Author(s)

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

Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Theological Studies, Hope Africa University, Bujumbura, Burundi.

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.

Self-Management, Local Churches, Church, Leadership, Development, Leaders

Namunyuka, G. , Ngenduku, V. , Katabirora, E. , Dukore, R. , Manegabe, M. , Mc Steins, J. , Ndikumasabo, D. , Sindayihaririza, A. , Ndayisenga, L. , Ingabire, J. and Nibitanga, J. (2022) Need for Self-Management of Local Churches in the Process of Church Leadership Development. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 10, 223-240. doi: 10.4236/jss.2022.1012015.