Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Church Leadership

I read a good article from Leadership written by Bill Hybels about leadership style for church ministry. Basically he says that you can't run a church like a business. Here is one excerpt from his article:

1. Every life requires a custom mold.
You don't stop the line in a factory every time a product comes down it. In church work, we're developing individual, custom-made lives. We stop the line for every life.
I've read books about Napoleon, de Gaulle, Eisenhower, MacArthur, Patton. They were all the great military leaders. I don't want to minimize their capabilities or the courage it takes to charge a hill in time of battle, but I've wondered, What would it be like for some of those leaders to have to work it out with deacons before they charged up a hill? How well would they do if they had to subject their plans to a vote involving the very people they're going to lead up the hill? How would the whole military system work if you took away the leadership leverage of the court-martial?
Anyone could build a church with that kind of leverage! I can hear the generals now: "Teach a Sunday school class or go to the brig." "You call that an offering? Give me fifty push-ups right now." That's leverage!

Check out the rest of the article http://lists.christianitytoday.com/t/9310751/1790648/140804/0/

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