TITLE:
Need for Self-Management of Local Churches in the Process of Church Leadership Development
AUTHORS:
Gabriel Eliya Namunyuka, Vital Ngenduku, Etienne Katabirora, Raoul Dukore, Matabaro Manegabe, Jamilla Mc Steins, Daniel Ndikumasabo, Aimable Sindayihaririza, Leonard Ndayisenga, Jean Claude Ingabire, Jean Paul Nibitanga
KEYWORDS:
Self-Management, Local Churches, Church, Leadership, Development, Leaders
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.10 No.12,
November
8,
2022
ABSTRACT: The development of church leadership depends on the empowerment of local
churches self-governing. Provide such responsibility to local churches is biblical
and it has its foundation through the Holy Scripture. Improve a strong
Christian leadership today requires to apply
strategies of development based on Christ leadership. This may help us to
deeply understand the task of leaders and self-governing local churches in
church leadership development. To give the local churches the power of
self-management contribute to the development of economy, moral, politics,
social, spiritual, and cultural aspect of leaders. The church may reach that
level through training and developing leadership skills for all believers if
all put themselves in the school of the Holy Spirit. It was found during this
research that the self-management of local churches is the source of
misunderstanding between leaders and local churches in developing church
leadership. The results of the survey show that around 76.19% say yes to the
assumption, and around 23.80% say
no. We have also discovered that strategies for local churches self-management
in developing church leadership need to be determined. The expression of
respondents is of the order of 83 out of 84, around 98.80% of respondents who
said yes, and 1.19% of respondents said no. We also found that the majority of
our respondents, around 85.71% say that leaders do not fully assume their roles
in the development of church leadership, while only 14.28% refute this hypothesis. We also found 88.09% of respondents argue
that local churches do not fully assume their roles in developing church
leadership, and around 11.90% oppose this assumption. And finally, respondents
affirmed that the self-management of local churches contributes to the
development of church leadership. The results collected in the field prove that
90.47% of our respondents accepted this hypothesis and 9.52% rejected it. Due
to the findings, both leaders and self-governing churches must involve in developing
Church leadership by responding to their duties in the Church. Conversely, no
Church leadership development can happen.