As senior professor of ministry at Gordon-Conwell and a coach and discipler at Leighton Ford Ministries, Dr. Jim Singleton leverages his decades of experience to equip the next generation of leaders with a revitalized and sustainable approach to ministry.

To that end, Dr. Singleton recently published Attentive Church Leadership: Listening and Leading in a World We’ve Never Known with co-author Kevin G. Ford. The pair was featured on The Stetzer ChurchLeaders podcast to discuss the book and a few of its key topics, including the modern landscape of the church, common challenges ministry leaders face, and how to build healthy congregations. The book also provides insight for pastors struggling with creating community, managing the pressures of leadership, defining a church’s ethos, and more.

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Gordon-Conwell alumni shared the following reviews of Attentive Church Leadership:

“Kevin Ford and Jim Singleton are faithful, experienced leaders in Christ’s church who bring unique, insightful understanding into the rapidly changing nature of today’s cultural landscape. For the overwhelmed pastor with little time for grasping a wider view of the world, this book provides a wonderful grid for asking the right questions and responding biblically to the churches they lead.”
—David D. Swanson, senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Orlando (DMin ’98, former Board of Trustees member)

“Brilliant, beautiful, and nourishing, Attentive Church Leadership invites you to drink anew of Christ’s living water and shows how your church can become a wellspring of God’s transforming grace in the world.”
—Ken Shigematsu (MDiv ’95), pastor of Tenth Church in Vancouver, British Columbia, and author of God in My Everything