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Cruciform Leader, The
Learn to lead with countercultural humility and defiant kindness
In the Western world, the church is facing a leadership crisis. The news is riddled with tragic stories of scandal, abuse, and decline. Leadership values have gone astray, having a devastating impact on the witness of the local church to its community.
Alain Emerson says there is hope. True, Christlike leadership is possible―and there are holy and humble leaders rising up, finding their voices, and leading the church moved by the Holy Spirit. These leaders exemplify Alain’s heartfelt plea in this book―to return to the cruciform way.
True leadership exemplified by Jesus and his apostles has the power to be world-changing. With unapologetic sincerity, The Cruciform Leader lays bare the failings at the heart of the church and points to the biblical leadership.
In the Western world, the church is facing a leadership crisis. The news is riddled with tragic stories of scandal, abuse, and decline. Leadership values have gone astray, having a devastating impact on the witness of the local church to its community.
Alain Emerson says there is hope. True, Christlike leadership is possible―and there are holy and humble leaders rising up, finding their voices, and leading the church moved by the Holy Spirit. These leaders exemplify Alain’s heartfelt plea in this book―to return to the cruciform way.
True leadership exemplified by Jesus and his apostles has the power to be world-changing. With unapologetic sincerity, The Cruciform Leader lays bare the failings at the heart of the church and points to the biblical leadership.
- GenresLeadership
256 pages, Paperback
Published August 26, 2025
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June 24, 2026
Take heed, church leader, and read this book. A stellar call away from cultural Christianity.
April 6, 2026
‘There is always more of me that has to die.’
This was quite possible the best leadership book I’ve ever read. As Scot McKnight wrote, this is ‘an apostolic, pneumatic, and christological pastoral theology.’ A call to the ‘hungry, holy, and humble’, it is a critically important corrective to leadership in our time.
This was quite possible the best leadership book I’ve ever read. As Scot McKnight wrote, this is ‘an apostolic, pneumatic, and christological pastoral theology.’ A call to the ‘hungry, holy, and humble’, it is a critically important corrective to leadership in our time.
June 1, 2026
I believe that this is THE book on leadership for the modern church leader. Grateful for Alain’s articulation of the current western church’s shortcomings while graciously calling us higher. If you want to be motivated to become like Jesus, this is for you.
November 6, 2025
Some very helpful insights generously shared. Found the last few chapters especially useful.
November 29, 2025
Very good. I'll be coming back to this one and recommending it to friends.
May 6, 2026
A must read for every leader within the Body of Christ!
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