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Pastoral Leadership Behavior, Church Growth and Membership Longevity: A Multiple Case Study.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Pastoral Leadership Behavior, Church Growth and Membership Longevity: A Multiple Case Study./
Author:	Royster, Marc E., Sr.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
Description:	104 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 77-10, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International77-10B.
Subject:	Clerical studies. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10100021
ISBN:	9781339639598

Pastoral Leadership Behavior, Church Growth and Membership Longevity: A Multiple Case Study.
Royster, Marc E., Sr.

Pastoral Leadership Behavior, Church Growth and Membership Longevity: A Multiple Case Study. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 104 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 77-10, Section: B.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Northcentral University, 2016.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Pastoral leadership is not an effortless process. A pastor's behavior as a leader has direct bearing on church growth, sustainment of church members, and any community outreach endeavors he or she aspires to accomplish. While Christianity and the growth in Christian churches may plateau or even decrease in the coming decades, this multiple case study provided insight into the leadership behavior of three pastoral leaders who started their churches with fewer than 20 people. The pastoral leaders all started in a home or a rented hotel conference room, they all had experienced rapid growth within the first three years of their Church's existence, and they all sustained growth in church membership. The exploration of this study was accomplished through data collected from interviews, questionnaires, archival data, and observations of the three pastoral leaders as they interacted with their lay leaders and congregation. The data from the sources were coded, analyzed and triangulated for the purpose of understanding commonalities in the pastoral leaders' behavioral influence on church growth, retention of members, and community outreach endeavors. The results revealed three common behavioral themes that the three pastoral leaders shared in relation to church growth and the retention of church membership. These behaviors are: 1) personal engagement; 2) discipleship/evangelism; and 3) inclusivity/transparency. Future research should include the following, 1) an expansion of pastoral leaders participating in the study, 2) personal interviews versus a questionnaire given to the lay leaders (as some people are better at verbal communication than written communication), 3) include lay members who do not hold a leadership role in the church, and 4) include pastoral leaders who meets the criteria of the selected research group, but are members of an established church denomination: Baptist, Methodists, Presbyterian, or Church of God in Christ, for example. Such denominational organizations have certain tenets that subordinate churches must adhere to, and thus may affect the precipitousness of church growth.

ISBN: 9781339639598Subjects--Topical Terms:

3557760
Clerical studies.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Christian churches

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