A Subjective View of Staff Your Church for Spiritual Growth
The title of the first chapter of this book is No Longer the Lone Ranger. I remember watching the Lone Ranger on television when I was younger with my father. The Lone Ranger was a fictional cowboy that alone fought the bad people and rid towns of illegal activity. Traditionally, the pastor in many cases was the solo leader of the church. He had mountains of responsibilities during those times, but he was able to handle most of the responsibilities on his own. The church of today needs multiple staff members to work along side the Pastor. The book on pages 12-16 gives reasons why there should be multiple staff members in the church.
The reasons listed for the need of multiple staff members are as follows: no one has all of the gifts, the loss of volunteers, the changing roles of the pastors from generalist to specialist, the increasing numbers of large churches, the expectations and needs of people, the loss of......
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