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For church leaders hungry for real change.
Chloe Lynch helps you break free from the burned-out, CEO-style leadership that's breaking your church.
You'll lead with love and see the transformation that can bring.
Anna Hockley
Eden Christian Books Specialist
What is happening in church leadership? Can anything be done?
In The Glorious Risk, Chloe Lynch challenges the broken stories shaping Western church leadership, where leaders become either pseudo-CEOs or burned out martyrs to the cause. Instead, Chloe offers a fresh, biblically faithful vision: leadership as friendship.
Rooted in God’s invitation to relationship through Christ, this book reimagines leadership as a journey of friendship. With deep theological insight and lived experience, Lynch deconstructs harmful leadership models, reveals the life-giving potential of true friendship and shows how embracing this approach can transform churches from the inside out.
Accessible, engaging and thought-provoking, this work is a must-read for church leaders, ministry students and those yearning for a leadership style that embodies the beating heart of the gospel. Learn to lead in love and be inspired to redefine leadership in your own community.
Title
The Glorious Risk
Author
Chloe Lynch
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
SPCK Publishing (IVP)
Published
May 2026
Weight
310g
Page Count
208
Dimensions
14.2 x 22.3 x 2 cm
ISBN
9781789746112
ISBN-10
1789746116
Eden Code
7071577
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If your worth as a leader has been reduced to Attendance, Buildings, and Cash, you’re not alone.
The Glorious Risk names the pressure of “McLeadership” and the pain of treating church like an empire to be grown instead of a home for God’s friends.
Many leaders swing from corporate CEO to exhausted martyr - enslaved to everyone’s needs and secretly proud of their own exhaustion.
Lynch shows how even “servant leadership” can twist into a martyr complex that crushes both leaders and congregations.
Drawn from the “LifeGiving Church” plant in London, The Glorious Risk is both academic theology and lived story.
You’ll see how friendship‑leadership shaped a community where belonging came before believing, and where people encountered Jesus through genuine, imperfect relationships.
The Glorious Risk is for those who sense that something is deeply wrong with the way we talk about and practice church leadership.
Drawing on rich Christology, practical philosophy, and moving stories from the front lines of ministry, Chloe Lynch offers a hopeful, realistic path forward: leadership as friendship, power shared “with” people rather than exercised “over” or merely “for” them.
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