ECLU is a safe and healthy community for leaders to ask their questions. While ECLU specializes in the areas of Discipleship, Team Building, Church Building, and Bible and Theology, we will help support you in your ministry needs. No consultations or appointments. ECLU gives every leader access to support for $15/month. direction for local church ministry leaders to implement an effective, integrated biblical worldview using existing curricular materials. The results of the "Biblical Worldview Integration for Effective Ministry" seminar processed through this project indicate initial success and a continued need for extensive application. Keywords: Charismatic leadership, church leadership, leade rship case study, transformational leadership. Available Online: 30-12-2015 This is an open access article under Creative Commons JOURNAL OF STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP 28 Making Better, Stronger Churches Through Organizational Design Journal of Strategic Leadership, Vol. 2 Iss. 1, 2009, pp. 27-39 essential to optimal church design, then developing effective systems in the church to keep everything running smoothly is equally important. JOURNAL OF STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP 31 A healthy church is a church where each person in the body is learning to function as a healthy part of the body. In order for a church to be healthy and function effectively, the best time to develop a healthy body is right from the beginning. The health of a church is determined by the maturity of the leadership and an Overall, the review revealed that shepherd leadership is a potent metaphoric illustration of leadership relevant to contemporary leadership practice. The metaphor is effective today as it was some universal, the course focuses on Christian or ganizations, particularly the local church. The course is designed to help students become more effective church leaders in both theory and practice. Course Objectives 1. The student shall understand the theory and philosophy of leadership in the broad sense. 2. Loving the Church as Christ does! The Church exists by what Christ has done for us in His glory and the production of His work. The church exists for us to be in Christ our Lord, to be His people, and His hands and feet. When we get this Truth we get how to lead and manage His Church! More Effective Resources for Leading your Church. Prayer Part 5 focused on the most important aspect of church leadership, the fact that Jesus Christ is the Head of His Church. This study highlights characteristics of church leaders and does not review the specific leadership qualifications listed in 1 Timothy 3 and Titus 1. As a point of clarification, "characteristic" is defined as a God. Spiritual leaders are supposed to use their church/ministry as an instrument in the lives of people who attend. Church is a disciple-making enterprise, so all the focus on our outcomes must ultimately be about people's spiritual development. Here are two final mandates for effective church leadership. A great need in most church leadership teams is equipping—both to equip current leaders and to help them learn how to equip others. (Coincidentally, this week I am presenting a retreat Ephesians 4 provides orientation for understanding the role, importance and result of effective, biblical equipping. Note the basic outline of Ephesians keys of an effective ministry. Regardless of where God uses you or how God uses you, it has to have these seven functions to ha