Mastering Church Management
Overview
You probably entered the ministry expecting to focus on preaching, prayer, and spiritual guidance. You soon discovered, however, that the realities of church life require working with structures, ministering both to and through people.
How you handle this important job of administration equipping and organizing the efforts of the people in your church, is often the difference between an effective and a frustrated ministry.
Mastering Church Management faces up to the challenge of an efficient, people-centered ministry. It will give you practical insight on how to balance structure and people, policies and exceptions. It covers strategies as well as the practical concerns of doing versus delegating, recruiting and training workers, developing good working relationships, and getting the structures in place for effective ministry. Most of all it will show you how to get things done—the right things.
If you’re just starting to get organized and wonder where to begin, or if you’re simply needing help to fine-tune already established programs, Mastering Church Management will be a welcome guide for increasing your effectiveness.
Top Highlights
“Good managers have the ability to bring together the necessary people and resources to accomplish the group’s goals. They delegate responsibilities to those who can do the tasks with joy and excellence, so the jobs get done better than they themselves could have done them.” (Page 19)
“Another help is to establish ‘A priorities’ and ‘B priorities.’ A priorities are the creative tasks I need to do to fulfill my ministry. They’re proactive. They move the program, department, or ministry forward. B priorities are the tasks that merely support or supplement my main priorities. They’re important, but they don’t have the highest claim on my time.” (Page 21)
“Visionary leaders know the status quo won’t last forever; most static organizations are actually in the first stages of decline. So leaders look ahead. They envision change.” (Page 19)
“Put the best people in the areas of highest priority.” (Page 45)
“Management is one way leadership manifests itself in the church; it’s leadership being implemented in the day-to-day operation of a complex organization.” (Page 18)
- Title: Mastering Church Management
- Authors: Don Cousins, Leith Anderson, Arthur H. DeKruyter
- Series: Mastering Ministry Series
- Publisher: Multnomah
- Print Publication Date: 1990
- Logos Release Date: 2001
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Church management; Handbooks
- Resource ID: LLS:34.0.56
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T07:39:37Z
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