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Managing the Congregation

Managing the Congregation. Building Effective Systems to Serve People By Norman Shawchuck and Roger Heuser. The Essence of Stewardship. God has called you to serve out of the deep well of God’s grace which is continually made available to you. Experience is not always the best teacher!

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Managing the Congregation

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  1. Managing the Congregation Building Effective Systems to Serve People By Norman Shawchuck and Roger Heuser

  2. The Essence of Stewardship • God has called you to serve out of the deep well of God’s grace which is continually made available to you. • Experience is not always the best teacher! • Experience + Reflection = Learning • Without reflection, one will simply plow ahead, committing the same mistakes over and over.

  3. Stewardship has standards and requirements that God and your parishioners trust you to keep. • Is ministry any less demanding than other professions? • The business of a manage is not to burden, watch over, or dominate a congregation, but to set persons free to grow in their own ministry effectiveness.

  4. INPUT SYSTEM Physical Boundaries ORGANIZATION DESIGN MISSION OUTPUT SYSTEM INTRA/ INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS SPIRITUALITY Sentient Boundaries FEEDBACK LOOP

  5. Understanding Congregations Through Systems Theory • Problems are usually more complex than simple cause and effect relationships. • Systems theory views organizational components as being interrelated—both interdependently and interdynamically. • Each part depends upon all the others • Change in one causes a change in all the others

  6. The congregations must be viewed as a total entity; its components are not to be seen in isolation. • The congregations’ relationship with its environment is of prime importance. • It must be open to exchange of relationships and resources through inputs and outputs. • Though feedback is sometimes painful, it cannot be denied.

  7. The Essence of Understanding the Use of Power in Ministry and Management • Power emerges from two different sources • God gives you power to reach a goal. • Your role in a congregation also gives you considerable power. • The manager has the option of using four types of power: exploitative, coercive, utility, or principle-centered.

  8. Power should go beyond transactional relationships; it is the energy by which ah leader is concerned for others. • Temptations are a natural by-product of power. • Temptations appear in the form of denying or misusing power.

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