FREE ESSAY ON A LEADER AND HIS CONGREGATION

A LEADER AND HIS CONGREGATION

A LEADER AND HIS CONGREGATION
There is an expanding church in Pine Hill that I attend each week. This church is 
filled with many great spiritual people who are like family in which you could share your

struggles of life with and then listen to them as they help you get through those
struggles. 
Our pastor is a loving man too and tries to help people as much as he can. He is like a
big 
teddy bear, because he is such a warm and comforting man. However, as the pastor of 
the church there are certain responsibilities and qualifications that he or she may need.

For example, a good pastor should live his or her life according to God's laws and it 
should be noticeable to those in the congregation. A good pastor should also have a 
loving and forgiving heart, and be the strong leader of the church. My pastor has all of

these things except the leadership skills. A leader is a person or thing that leads;
directing, 
commanding, or guiding head, as of a group or activity. Based upon this definition I 
would say that my pastor does not come even close to matching that description. Even 
though I love my pastor he is more of a person who teaches those in the congregation, as
a 
profession, then to lead those of the congregation as they need to be lead. The 
congregation can not stay strong without a good leader.
However, do not take this the wrong way because it is an excellent church overall 
and I love going there and participating in many ways. I feel the love from others just 
pour over me each and every week that I go to church, but I propose that either one of
two 
things need to take place to make the church complete. Either the congregation needs to 
realize that we need a new pastor who can lead us not just teach us, or we need to tell
him 
of his problems and then he, if he chooses to, can try to become a better leader so that

maybe we could keep him and become disciples of him.
If the congregation pulls together and deals with this problem than I believe that those

people of the church will benefit because we can get someone who is more of a leader 
then many people may just come to know Jesus Christ, and by knowing Jesus their lives 
may be touched in ways that most can not explain. Although this sounds all great, those 
who do not seek a new pastor may find out that later in their lives they will either have

Jesus in them but find that they can not lead others to him, or they themselves may never

get the chance to experience Jesus and all of the blessings from him.
Due to the fact that many people like this pastor, it may be hard to get everyone to 
agree with my view point. I have the elders of the church saying "the pastor is a man 
of God, and you can see it in his daily life. He is a good man and a good leader." The 
worship team says "although he may lack leadership skills he is a man of God and we 
need a pastor like him." In both of these cases each party says or hints at the fact that
he 
lacks leadership skills, and so this means that it recognizable to others as well as me.
Now 
the children are the future for this church and if we can not find a leader, than the
children 
will not be lead to become a doer or a follower of Christ and this church will slowly
peter 
out until it becomes nothing as it was in 1990. It will be just another church on the
block 
that some may notice as they are driving or walking by.