Ministry or management?
Do your church leaders feel more like they’re managing a business than leading a worship community? That’s the question asked in the latest Online Pulpit column:
Is the church primarily a community of believers striving to worship God, glorify Christ and love one another? Or is it primarily an organization that needs management? Few would argue for the second definition. Yet what would a neutral person who sat in on one of our leadership meetings (e.g., deacon board, church council, vestry, coetus or session) observe: ministry or management?
Good advice for ministers and church leadership teams who want to move beyond a “management” style of leadership.
