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    The Shepherd and His Staff: A Guide to the Biblical Principles and Practices of Leadership
    The Shepherd and His Staff: A Guide to the Biblical Principles and Practices of Leadership
    The Shepherd and His Staff: A Guide to the Biblical Principles and Practices of Leadership
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    The Shepherd and His Staff: A Guide to the Biblical Principles and Practices of Leadership

    By Theodore Mistra

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    This book is about leadership. It is, in fact, about the greatest leader model who ever lived. Ken Blanchard and Phil Hodges were the first to encourage us to follow Jesus as the ultimate example of leadership for all purposes. Theodore Mistra applied this principle to his own career and learned that even an executive’s highest calling is to become just such a shepherd leader. In The Shepherd and His Staff Mistra illustrates what the Bible reveals about the key principles and practices to becoming a shepherd leader. He shows that the shepherd as a leadership calling, role, and responsibility has equal force for both men and women. He asks us to remember that leadership applies to any person who has authority or influence over another person and that this influence is always to be used to glorify God whether in the home, church, schools, business or government.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCastle Quay Books
    Release dateJul 7, 2017
    ISBN9781927355947
    The Shepherd and His Staff: A Guide to the Biblical Principles and Practices of Leadership
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    Theodore Mistra

    In his earlier book The Shepherd and His Staff, Theodore Mistra recounts his personal relationship with Jesus Christ, as he discovers his highest calling is to be a shepherd leader in all areas of his life. Surrounded by Angels is his personal life testimony describing a life-threatening cancer that brought him to a new awareness of angelic help.  Theodore Mistra, (a pen name) serves as chairman of the board and chief executive officer for a life sciences company with hundreds of employees and approximately a hundred million dollars in annual sales. He is the graduate of an Ivy League business school. Ted and his wife are the parents of three children. Theodore Mistra (a pen name) is chairman and CEO of a $100 million life science company. He has been a guest lecturer at various colleges and universities, and he has served as a church elder, church planter, and Bible study teacher. He is married and has three adult children. Although the author uses a pen name, he is available to personally share his experience with those who seek and need encouragement and hope in their own struggle with life whether personal, professional, or spiritual. Contact the publisher if you need further information

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      The Shepherd and His Staff - Theodore Mistra

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      In the Bible the shepherd’s staff appears as a source of comfort, concern and compassion, often symbolizing the Spirit of God. In Moses’ hand, it was a sign of God’s miracles and deliverance. It parted seas. To David, the Lord’s rod and staff were a source of comfort. The staff had a type of aura about it. Shepherds used a variety of equipment and aids while tending their flocks, but the staff was mainly practical, used by shepherds to draw sheep together, guide them, rescue them and set them free from entanglement.

      In The Shepherd and His Staff, our examples of the qualities of a good shepherd and the uses of his staff start with Abraham, then cover Moses and David, concentrating on the men called by God and their use of an actual wooden staff. When we move to Jesus and his 12 apostles we move from a wooden staff to human staffs. Jesus tells Peter to be a shepherd and to feed his flock. We end with those of us today who are heirs of Jesus as modern shepherds, and while we do not use a wooden staff we surround ourselves with human staffs just like Jesus did. It is no accident that the word shepherd has the words she and he in it. As women and men serving in his Kingdom we are living staffs used by the Lord to guide and lead his sheep as he would have. This book illustrates the key characteristics a living staff should have, as we also lead as good shepherds.

      The Shepherd and His Staff: A Guide to the Biblical Principles and Practices of Leadership

      Copyright ©2017 Theodore Mistra

      1st edition 2004, 2nd Edition 2005, 3rd Edition 2008, 4th Edition 2017

      Previous ISBN 1-58597-303-3 Leathers Publishing

      All rights reserved

      Printed in Canada and the United States of America

      ISBN 978-1-927355-93-0 soft cover

      ISBN 978-1-927355-94-7 EPUB

      Published by:

      Castle Quay Books

      Burlington, Ontario

      In the USA

      Lake Worth, Florida

      Tel: (416) 573-3249

      E-mail: [email protected] www.castlequaybooks.com

      Cover and inside design by Burst Impressions

      Printed at Essence Printing, Belleville, Ontario

      All rights reserved. This book or parts thereof may not be reproduced in any form without prior written permission of the publishers or the author.

      Scripture quotations are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION ®. Copyright © 2011 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved.

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Mistra, Theodore, author

      The shepherd and his staff : a guide to the biblical principles and practices

      of leadership / Theodore Mistra.

      Previously published: Leathers Publishing, 2004.

      Issued in print and electronic formats.

      ISBN 978-1-927355-93-0 (softcover).--ISBN 978-1-927355-94-7 (EPUB)

      1. Leadership--Religious aspects--Christianity. I. Title.

      BV4597.53.L43M57 2017 248.8’8 C2017-905261-6

      C2017-905262-4

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      For my father, who served as a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army, in memoriam. And for our Father in heaven and Jesus his Son, who sent the Holy Spirit to inspire full appreciation

      of my father’s true legacy.

      Contents

      Foreword by Ken Blanchard

      Foreword by Blaine McCormick

      Introduction

      Reflection: A Shepherd’s Staff

      The Original Peter Principle

      Two Key Principles of Shepherd Leadership

      Reflection: Our Chief Shepherd

      The Essence and Attributes of the Shepherd

      The Lord Is My Shepherd

      S Stewardship and Service

      H Hope and Humility

      E Example and Excellence

      P Perseverance and Prayer

      H Healing and Hearing

      E Encouragement and Endurance

      R Respect and Reconciliation

      D Decision and Discipline

      Reflection: The Piney River Flock

      Afterword

      Acknowledgments

      For More Information

      About the Author

      Foreword by Ken Blanchard

      The headlines of the world’s newspapers report daily on the growing evidences of man’s inhumanity to man. CNN.com, under all its headings—U.S., World, Money, Opinion, Health, Sports, Politics, Tech, Entertainment, Travel, and Style—conveys that relationships in each field are in deep trouble. Even the most ostrich-like of us becomes aware that if realizations are not made and actions immediately taken in light of the intrinsic connectedness of the human family, we will not even save the earth, let alone establish the Kingdom of God on it.

      Paralleling this process of destruction, however, is another process not so well advertised, focused on or debated. It is characterized by a growth of consciousness that winning, if somebody else has to lose, doesn’t taste right. Indeed it has the effect of turning the sweetness to sawdust in the mouth. A growing number of people are daring to believe that win/win might be a possibility; that life is not about either/or but instead is about both/and. And with that realization there is an experience of relief at the level of the soul.

      Onto such a stage comes The Shepherd and His Staff: A Guide to Leadership. While the author is completely honest that the source of his inspiration is his own spiritual heritage of a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, he states, The principles and practices are intended to benefit Christian, Jew and Muslim alike.

      Such a statement, so genuinely expressed, lifts the book to a new level. The interest is in serving a community that includes Christianity and reaches out to include all the dwellers of the earth. As such, it is a beautiful expression of the spirit of Christ himself.

      For those who are interested in widening their horizons to include the entire human family, the spirit and advice of this book will assist them in developing transformative behaviors. It will also serve as a balm to the heart.

      Ken Blanchard

      Scotland

      Foreword by Blaine McCormick

      Make no mistake, servant leadership was a great idea and remains a great idea in the twenty-first century. Robert K. Greenleaf’s reflections on the nature of power and authority in a competitive world are as vibrant and challenging today as they were when they emerged in the early 1970s. Greenleaf spent much of his life in the business arena working for AT&T

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