ASSESSMENT OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE NEGLIGENCE ON CHURCH GROWTH AND SOCIETAL DEVELOPMENT IN AMAC: WITH EXAMPLE OF CHRIST APOSTOLIC CHURCH GARKI ABUJA
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background to the study
Effective church administrative management is one of the most pressing requirements in Nigerian churches today. Effective management is crucial in determining the lifespan of any institution, including the church. There is an urgent need for a balanced ministry for the church today; in addition to teaching and preaching, church leaders are expected to be skilled in managing and developing administrative leadership in the church.
The ability to properly manage church finances is dependent on the ministry’s oversight of church operations (Andrews & Roller, p.19). If modern churches wish to maximize the effectiveness of their ministries and achieve long-term success, they must be willing to design and redesign themselves.They must do this by implementing new strategies, structures, and operational support systems while preserving the deeply sacred nature that sets them apart from other organizations and provides the strategic focus, forward momentum, and operational support required to thrive in a constantly changing world.
The church is a group of people who have voluntarily come together to carry out God’s will through the church authorities. In contrast to the corporate environment, where investors and stockholders control the pace of administration, the Holy Spirit is the main personality in church administrative management.
The majority of churches in Nigeria still have a ways to go before their administrative capabilities are up to date with the times. This is important because the majority of these new ministries place little to no priority on efficient management and church leadership (Dairo, p.43).Church leaders frequently fail to carry out the fundamental managerial tasks demanded of them since the company as a whole receives little formal education in management principles and abilities (Cohall & Cooper, p.62). As a result, the church’s efficiency and effectiveness in pursuing its vision suffer from a lack of fundamental management principles and abilities (Antony & Esterp, p.102).
By identifying applicable management principles and practices from the secular system that church leaders could adopt for ministry effectiveness, management aspects that can be incorporated into the course offerings of pastoral preparation programs are identified. The term manager will occasionally be used in this study to refer to the pastor and organizational effectiveness to refer to the effectiveness of the ministry.
There are some characteristics that management definitions across the board share. Any attempt to define something that will please the general public, especially in terms of church management, would be presumptuous. Management is useless if it is not connected to a larger goal, and management effectiveness must be assessed not by press reports but by actual social change, measured by intent and by meeting human needs and expectations, which will eventually be apparent in the growth and development of the church.
According to (Oluwasegun, p.85), management is the capacity to get agreement and commitment to shared goals that go beyond organizational needs and are achieved with experience or by the working group’s contribution and satisfaction. The connection in which one individual or the management persuades others to collaborate voluntarily on related duties to achieve the management’s goals could also be referred to as management.
Management provides direction.Management is the capacity of management to inspire the subordinates to work confidently and enthusiastically toward a group’s goals. Since it indicates that management is responsible for achieving the group’s goals, it is crucial that both parties consistently demonstrate their trust and collaboration (Oluwasegun, p.22).
Management is the art of completing tasks. It is something that can be learned, improved, developed, and polished. It is the key influence process, and the process always includes a number of key components such as management and followers, who interact in situations and means of influence that emerge from the management and the followers, based on their value system and goals that the management and the followers seek to achieve (Dairo, p.29).
In terms of church management, it means that the church leadership directs, inspires, reprimands, and establishes a specific goal with his group, as well as resolving individual or group needs inside the church. This is viewed as the sole path to church expansion. It was more commonly employed as a Christological title for the exalted Jesus in the New Testament.The findings of a semasiological and lexicographical research of secular Greek reveal an extraordinarily polyvalent spectrum of meaning for the term “church management,” with the foundation being he who is first, who stands at the head of, who leads.
This indicates that in order to attain ministry effectiveness, church leaders must be educated on management concerns and implement these concepts in church management. According to Antony and Est,erp (p.91), “management is important to the church in three ways.” First, it encourages church leaders to “commit to organizing the institution to achieve its vision, with a focus on resource utilization.” Lotich shares this viewpoint (Lotich, p.3).Second, church officials do not do ministry in a vacuum, but rather within the context of people; therefore, ministry is all about people, not programs.
Individuals, on the other hand, have strengths, weaknesses, gifts, and goals that necessitate the church leader having certain management skills in order to serve the people more efficiently. This viewpoint is shared by (Welch, p.73).Third, the church has a goal and mission that they cannot achieve without a concerted effort. Support lines must be constructed and guarded, materials must be acquired, and personnel must be chosen and trained. This is also supported by (Oluwasegun, p.81). All of these activities are important to good management, and they necessitate the use of management functions that are critical for ministry operation; otherwise, the church is jeopardized and negated (Oluwasegun, 82).
The majority of pastors, according to the extant literature, are well trained in terms of the spiritual aspects of ministry but not in terms of management (Zeitchik, p.47). Due to a lack of management skill development, pastors frequently struggle with management challenges. Ineffective management of the church’s material and immaterial resources also results in problems like theft, stagnation of the congregation, mass emigration of members, and the dismissal of pastors from their positions due to poor management rather than wrongful use of church assets.
1.2 Statement of the problem
Effective service in the twenty-first century depends on efficient church administration. As time goes on, church administration becomes more time-consuming and complicated since the church is required to provide more services than just a sermon and a place of worship. The church of today has evolved into spaces that were hardly noticeable in the past.
The church of the twenty-first century is now a conglomerate, providing all the spiritual support it ought to and even more.As an illustration, churches now have daycare facilities, medical facilities, hospitals, drug rehabilitation centers, drama ministries, senior citizen programs, divorce management committees, youth organizations, football clubs, vocational training and skill acquisition centers, ministry to the incarcerated, anger management, centers for HIV/AIDS check-up and sensitization, and welfare ministers for the widows and homeless, among many other services. To properly manage all of these components, trained employees and experienced administrators are needed.
Stewardship of the church’s and its leadership’s interests must be exercised by someone. While the pastor fosters the church’s spiritual development, it is crucial that someone else manage the organization’s administrative structure.Sadly, the majority of those placed in this position aim to use church resources to benefit themselves, making the church the focus of mockery and legal action. Which necessitates the coordination of these other aspects by dependable and obedient individuals while the pastor watches the sheep.
The greatest level of ministry success cannot be attained by ministries without a competent administration.It is disheartening that so many pastors and congregations do not recognize the value of ministry helpers and administrators. With reference to Christ Apostolic Church Garki Abuja, this study aims to look at the effects of administrative negligence on church growth and society development in AMAC.