Importance Of Church Leadership

In almost any church leadership is the forefront of one understanding their congregation. In researching church leadership and the connection to the people who attend church, it becomes evident that first and foremost training is needed in the church in order to ensure great leaders, promote servanthood, hospitality, stewardship, and vision, to be able to connect with the congregation. The author in this particular research conveys a profound message to all church leaders whereby there should be a “shared power among church leadership.” Specifically this means it is going to take more than one person to guide and work the church. It has become extraordinary evident that the methodology of the leadership skills so radically needed in today’s

Brian Dodd wrote the book Empowered Church Leadership Ministry in the Spirit According to Paul states, “What leaders need most are not new techniques but an awareness of the Spirit’s direction, the importance of prayer and the essentially team nature of effective ministry,” indicating leaders must work together. Often times, leaders may have the potential to operate without godly guidance, which is a danger in leadership. Furthermore, anyone who wants to find God’s path and direction knows the need for a reference point. Without God’s positioning, a leader might as well be without fixed reference point and without goals. As a matter of fact without the certainty of God provision, a leader cannot navigate a sure course of leadership. Leaders are in need of eternal reference points of God’s word and God’s will according to Dodd, this need has never been greater for church leadership. The question, then should be what is church in leadership? Church leadership is the builders of faith in God’s people. It is easy to see the church is certainly made for people; the people are not made for the church. The leadership can then, be effective in many ways when executed with right intentions and motives. Kouzes and Posner states there are five ways leaders’ can practices exemplary leadership. These ways include: (1) modeling the way, (2) inspire a shared vision (3) challenge the process (4) enable others to act, and (5) encourage the heart. The five practices of exemplary leadership are the core leadership competencies that emerged from our analysis of thousands of Personal-Best Leadership Experience cases. When leaders are doing their best, they model the way, inspire a shared vision, challenge the process, enable others to act, and encourage the heart. In modeling the way, in leadership, deeds are far more important than their