Church leadership can present an interesting cunundrum. I heard one Florida Baptist Convention leader say publicly, “When people step through a church door, they go brain dead.” In other words, they apply to the area of church leadership some principles which they never would apply in their own lives or in their own businesses.
For example, some churches only want a pastor to preach and teach the Word of God, and to make hospital and evangelistic visits. The administrative leadership then would be left to lay leaders, whose primary jobs are elsewhere, but who would come in to provide leadership to the church.
No one would run any other business in such a fashion. What business leader would operate that way? And yet, too often we accept the role of churches operating that way.
Such leadership is not biblical either. Scripture calls the pastor a shepherd, a bishop, an overseer. The New Testament makes it clear in multiple passages that the Pastor is the under-shepherd of the church, the leader here on earth, serving under the Chief Shepherd.
Something for us to think about regarding the way we operate many modern churches.
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