Category Archives: Board Chair

63. ‘Conversion Work’ — How does a Church Board Chair facilitate change?

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Dr. Larry Perkins

All work that a church board engages in is in essence ‘conversion work,’ i.e. the effective management of missional change. The word ‘conversion’ normally is applied to personal spiritual change that brings a person into the Kingdom of God. However, … (read the rest)

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62. Hearing and Dealing with Hard News — a Board Chair’s Most Challenging Hour.

Posted on January 24, 2011 by Dr. Larry Perkins

Resignation of lead pastor, moral failure of a significant church member, financial mismanagement or fraud, accident in which people associated with the church are injured or killed, facility failure, church split — the possibilities for hard news within a congregational … (read the rest)

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61. Role Description for a Church Board Chair — Research Request

Posted on January 14, 2011 by Dr. Larry Perkins

I am doing research on how the role of a church board chair is being defined. If you are a board chair, lead pastor, or a board member and your board has such a role description, would you be willing … (read the rest)

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60. What is a “Policy” and Why is it a useful tool for a Board Chair?

Posted on January 14, 2011 by Dr. Larry Perkins

Church board chairs hear a lot about policy and governance by policy today. I have in previous blogs sought to define the concept of governance. But in this blog I give attention to the concept of “policy.”  What is a … (read the rest)

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59. Policy, Governance and Biblical Principles

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Dr. Larry Perkins
Phillip Jenkins has defined boards as “the well-intentioned in full pursuit of the irrelevant.” While this is a rather pessimistic and cynical evaluation, church boards often fall into this mode of operation. Church boards tend to operate by functioning as
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