Impact of Church Leadership and Governance on the Church Missions

Abstract

Jesus defined leadership as service (Matt. 10:1ff). To aspire to leadership in 
God’s kingdom requires us to be willing to pay a price higher than others are 
willing to pay. The toll of true leadership is heavy and the more effective the 
leadership the higher it goes. The purpose of this paper the emphasis is on the 
impact of Church leadership and governance on church mission. In any Church, 
the governance/leadership system fulfills a set of core functions: assuring 
security, delivering basic spiritual services efficiently and effectively and 
generating financial needs. Church missions vary in terms of how well or how 
poorly their leadership system fulfils these functions. A descriptive method was 
adopted to carry out this research. It was found that the impact of Church 
leadership and governance on church missions needs to be on the positive side 
and should be improved. The paper put some measures of recommendation; 
such as meeting the needs of the church missions, maturing the numbers, taking 
charge during difficult times, multiplying workers and encouragement of the 
followers. The essence of leadership is to create an opportunity to influence the 
lives of others to be conformable to the norms acceptable to the missions work.