Redefining the Pastor’s Role
From Senior Pastor to Pastor, Church Manager, and the Body — the spiritual core stays with the pastor; the operational duties move to where they belong.
Orientation
Read in order
The biblical pattern — Acts 6
This principle is not new.
Before — everything in one office
In the typical model drawn from four churches, a single person is expected to do all of the following.
After — the same work, rightly distributed
Each duty is reassigned to whoever is best placed to carry it.
Four duties that move off the pastor
These four are the places the line most often blurs.
On the shoulders of the Saints and elders
The weight that comes off the pastor does not all move to the Church Manager.
The Church Manager and the Committee
The Church Manager carries the operational load, but is deliberately kept separate from governance.
The “after” pastor — a deliberately narrow role
What remains is a focused, spiritual role — and a fuller one, because the pastor now has the time to do it well:
Existing churches — transition and restructure
Many existing churches already have a Senior Pastor carrying the whole load.
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