{"id":11045,"date":"2013-08-28T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mintools.com\/blog\/?p=11045"},"modified":"2025-10-22T09:22:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T13:22:31","slug":"leaders-church-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mintools.com\/blog\/leaders-church-growth.htm","title":{"rendered":"Leaders & Church Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"

The three different types of leaders in the church, based on spiritual gifting, will have different perspectives or approaches to church growth. Read through the Leadership Ministry Training<\/a> to gain a better understanding of these leaders.<\/p>\n

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Not all leaders will fit precisely into one of these types due to the combination of others gifts and\/or their personalities. Yet, many leaders can see themselves in one of these categories. When that is the case, they should seek to network with other types of leaders to broaden their perspective so they approach church growth from God’s intent.<\/p>\n

How Different Types of Leaders Approach Church Growth<\/h2>\n

Visionary Leaders<\/strong><\/em> tend to want to grow the church by developing new approaches.<\/p>\n

Administrative Leaders<\/strong><\/em> tend to work at fine-tuning or fixing what we’re currently doing to be ready for growth.<\/p>\n

Pastoral Leaders<\/strong><\/em> tend to focus on meeting people’s needs more than being concerned with church growth efforts.<\/p>\n

Developing new ministry initiatives that could lead to growth is important. Properly maintaining the good currently being done is important. Meeting people’s needs is important. — Is it little wonder God so gifted the church that there are three different types of leaders? He intends for the church to do all three of these important tasks but we must work interdependently with one another. We need each other if the church is to grow.<\/p>\n

Church Growth is one of 15 leader responsibilities looked at in the Balance in Church Leadership Based on Spiritual Gifting<\/strong><\/a>. In addition to the tendencies of the different kinds of leaders mentioned in this post, it also suggests what they must be careful of in order to keep the needed balance when it comes to church growth.<\/p>\n

For more:<\/strong>\u00a0 Church Leaders Practicum on Church Growth<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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