star or a celebrity. He is to be a living illustration of the gospel for young and old, and that is what Lynn Anderson has been for years for so many of us. He has lived out the heart of the gospel as a shepherd, mentor, preacher, author, and true example.

Fred Smith, President, The Gathering, www.thegathering.com

Great missionaries immerse themselves into the life and culture of the people they go to serve. They are transformed into spiritual giants, blessed by God by giving themselves away. I know of no one who has immersed himself into the lives of leaders all over the nation more than Lynn Anderson. Through mentoring groups, retreats, and seminars, he has tirelessly served leaders when they hurt and when they heal. You can tell it when you read this book. The stories he shares, the issues he raises, and the practical reflective questions he gives the reader responds to the aspirations of every spiritual leader. This book is a great extension of Lynns gift of giving hope and renewing a vision to be the best we can be in serving with the heart of our Great Shepherd.

Evertt W. Huffard, VP/Dean, Harding University Graduate School of Religion, Memphis

Through the ages, God has called leaders who rarely possessed extraordinary competency, but always possessed extraordinary character. In They Smell Like Sheep, Volume 2, Lynn masterfully unveils what this leader of extraordinary character looks like from the inside.

Mark Kirk, Partner, Linsalata Capital Partners and Hope Network Ministries Board Member

Lynn Anderson calls us to love well. Is that not what shepherd leadership is all about? In a post-Christendom culture where people are seeking Christ-like role models, may God supply us the grace to love well. As Lynn encourages us, its time to put religion aside and live out the gospel.

Nancy Keeth, Executive Minister,
Fourth Avenue Church, Franklin, Tennessee

Few in Christendom understand the heart of a shepherd as does Lynn Anderson. Not only does he have a gift for articulating the concepts of servant leadership, but he speaks from the experience of one who has accepted a call to shepherd the Shepherds of the church. They Smell like Sheep, Volume 2, along with They Smell like Sheep, should be in the library of anyone who has accepted the responsibility and blessing of being a Christian leader.

Jackie L. Halstead, PhD, Chair, Department of Marriage and Family Therapy, Abilene Christian University

In his second volume on shepherding Gods people, Lynn Anderson draws us to holy places where we discover who we are in Gods presence and who we have been called to serve. In so doing he helps us tend to our own hearts as we tend to the lambs in our care and keeping.

DEsta Love, University Chaplain, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California

Our purpose at Howard Books is to:

Increase faith in the hearts of growing Christians

Inspire holiness in the lives of believers

Instill hope in the hearts of struggling people everywhere

Because Hes coming again!

They Smell Like Sheep, Volume 2 2007 by Lynn Anderson

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Lynn Anderson

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would likely never have happened.

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Woe to the shepherds of Israel who only take care of themselves! Should not shepherds take care of the flock? You eat the curds, clothe yourselves with the wool and slaughter the choice animals, but you do not take care of the flock. You have not strengthened the weak or healed the sick or bound up the injured. You have not brought back the strays or searched for the lost. You have ruled them harshly and brutally. So they were scattered because there was no shepherd, and when they were scattered they became food for all the wild animals. My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. They were scattered over the whole earth, and no one searched or looked for them.