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    Category: Leaders Edge

    The “Leader’s Edge” series offers in-depth book summaries and interviews with authors in four categories: Leadership, Missions and Ministry, Spiritual Formation, and Missionary Biographies. These summaries inform, stimulate, and provoke profitable discussions among readers. This series is a valuable resource for leaders, missionaries, and those seeking spiritual growth, offering actionable insights and fostering thoughtful discussions.

    Author Interview: Daniel Im

    The book presents a discipleship framework that seeks to equip and empower pastors to lead, evangelize, disciple, and preach differently in today’s …
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    Missio Nexus February 18, 2025
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    The Discipleship Opportunity: Leading a Great-Commission Church in a Post-Everything World     

    The book presents a discipleship framework that seeks to equip and empower pastors to lead, evangelize, disciple, and preach differently in today’s …
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    Missio Nexus February 18, 2025
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    Wise Men From the East — A Timely Reminder for Missions in 2025

    In Puerto Rican culture, where I come from, this day is filled with joy, family, and a powerful reminder of the moment the Magi arrived to worship the…
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    Missio Nexus February 15, 2025
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    Great Commission Spirituality: Abiding in Christ, Serving in Obscurity

    Great Commission servants can often feel overwhelmed, struggling to maintain steadfastness and joy through the pressures and obscurities of the work.
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    Missio Nexus February 11, 2025
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    Leading with Significance: How to Create a Magnetic, People-First Culture  

    Joey Havens has served in various leadership positions, including almost ten years as Executive Partner, with Horne LLP, one of the leading accountin…
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    Missio Nexus February 4, 2025
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    Behind the Ranges        

    James Outram Fraser, known as “Fraser of Lisuland,” was raised in a well-to-do British home and was deeply impacted by the life of his godly mothe…
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    Missio Nexus January 28, 2025
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    Joyful Perseverance: Staying Fresh through the Ups and Downs of Ministry         

    This book, written by the well-known former director of Youth for Christ, Sri Lanka, encourages ministry leaders to rely on God’s grace to find joy,…
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    Missio Nexus January 20, 2025
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    Lead with Prayer – The Spiritual Habits of World-Changing Leaders  

    This book is a collaborative effort by the three authors. Ryan Skoog leads the church planting group Venture. Greer is the President and CEO of HOPE I…
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    Missio Nexus January 14, 2025
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    Author Interview: Karl Vaters

    As seen in the main title, this book addresses the concept of de-sizing the church (i.e., “choosing to evaluate the health and vitality of a congreg…
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    Missio Nexus January 7, 2025
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    De-Sizing the Church: How Church Growth Became a Science, Then an Obsession, and What’s Next    

    Big churches are not the problem. Bigness is the problem. Bigness is an obsessive mindset” (page 12). 
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