There Is No Single Best Model for Church Organization
As I continue my exploration of Christian church organization, specifically focusing on U.S. evangelicals, I need to make something clear from the outset: There is no single, perfect organizational model for all churches.
You would think that this is obvious but it’s not. It’s not even obvious in business management. Elliott Jaques’s ideas of Real Boss and work levels is brilliant but he got into some massive problems insisting that every organization he saw needed to be a Management Accountability Hierarchy. Not even all business organizations need it. You can be a genius and still be blinded by your way of seeing things, which I pointed out in our discussion of Warren Kinston & Jimmy Algie’s seven decision making approaches.
So it’s probably a good idea for us to get this in early.
March 9, 2010 2 Comments
