{"id":1076,"date":"2015-03-06T02:48:49","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T02:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.resourcezoneinternational.com\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2019-06-26T02:01:37","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T02:01:37","slug":"moving-from-pastor-to-leader-key-to-growing-a-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.resourcezone.com.au\/?p=1076","title":{"rendered":"Moving from Pastor to Leader \u2013 Key to Growing a Church"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Group<\/a>Research indicates only about 5 to 10 percent of pastors give more attention to organisational needs than to personal and professional needs as seen in the following characteristics. Remember, what they do is not wrong it is the focus of their behaviour, not their hearts.<\/p>\n

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  1. Emphasis on the big picture.<\/strong> The leader may seem not to need people or to be indifferent to their problems. In reality, leaders are so concerned about people\u2019s needs that they are unwilling to abandon themselves to the concerns of the ninety-nine while they search for the one. Leading, they believe, represents the best way to achieve God\u2019s purposes for the entire flock. Leaders make sure the flock receives pastoral care in a measurable way, primarily through systems of non-staff dependent, mutual self-care. The typical forum for this kind of one another nurture is a small group of ten to twelve people.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    1. Take-charge competence.<\/strong> Leaders set expectations like a band director sets the tempo for the song. This trait particularly shows up in areas of change and confrontation. For example, suppose a person in the church is involved in a significant moral sin. A pastor says, What am I supposed to do? My elders are so tolerant of sin that they wouldn\u2019t assist or back me if I tried to initiate disciplinary measures. The leader takes a different tack. Before I attempt to discipline any individual, I\u2019d better get the eldership in shape. If there\u2019s anything in their lives that is wrong, I\u2019d better have that fixed up so that together we can deal credibly with problems. So the leader sets the terms for being on the eldership. We\u2019re going to pray together, study the Bible together, work together, and obey God together. If this isn\u2019t to your liking, then maybe the eldership role is not the best place of service for you. Such changes do not happen overnight, but the improvements will never happen unless someone begins to take charge.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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      1. One-another ministry expectation<\/strong>. Leaders set the expectations that the members of the church will give and receive care from one another. A leader will hold this standard in such a way that everyone understands this is how they do it. Churches are partly intentional societies and mostly folk cultures governed by a fabric of unwritten rules and expectations. One steering mechanism in folk cultures is the hero making that occurs in the process of telling stories. The leader publicly cheers those role models who show the way ministry \u201cought\u201d to be done. The leader sets up a system of mutual care so that the little emergency calls and crises, that occur weekly, do not prevent him from attending to the greater works that God wants done.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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        1. Group focus. <\/strong> Leaders perceive the church in terms of groups and ministry teams. Leaders, grasping this concept, view their work not as relationships with individuals but as relationships with leaders of groups and teams. When leaders find administratively gifted persons, they use these people as program organisers rather than simply as advisors to themselves. If they ask, What would you recommend that I do about this situation? they do not imply, What should I do about it? but, What do you recommend needs to be done about it?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n