Leading Leaders: Empowering Church Boards for Ministry Excellence

Building Leaders

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For Malphurs an effective church board focuses upon four functions: These functions fit well within the contraints of Scripture and contemporary legal requirements However, not all of these functions will be addressed equally at all times. External circumstances will dictate which may require particular attention.

Leading Leaders : Empowering Church Boards for Ministry Excellence

Malphurs identifies several other occasional board functions. These include selecting the senior pastor; arbitrating disputes, protecting the pastor, and ordaining and licensing for ministry.

In chapters Malphurs explains the paradigm of policies governance, its implications for the board and pastor, and how it might be implemented. I would suggest that if the mission and vision are already defined with some sense of ends, then incorporating it into policy would be a simple, but vital action that grounds all other policies the board may subsequently develop.

Malphurs outlines the potential benefits of adopting a policies governance approach on pages There is a delegation of responsibility with appropriate authority to be exercised within specific limitations. However, the board cannot divest itself of its own responsibility to ensure that authority is expressed appropriately throughout the congregation.

It is clear in the model of board governance proposed by Carver that mission achievement is the central responsibility of the board. One aspect of this responsibility will be to monitor and assess whether or not the strategic ministry plan is in fact advancing the mission. However, monitoring is only one aspect of this large and significant portfolio.

The board has to provide leadership to the church in discerning the best ways to advance the mission. I appreciated Malphurs discussion of the pros and cons of the senior pastor serving as board chair However, personally I think the arguments against such an arrangement are more cogent.

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In the chapter on effective board meetings Malphurs does not mention the use of a consent agenda, discussion briefs or decision profiles as useful tools. The final chapter offers guidance on how to implement a policies approach Or is it the chair or the senior pastor or some other leader in the church?

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Description The key to effective leadership in the vast majority of today's churches lies as much with their governing boards as it does with their pastor. But many churches are lead by those who volunteer to chair committees because there is a need, yet they have no leadership training to speak of.

How can well-meaning but sometimes ill-prepared lay people guide the path of a church body? The secret lies in offering effective, practical training.

Leadership expert Aubrey Malphurs provides this in Leading Leaders. Filling a gaping hole in leadership literature, Malphurs offers workable strategies to train laypeople to successfully lead their churches. The Best Books of Check out the top books of the year on our page Best Books of Product details Format Paperback pages Dimensions x x

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