Learn how the concepts of both spiritual (pastoral) and organizational (managerial) leadership can be applied to ministry effectively and efficiently. How a pastor leads and manages the church in his care can bring it to great success or failure.
The Bible gives us a very specific mandate for who is qualified to lead the church of God's people, and who is not:
1 Timothy 3:1-7 1“It is a trustworthy statement: if any man aspires to the office of overseer, it is a fine work he desires to do. 2An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, 3not addicted to wine or pugnacious, but gentle, uncontentious, free from the love of money. 4He must be one who manages his own household well, keeping his children under control with all dignity 5(but if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of the church of God?); 6and not a new convert, lest he become conceited and fall into the condemnation incurred by the devil. 7And he must have a good reputation with those outside the church, so that he may not fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.” (NASB)
Titus 1:6-9 —6if a man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of dissipation or insubordination. 7For a bishop must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self willed, not quick tempered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money, 8but hospitable, a lover of what is good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled, 9holding fast the faithful word as he has been taught, that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and convict those who contradict. (NKJV)