I have noticed a number of hits on the Church Organizational Structure Series. I thought I would post this question to see what the next topic should be. Since this is something you have questions about, let’s talk it through. So, please be sure to comment back with your specific questions and we will start tackling this fun subject!
What are the most confusing or most challenging issues you face with your current organizational structure?
What are some general questions you have regarding job descriptions and roles?
What are your other questions?
Be sure to comment this blog with all questions. We will take them one by one.
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Trent Cotton has spent a number of years in management and business consulting. After spending some time in the field, he joined the HR department, beginning in recruiting and eventually serving as the Department Head of HR for one of the major lines of business. With such a varied background, he works to bring all of these together to help churches and other Christian organizations incorporate some common business practices into their ministries to enable them to better serve the Kingdom. He currently works for SourcePointe, an HR Outsourcing Agency while continuing to own and operate Christian Management Consulting as a ministry. In his free time, he also writes a lot on Church Development as a Church Consultant.
5 responses so far ↓
wtrentcotton // December 5, 2008 at 5:08 am
Hello all, be sure to add your questions as comments! Let’s get them going!
Jose HC // December 10, 2008 at 3:04 am
Hi Trent – It is good to drop by your blog. It is funny because my Pastor and I were just discussing these same topics today. Job descriptions with appropriate roles and responsibilities is one thing that to my experience most churches do not have. These should exist even for some key volunteer roles. Having them would avoid much confusion, headache and heartache. We are in the process of putting these together for our church… not necessarily a fun process but we believe will help us out enormously as well as allow us to be more effective in ministry.
Peter Alexander // December 22, 2008 at 8:28 pm
I’ve touched on this in my book Writing & Performing Christian Music: God’s Plan and Purpose For The Church. What I wrote (FWIW), is that the problem we run into today is that God has already given the ekklesia an organizational model including job descriptions. The problem I find, is that rather than work God’s model, we’ve created through theology a different model that’s not proving to be effective. I would suggest a strong title for reading is UnChristian from the Barna Group. My spirit was so distressed reading it I can’t get beyond page 72.
William J Hurst // December 24, 2008 at 2:01 am
There is too much of the “body politic”, in church circles today. There is also a competitiveness that is unbiblical. God has set in the church certain ministries and there can be found, in the life of Christ on earth, examples of how they should function. We look everywhere else but to Him for the examples and wonder why we have problems. Selah
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