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58. What Makes a Church Board Effective? #6 Commitment to Strategic Priorities
Keeping a church board on task has to be one of the most challenging and frustrating responsibilities that a church board chair manages. It seems that many individuals and issues conspire to derail a church board from its primary purposes … (read the rest)
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Tagged Church boards and strategic priorities, Effective Church Boards, strategic priorities
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57. What Makes a Church Board Effective? #5 Respect for the People
The term “politics” generally does not have good press within church life. When a person is accused of “playing politics,” their activities connote manipulation, coercion, or even guile to achieve a goal that has some personal benefit. Church boards have … (read the rest)
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Tagged church board communications, church boards and politics, constituency relations
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56. What Makes a Church Board Effective? #4 A Spirit-Informed Discernment
A church board’s ability to accomplish its role well reflects its capacity for discernment. Possessing the right information, analyzing it well, understanding internal and external congregational dynamics, and engaging in critical discussion become characteristic practices of such a board. If … (read the rest)
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Tagged church board decision-making, church board effectiveness, spiritual discernment
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55. What Makes a Church Board Effective? #3 Cultivating the Board’s Collective Welfare
Church boards are fragile things. The constant change in personnel, the personal involvement of members within the congregation, and the diverse issues that must be considered can easily rend the relational fabric. When strife happens, the church board’s effectiveness diminishes … (read the rest)
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Tagged Board dynamics, Board Effectiveness, church board cohesiveness, collective welfare of a church board, social life of a church board
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54: Review Article #4. Dan Hotchkiss, Governance and Ministry. Rethinking Board Leadership
Dan Hotchkiss, Governance and Ministry. Rethinking Board Leadership. Herndon, Virginia: The Alban Institute, 2009. 249 pages.
From the first days of the church, governance and ministry (Acts 6) have linked themselves together in ways that directly affect the ability of … (read the rest)
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Tagged Church board leadership, Congregational Organization, Governance and ministry, Job of the Church Board
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