Better Business
There is plenty of church business to be dealt with, but the more it can be handled behind the scenes, in small groups, the better. It is always best, when matters that come to floor of the general business meeting, have been studied in a small group meeting, then brought to the floor as a recommendation from that group.
Steve Echols, Associate professor of leadership, at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, wrote an article on the subject in which he said, “a number of churches have moved away from the traditional monthly business meeting. This is particularly true among new church starts in recent years. Other larger churches have moved to quarterly meetings that are more informational than volitional.”
There are a number of reasons why new church starts grow at a faster rate than do established churches, and perhaps this is one of the factors.
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