What about pastoral leadership?

Relatively little is known about the ongoing development of pastors as leaders. This study focused on learning agility, the combination of personal strategies and situational factors that pastors rely on to capture the lessons their experiences teach them. Interviews with 100 senior pastors indicated that the situational factors associated with learning for pastors were those that pushed them to step to the edge of their comfort zones, requiring them to draw on God and others, manage significant change, manage the ministry in all its complexity, and to extract lessons from positive and especially negative results. The personal strategies that pastors leveraged to navigate through and learn from key experiences included adopting a learning focus, relying on personal character and values, establishing and managing relationships, relying on their faith and calling, and using their expertise and knowledge. Implications for lifelong pastoral leadership development are explored.

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The Impact of Charismatic Pastoral Leadership On Religious Commitment and Church Growth in the Korean Mega-Churches

Mission Studies ◽

10.1163/157338301x00180 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

pp. 21-48

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Keyword(s):

Church Growth ◽

Pastoral Leadership ◽

Religious Commitment ◽

Senior Pastor ◽

The Impact ◽

Large Churches

AbstractHow are the Korean mega-churches growing? What distinguishes them from smaller size of churches? To understand the phenomenal growth of the Korean mega-churches, the survey was taken in 1998 to measure the perceptions of members about their pastor, view of church growth, and religious characteristics, based on 1,260 samples (750 for the mega-churches, 265 for the large churches, and 245 for the small/middle-sized churches). The results showed that the members of the mega-churches are more likely to perceive their senior pastor as charismatic, are more likely to attribute the factors of church growth to their senior pastor, and are more likely to exhibit religious commitment than are the members of the smaller size of churches. This paper argues that charismatic pastoral leadership has an immense impact on religious commitment of the members, thereby leading to church growth.

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God's Potters: Pastoral Leadership and the Shaping of Congregations

Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews ◽

10.1177/009430610903800303 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 38 (3) ◽

pp. 221-222

Author(s):

Richard Flory

Keyword(s):

Pastoral Leadership

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Halen som logrer med hunden

Scandinavian Journal for Leadership & Theology ◽

10.53311/sjlt.v6.36 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 6 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Truls Åkerlund

Keyword(s):

Social Engagement ◽

Pastoral Leadership ◽

Well Being ◽

Therapeutic Culture ◽

Prophetic Imagination ◽

The Church

The tail is wagging the dog: On Pentecostal eschatology and social engagement Pentecostals have often been accused, and rightly so, of an other-worldly eschatology that leads to escape from, rather than engagement in, society. In contrast, this article seeks to demonstrate that Pentecostal spirituality and worldview carry the seed of a more fruitful approach towards social engagement and transformation, and proposes (a) proleptic anticipation, (b) holistic soteriology, (c) openness to God, and (d) prophetic imagination as starting points for an eschatology that takes both Pentecostal characteristics and the well-being of society seriously. Further, the study points out dispensationalism, fatalism, understanding of time, and waning eschatological expectations as issues that must be addressed for this potential to be realized. Finally, it concludes with implications for pastoral leadership and preaching, highlighting the need for an eschatological pulpit to avoid the damage of the contemporary therapeutic culture in the life of the church.

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