Last time, I wrote about the five observations I made of
five successful churches. A number of people have made comments on other social
network sites and also to me privately that these churches must have all been
Mega-churches. This was not the case some of those churches had just started
their journey others had been going for some years. The breakdown in size of
those churches - at the time I made my observations, was as follows. Two had
congregations of between 150 and 250. One had a congregation of 600, another
with 1200 and the last with a congregation of 2000+. The churches were
successful because they had the five things I observed in common. All the
churches had been operating for between 5 years to 15 years, and all were
seeing rapid growth. All these churches have continued to see growth. So there
is hope for those churches that have been stuck on a congregation size of
40-50. I believe fervently that a church leader can build a large, vibrant,
healthy, contemporary church with God’s help and intervention. As long has he
or she is willing to learn and give the sacrifice that it will take to grow a
congregation.
The myth that all leaders are leaders. Not everyone who leads in church is a leader. I think it is wrong, for Church leaders to believe that those they train up to take various ministry leadership positions, are in fact leaders in their own right. They are not. At best I would categorise these people- that many churches call 'ministry leaders' as ministry managers. "At one level there is nothing wrong with title inflation; it is a cheap way of recognising people who work hard and make serious contributions" Jo Owen. I am of the opinion that this title inflation undervalues both the leader and the ' ministry manager' and can often bring about confusion and mismatched expectations. Many churches have ministry training evenings for their volunteers. Many use the reason for this training is "to make a person a better leader," when in fact the only thing actually happening is that th...
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