14 Traits Of Effective Church Leadership | SBS Accounting & Advisors

In this video, we will discuss fourteen traits of effective church leadership.
We must first understand that leadership at a church isn’t just about being a good preacher, but often it requires you being a good administrator too. It’s very easy to feel overwhelmed when having to solve complex financial problems.
1: Transparency
Transparent finances are honest finances. This means allowing your church to ask questions and to be heard about their concerns.
2: Honesty
Honesty is a philosophy, it is a way in which you conduct yourself and run your finances. It isn’t just answering hard questions, but acting in an honest way before the questions can even be asked.
3: Innovation
There are truths to handling your money in a proper way, and old ways of doing so that shouldn’t necessarily be changed. But the tools of finance have changed, and you should too.
4: Understanding & Compassion
Understanding and compassion is one of the most notable traits of a Christian, and yet it seems that we often forget to apply it to our daily lives. It’s ok to build into your finances the opportunity to have compassion on others, but we must also be willing to do what’s right in the moment and let God take care of us afterwards.
5: Drive
A driven person can be described as a person with a “get it done” attitude; someone who is willing to put in the time and effort to achieve the desired goal. When it comes to finance, a “get it done” attitude is one that is willing to “put its money where its mouth is”.
6: Wisdom
Sometimes the hardest part about having compassion on someone is not being able to understand what it is like to be them. In finance, the ability to do this will allow you the opportunity to have compassion on others and help others out without guilt of giving away to what may seem like a lost cause.
7: Confidence
In church, confidence is the Lord is what allows us to step out in faith and act. It’s what gives us the courage to start that next program, or build the new building. Confidence comes from faith the has been proven by God.
8: Direction
In business, clarity in direction comes from experience. In church finance, clarity in direction comes from God. It comes from seeking him in prayer and in His Word. And it comes from seeking the council of other trusted believers who are doing the same.
9: Humble
Often times the only way to achieve confidence and clarity is by making mistakes in the past and learning from them. But as a leader, the only way to remain in leadership is the ability to admit when a mistake has been made. When it comes to finances, admitting a mistake means that it can possibly be fixed before it’s too late.
10: Committed
Committing yourself to people can be painful and slow, but it also means that you will have someone to stand by you during the rough spots of life. When it comes to finance, committing to people means following through on what you’ve said that you will do.
11: Vision
Having a large and ambitious vision gives us a long term goal to aim at. This same trait can be applied to finance. It starts with setting that large and ambitious vision, but then following through by setting up an attainable budget and sticking to it.
12: Self-Belief
More than confidence, self-belief is the ability to believe in your own ability even without the expertise to back it up. In church, this self-belief can only come from trusting in the Lord and in His plan for you.
13: Problem-Solver
Being an effective leader requires the skill of problem-solving. The ability to look at a situation and come up with an effective means of getting from point-A to point-B. In church finance, this means having a willingness to look at a problem from every angle and a willingness to consider every option.
14: Passion
Finally, an effective leader must have a passion for what they teach. When it comes to church finance, this means having a passion to share the biblical model for handing money. Have a passion for handling your money the way that God wants it to be handled, it is ultimately His money after all.
Even once you’ve understood and applied all of these traits of effective church leadership, there still might come a circumstance where you need help and really just want to speak to an expert. We at SBS Accounting and Advisors would love to speak with you and discuss how we can help you and your church serve God and use his finances legally.
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If you need help with implementing these in your ministry, we’d love to help.
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