Today’s guest post comes to us from Michael Duduit for Preaching.com.
When I helped plant a church in my area four years ago, we adopted a different leadership model: a preaching team of three that planned together and rotated services for preaching. I found it to be a helpful and stimulating experience as a pastor.
In a recent article for LifeWay Pastors, Todd Wright talks about benefits he has seen through developing a preaching/teaching team. Here are three of them:
It helps conquer a “God Complex” in the pastor and church. People in the pew too often make gods out of pastors, and too often pastors embrace their efforts. Developing a preaching team helps maximize the influence of Bible teaching rather than a single pastor’s personality.
It improves the sermons for the congregation and the preachers. For many years I planned my sermons and series alone. Now I work with a team. Everyone on the team gives input and creative ideas with the goal of teaching for greater impact and life change. In every case, the series, sermon, and preacher are better because of the team.
It helps refresh the lead pastor. I remember the days of preaching every Sunday morning and evening and Wednesday evening, and even planning my vacations around Sundays. Now I preach 60% of the Sundays and the other 40% are shared with two teaching pastors on staff. I see some of the greatest movements of God happen when others on the team are preaching. God can use them too, while I’m taking a break. It’s a win-win!
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