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Look before You Lead: How to Discern and Shape Your Church Culture is unavailable, but you can change that!

Before you can lead your church, you have to know your church. Pastoral ministry is challenging work. It is made even more challenging when a pastor ignores the church’s “congregational culture” when seeking to minister to members or implement changes. Just as a pastor studies to interpret the Scriptures, he or she must also interpret the local church culture to better understand and move the...

of the church’s culture. However, the church’s beliefs also include other fundamental aspects of the church’s life, such as how it views time (is the church living in the past or the present?), how it views human nature (is man good or bad?), how it communicates internally and externally (the bulletin, announcements), how it handles power (who has the power and who doesn’t?), what the role of tradition is, what the church believes is the proper role of women, what it believes about the use of technology
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