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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Empowering Leadership?

Empowering Leadership. It begins with church leaders (both staff and laity) who have an intimate relationship with God, resulting in Christ like character and a clear personal sense of God’s calling for their lives. As this base of spiritual maturity increases, effective ministers and leaders multiply, guide, empower, and equip disciples to realize their full potential in Christ and work together to accomplish God’s vision for his church.

 

Leaders of growing churches concentrate on empowering other Christians for ministry. They do not use lay workers as "helpers" in attaining their own goals and fulfilling their own visions. These pastors equip, support, motivate, and mentor individuals, enabling them to become all that God wants them to be. Rather than handling the bulk of church responsibilities on their own, they invest the majority of their time in discipleship, delegation, and multiplication. The Apostle Paul referred to this equipping when he said, "...for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ." (Eph. 4:12).

What does our low score indicate?

What the survey measures: To what extent is the ministry of the leaders focusing on equipping other Christians to serve?

What does Kingswood hope to achieve by raising the low Empowering Leadership score?

By improving this score we'll be one step closer to having a healthier church. Our leaders will be excited about serving in our church because they have the tools, training and necessary support to do an effective job and they see the fruits of their labor in that people are bring brought to Christ through their ministries.
 

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