Interesting Question on Church Leadership
Posted by Rodney | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on 21-02-2005
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Are churches properly structured?
At the recent Creative Church Conference at Fellowship Church in suburban Dallas, Perry Noble (Senior Pastor of New Spring Community Church in Anderson, SC) observed, “If you operated an airplane like you operate most churches, you’d have a pilot and his crew in the cockpit, and they know how to fly that plane, they know every instrument that’s their job.
“But if it was run like most churches, these pilots, or this crew, before they needed to make an important decision, would have to come out of the cockpit and go into first class and meet with a plumber whose cousin was a pilot at one time, an electrician, a housewife, and a doctor and then after they met with those guys, they would take it back to the coach section for a ‘business meeting’ and a vote. Then after they voted they could go implement what the coach section had told them to do. Now my question to my congregation is, ‘How many of you want to fly on that plane?’ But you want to go to that church? That’s why so many churches are crashing and burning because they are not properly structured.”
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