How to Have a Better Church Administration

                            
“Let all things be done decently and in order.”
‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭14:40‬ ‭KJV‬‬

Having leadership ability is a great asset in the lives of a pastor. But there is one essential thing a church leader, and that is, a better administration. If a pastor lacks better church administration, the productivity, and the growth of the church will be low. Leading the flocks, you must do it in a right way. There are good ways, and bad ways.

Therefore, In order to have a better church administration, the church leader must follow this principles.

1. Read good books about church administration
There are good Christian books out there about church administration, you can invest to get books about church administration to help you have a better one. Having a better church administration will increase your church productivity.

2. Ask pastors who are better in that area to help you
Experience is a hard teacher, because she gives the test first, the lessons afterward- Vernon Law
These pastors have probably gone through what you are going through right now, they have better way of solving lack of good church administration.
There are pastors who have better church administration, as a pastor, you should humble yourself to learn from them. It will save a lot of church chaos, and mess up in the future. There are pastors you can talk to, who can really help you on how to organize your church. Ask other pastors to evaluate you.

3. Attend Pastors conference and seminar
“Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the life-long attempt to acquire it”
Albert Einstein
There are small sessions of conferences that talk about church administration. It will be wise to attend these conference to learn more. The more you learn, they more you hone your weak administration.

4. Hire a staff who is better in church administration
As a pastor, knowing fully that you need a better church administration, you can hire an asistant pastor who can organize things in the church, and you make him accountable to you. Here is another things, you must be willing to give him the chance to do his work.

5. Be willing to change
Don’t be too rigid in your way of church administration, you must be willing to change from good to better. If the system you are using is not helping your people, change it.
You must do the thing you think you cannot do- Eleanor Roosevelt
Please feel free to add any suggestion to these above points to help others.

Written by Abraham Adeyemi.