Seven Lessons From a Lifetime of Pastoral Leadership

Some wisdom only comes after decades in the work. Dr. Leith Anderson, who pastored Wooddale Church for 35 years and led the National Association of Evangelicals, joins Pastor John K. Jenkins to share seven lessons he learned along the way. Honest, practical, and hard-won, this is the kind of counsel every leader needs to hear.

Know Your Audience: Why the most effective leaders study their community as closely as their congregation, and adapt the message so it actually gets through.
Look Outward: How a church stops growing the moment it turns inward, and what it takes to keep reaching the people who aren’t there yet.
Find Your Identity in Christ: Why who you are has to run deeper than what you do, so the title never becomes the thing that holds you up.