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Ordained ministry, says Will Willimon, is a gift of God to the church—but that doesn't mean that it is easy. Always a difficult vocation, changes in society and the church in recent years have made the ordained life all the more complex and challenging. Is the pastor primarily a preacher, a professional caregiver, an administrator? Given the call of all Christians to be ministers to the world,...

Organizational change requires transforming people into different sorts of people than they would have been without the service of the leader. Specifically, Christian leaders are convinced that deep transformation is what God does. So one of the challenges of church leadership is to be the sort of leader whom God uses to change people. James MacGregor Burns wrote a classic book on leadership in which he contrasted the “transactional leader” and the “transformative leader.”6 The transactional leader
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