Why is vision theologically important for your church, and how should it be realized? How do church goals, objectives, metrics, core values, and culture play a crucial role in this? What kind of pastoral leadership is needed to bring God’s vision for your church to fruition?
Strategic Management for Churches
Strategic Management for Churches
Taught in English
Beginner level
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8 hours to complete
3 weeks at 2 hours a week
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What you'll learn
Articulate why strategic management is important for organizations.
Explain why and how to approach strategic management for churches theologically as strategic stewardship.
Assess your strategic stewardship of church vision, core values, culture, goals, objectives, and metrics.
Develop plans for establishing or modifying strategic stewardship for your church.
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Is there a vision or mission statement that directs your church, including its church admin? What work should it do and what kinds of pastoral leadership does it call for? This week, we will begin by addressing the theological importance of the church vision—your church’s go-to statement—as the foundational component of strategic stewardship for churches. Drawing on our church admin series’ overall approach of deploying management means for theological ends, we will first examine how vision functions as an effective strategic management tool in secular organizations. We will then unpack a theology of church vision in order to illumine how vision ought to be appropriated for the theological goals of the church. Lastly, given the theological importance and goals of church vision, we will delineate how and why your pastoral leadership is crucial for your church’s stewardship of church vision.
What's included
7 videos13 readings2 quizzes3 discussion prompts
Establishing a formal church vision statement is a significant step toward strategic stewardship. However, how will your church specifically achieve this vision? Church goals and objectives, the next two elements of strategic stewardship, are the means we will explore this week for realizing the church vision. If your church vision articulates where God is calling your church to go, then church goals and objectives should constitute God’s plan for how your church is to get there, in keeping with God’s calling for your church’s core values and culture. First, we will examine why and how goals and objectives are crucial for organizational vision. Then, we will explore how goals and objectives should be reappropriated for your church’s strategic stewardship, and lastly, how you should approach your pastoral leadership.
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6 videos5 readings1 quiz1 discussion prompt
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Duke University
Politecnico di Milano
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