Being the Body of Christ in the Age of Management

"The church needs effective leaders.""We must be more missional.""Better organization is required."Such sentiments are commonplace among Christians concerned with the health and sustainability of their local church as well as the church universal. Over the past thirty years, the desire for more efficiently run, effectively led, and organizationally sound churches has contributed to an approach to thinking about the church in terms uncritically assumed from the business and management sector. Thi