Peter Drucker offers insightful guidance to the church when he calls leadership a peak performance by one who is "the trumpet that sounds a clear sound of the organizations' goals." His five requirements for this task are amazingly reliable and useful for those who dare to lead churches:
a leader works;
a leader sees his assignment as responsibility rather than rank or privilege;
a leader wants s...
2. Call Him Minister
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H.B. London, Jr. and Neil B. Wiseman
Pastor can experience soul-weariness and it's easy to get cynical. A pastor offered a few lines of sarcasm to express his own frustration: "If I wanted to drive a manager up the wall, I would make him responsible for the success of an organization and give him no authority. I would provide him with unclear goals, not commonly agreed upon by the organization. I would ask him to provide a service of...
