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How Church Leadership May Influence Growth by Applying an Organizational Life Cycle Perspective on Church Development. A Literature Study.
Birth, growth, and decline processes in organizations have been studied in the leadership literature for many years. An important perspective applied in this research has been the life cycle perspective. In the church growth literature, traces of the same research can be seen in some growth barriers studies. I discuss factors that influence growth processes, the strictness of the life cycles, challenges in the transitions between phases, and how these challenging transitions can be addressed for growth to continue in local churches. I argue that the life cycle perspective is relevant in a church context. I propose that many of the same challenges that other organizations meet also have to be handled in churches to prevent growth from slowing down or stop. I also suggest several organizational means to increase churches’ chance to pass challenging transitions and maintain further growth.
Inspirational Sources for Church Development A Discussion of Selected Topics from the Church Growth Movement and from Offshoots that Arose in its Wake
Hvordan bør menigheter arbeide med endring? En drøfting av relevansen av organisasjonsteoretiske perspektiver for endringstiltak i menigheter
Leadership and church identity. A discussion of how leadership in the local church can help to realize the true nature of the church
How Can Strategic Leadership be Applied to the Development of the Local Church? A Discussion of Content and Process
