Management for Your Church: How to Realize Your Church's Potential Through a Systems Approach

The pastor's role in church management is as important as his many other roles. Every member of the church is affected by the ability of the pastor to provide the kind of organizational structures, polity, and climate that are conducive to the personal and spiritual growth of its members. The spread of the Christian message is too important to be left to chance or to inadequate management. Chapters are: A Balanced Ministry for Today's Church, The Influence of Organization Theory on the Practice of Ministry, Viewing the Church from a Systems Perspective, Mission Intentionality and Systems Theory, Interaction of Church and Environment, The Program-Planning and Budgeting System, Problem Analysis, Decision Analysis, and The Pastor as Church Manager.