own through the centuries church leaders have studied the Gospels to discover patterns of leadership development that can be applied to their own context. Yet the word 'leader' does not appear in the Gospels Could it be that leadership has more to do with learning to follow than learning to command, supervise, or manage? On right attitudes than on mastery of certain skills? Many of the insights we need are embedded in the images which Jesus used to describe his followers."

So David W. Bennett introduces his stimulating and scholarly study. He examines all the many images and metaphors in the Gospels relating to how disciples follow Jesus, and in turn influence others. Then he moves on to survey much of the evidence to be found in the images of the rest of the New Testament. Finally, he draws some

judicious conclusions for an under standing of Christian leadership in our own day

The author has had considerable cross-cultural experience-having worked in Japan, India, Israel, Brazil, Argentina, Jamaica and the Philippines as well as in churches in California. His aim is to stimulate thought on these questions in churches all over the world, and not just in the West

Dr Bennett ministered in Californian churches between 1969 and 1988, and is currently Senior Pastor of Mountain Park Church in Lake Oswego, Oregon. From 1988 to 1990 he undertook doctoral research at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasaderia, in the area of intercultural studles