Changing the Way We Do Church 3
3. Help leaders be productive in their purpose as they oversee Holy Spirit chaos created by people pursuing and fulfilling their purpose.
The current crisis and I believe there is a crisis, is mostly a crisis of leadership. Either leaders are so hands on that they are stifling those around them or they are so hands off that committees and boards are running the church, and some of them are not spiritually equipped to do so. I can remember meeting a group of elders, whose church was half the size and half the budget it had been five years earlier.
They sat in this meeting and pointed fingers at each other in blame, while some wanted to know why they had been informed by the pastor of some things that had happened. They did nothing to set things right or make any good decisions or changes just went on watching things go from bad to worse.
When people pursue their purpose, and not the purpose the Spirit is saying and don’t support the proper direction is left to fail. If a faithful member's purpose is to go to
What's more, leaders need to focus on their own productivity, which must go beyond preaching on Sunday morning and Wednesday evening. Each leader must know his or her purpose and then they must hold themselves accountable for results. It is not enough to judge the job that others are doing. Leaders must produce and be subject to others in their own work.
We will further discuss the attitude that leaders must have if they are to fulfill this third step. If anything is going to change in the church world, the leaders in that world must learn new ways of thinking and behaving, and that will not be an easy thing to achieve.
I am attaching an article I wrote for Charisma Magazine a few years ago that addresses the leadership issue, called Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Leader. It will prepare you for my next post, the fourth in my seven-part series.
Pastor Frank
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