Developing the Leaders Around You - Book Evaluation from a Biblical Perspecitve

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Evaluate book from a biblical perspective By Howard B. McCray Crown College GRD 501 - Spiritual Foundations for Leadership - Dr. S. Edgar November 8, 2008 Developing the Leaders Around You John Maxwell’s book reads like a soap opera in a classroom where there is one sub plot after another inter mixed with illustration and charts. I have read a number of John Maxwell’s book and this happens to be my least favorite of them all. He has good things to pull from but overall I feel that this is not a good book to learn biblical principles for leadership. What I will try to do in this evaluation is to show some principles which can be support by scripture and than on the other hand where he totally missed the boat and lacked scriptural support in the remainder of his book. The book is broken down into 10 chapter and each chapter deals with a particular lesson that the leader needs to ask, apply and investigate and use in the development of the leaders around us. It is from these chapters that we see how Mr. Maxwell uses stories and charts to helps us walk this out. Even though they all have value to learning, I believe that in the first two chapter we see two of the most important Biblical principles that author lays out to us, after that we just see more stories and charts and lists that are supposed to give us the keys to super leaders around us. The author does not really use that much scripture in his book, so it was a bit of a shock when he references Moses. I believe that he uses Moses correctly in this application correctly, but it is not Moses that I want to concentrate in this illustration. It is his father-in-law Jethro. His father in law recognized that Moses was not looking to the people around him to support him in his leadership. This is a very important principle and it is very

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