The Business-Modeled Church7 min read

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     In our culture nowadays (especially in the U.S.), businesses are everything. Either you are an influential corporate CEO, help manage a large company, run your own small business, or work for a local or online business. Each business has, or should have, a corporate structure (the leadership hierarchy), and a good business model to help it succeed (that is, a plan for how it is going to attract and keep its customers, and make money).

     But should the business model be transferred over to leading God's Church? In a nutshell, we contend that a man-made model for a God-made institution falls short of achieving a God-ordained purpose.

 

Key Questions

     You may be asking yourself, "Why shouldn't the Church use corporate business structures and models, especially if they work?" To this, we would ask, would God approve of such leadership structures and business models? Are there not already leadership structures and administration models within the Bible itself that the Church is to follow? What makes us think that our human ways are better than God's perfect ways? Do these models really work? And who, exactly, do these models serve and/or benefit? 

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