Management Essentials for Christian Ministries

Michael Anthony, James R. Estep

• Publisher: B&H Academic
• Year: 2005
• ISBN:
  9781433670053
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

Management Essentials for Christian Ministries is a thorough examination of management principles for Christian ministries including churches, denominations, and parachurch organizations. Contributors represent a diverse denominational cross section.

Study of management principles is required coursework for seminary students today. Management Essentials for Christian Ministries represents a thorough treatment of all issues regarding church administration and functions and provides a theological grounding for organizational approaches to church management.

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Part 1: Integration

1. John Dewey, from the introduction of Theology of Administration: A Biblical Basis for Organizing the Congregation by Harris W. Lee (Minn: Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1981), 4.

2. The following list in a paraphrased form comes from Harris W. Lee, Theology of Administration: A Biblical Basis for Organizing the Congregation (Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1981), 6–7.

3. Ibid., 7.

4. Gerhard Kittel and Gerhard Friedrich, eds., Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, s.v. “Kubern EQ kubernesis” (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.), 1036.

Chapter 1

1.I would like to acknowledge the contributions made by several of my Ph.D. students who assisted me in gathering the biblical references for this chapter. They are Joyce Brooks, Mark Henze, Seung Lee, and Myeong-Shin Nam.

Chapter 2

1. Cf. Patrick J. Montana and Bruce H. Charnov, Management (Hauppauge, New York: Barron's Educational Series, 2000), 11–35.

2. Cf. Lyman Lundeen, “Theology and the Management Mystique,” The Lutheran Quarterly 25 (1973): 339–50.

3. James N. Poling and Donald E. Miller, Foundations for a Practical Theology of Ministry (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1985), 94.

4. William A. Johnson, “Process Management: Bad Theology in the Service of the Church,” The Christian Century (1976): 625.

5. Myron Rush, Management: A Biblical Approach (Wheaton, Ill.: Victor Books, 1983), 11.

6. Loren Broadus, “What in the World Does Theology Have to Do with Leadership,” Lexington Theological Quarterly 2 (1976): 75.

7. Poling and Miller, 108.

8. Kenneth O. Gangel, Competent to Lead (Chicago: Moody Press, 1977), 18.

9. Cf. Ray S. Anderson, “A Theology of Ministry,” in Theological Foundations for Ministry, ed. Ray S. Anderson (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1979), 9.

10. Cf. James Riley Estep Jr., “Biblical-Theological Foundations of Christian Education,” in Foundations for Christian Education, Eleanor A. Daniel and John W. Wade, eds. (Joplin, Mo.: College Press, 1999), 13–33.

11. Lawrence O. Richards, A Theology of Church Leadership (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1980), 199.

12. Cf. Lewis Sperry Chafer, He That Is Spiritual (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1967), 17–21.

13. Ronald T. Habermas, “Practical dimensions of the imago dei,” Christian Education Journal 13 (1993): 90–91.

14. Cf. Lawrence O. Richards and Gib Martin, A Theology of Personal Ministry (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1987), 130–132 for complete discussion of gifts in administration.

15. Kenneth Gangel, Competent to Lead (Chicago: Moody Press, 1974), 21. Gangel used the Septuagint rather than the Hebrew Old Testament as a means of completing his word study of kubhvrnhthß.

16. Fritz Rienecker and Cleon Rogers, Linguistic Key to the Greek New Testament (Grand Rapids: Regency/Zondervan Publishing House, 1980), 430.

17. Ibid., 395.

18. Warren S. Benson, “Jesus Christ and Paul as Christian Education Specialists,” in Directing Christian Education, Michael S. Lawson and Robert J. Choun Jr. (Chicago: Moody Press, 1992), 33.

19. Cf. earlier edition of this figure in James Riley Estep Jr., “Can a Christian be a Dean? Toward a Theology of Academic Administration in Christian Higher Education,” Christian Education Journal 6NS (2002): 35–54.

20. Gareth Morgan, Images of Organization, 2nd ed. (London: Sage Publishers, 1997), 347.

Part 2: Planning

1. M. Peterson, “Analyzing alternative approaches to planning,” in P. Jedamus M. Peterson, & Associates (eds.), Improving Academic Management (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1980), 113–163.

2. A. MacKinney, “Planning in Academic Institutions,” in Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, Vol. 15, No. 5 (1984): 637–44.

3. H. Koontz and H. Weihrich, Essentials of Management (San Francisco: McGraw-Hill Publishing, 1990), 49.

4. Ibid., 49.

5. This is modified from “The Planning Pyramid” depicted in the Essentials of Management text on p. 47.

6. MacKinney, 640.

Chapter 3

1. George Barna, Without a Vision the People Perish (Glendale, Calif.: Barna Research Group, 1991), 145.

2. William G. Caldwell, “Mission,” in Evangelical Dictionary of Christian Education, ed. Michael D. Anthony (Grand Rapids: Baker Academics, 2001), 475.

3. Barna, 38.

4. Barna, 38–39.

5. Barna, 40–41.

6. Rick Warren, The Purpose-Driven Church (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1995), 81.

7. George Barna, Turning Vision into Action: Defining and Putting into Practice the Unique Vision God Has for Your Ministry (Ventura, Calif.: Regal, 1996), 145.

8. Barna, Without a Vision, 28.

9. Joel Hunter, “Clearing,” Leadership Journal (Spring 1999): 120–124.

10. Josh McDowell, Dave Hannah, and Rick Warren, “Influential Things Come in Small Packages,” Christianity Today, October 2003, 52–53....

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Half Title
• Full Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Contributors
• Introduction
• Part1
• Chapter1
• Chapter2
• Part2
• Chapter3
• Chapter4
• Chapter5
• Chapter6
• Chapter7
• Chapter8
• Part3
• Chapter9
• Chapter10
• Chapter11
• Chapter12
• Chapter13
• Part4
• Chapter14
• Chapter15
• Chapter16
• Part5
• Chapter17
• Chapter18
• Chapter19
• Chapter20
• Chapter21
• Part 6
• Chapter22
• Chapter23
• Notes