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The key to effective leadership in today’s churches lies as much with their governing boards as it does with their pastors. Many churches are led by volunteers who chair committees, yet have little or no leadership training. Is it possible for well-meaning but often ill-prepared laypeople to guide a church body into Christ-honoring ministry? The answer is yes, and the secret lies in offering...

Are lay boards leading churches well? A look at the general state of the church reveals that they are not. In the early twenty-first century, far too many churches are either plateaued or dying. Randy Frazee and Lyle Schaller write that “66–75 percent of congregations founded before 1960 are plateaued or shrinking.”2 Win Arn, a church growth research expert, contrasts the state of the church at the end of the twentieth century with that
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