The Church Staffing Puzzle In The New Age

If you are a leader in a local church, stop what you are doing and go over to Tim Steven’s post on You’ll Never Have Enough Staff and read it right now. It’s that good.

It’s not good like it’s going to solve your problem. It’s good like to know that no matter what size church or budget, most of us wrestle with the same exact issue. Never enough staff, never enough money to accomplish what you think God is called you to do.

This post is a particular timely reminder to me as we (Western Hills) are praying through our next hire, wrestling with the dreams versus the reality. I’m not quite ready to uncork all that we’re learning yet, still need some marinate time on it but suffice it to say that the times – they are a changin’.

Now more so than ever it is important for churches to flesh out Ephesians 4:11 – there are some who gifted and called to equip and empower others to carry out the ministry of the Church. That practically means equipping and empower volunteers and other lay ‘staff.’ No more ‘experts’ doing all the work. (Not that there really ever was any experts in the first place…but that’s a whole other topic.)

Great read. Highly recommend it.