No Longer The Lone Ranger Summary
A Subjective View of Staff Your Church for Spiritual Growth
The title of the first chapter of this book is No Longer the Lone Ranger. I remember watching the Lone Ranger on television when I was younger with my father. The Lone Ranger was a fictional cowboy that alone fought the bad people and rid towns of illegal activity. Traditionally, the pastor in many cases was the solo leader of the church. He had mountains of responsibilities during those times, but he was able to handle most of the responsibilities on his own. The church of today needs multiple staff members to work along side the Pastor. The book on pages 12-16 gives reasons why there should be multiple staff members in the church.
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They may lack professional training.
2. They may be "without honor in their own country."
3. They may be difficult to confront and fire.
4. They may have tunnel vision.
All of these benefits and drawbacks seem logical, but there is one drawback I did not understand the meaning of. The drawback was number two: They may be "without honor in their own country." I could not even provide a guess of the meaning. The book does suggest that the information provided on Adding Team Members is only a starting point because all churches are different. Prayer should be the primary determining factor in deciding which direction to turn when adding new staff members. I think that that prayer is very important in any decision process. Chapter four is titled Recruiting Staff. I cannot give an opinioned summary other than what I provided in The Objective View of Staff Your Church. Chapter four opens with the following statement by William M. Easum:
Hire staff to equip the laity not to do ministry.
That is a very interesting quote because it seems as if you should hire staff to do both. What I think that this quote means is that if you hire staff members to equip the lay members of the church, then ministry will come through in a much more profound
The title of the first chapter of this book is No Longer the Lone Ranger. I remember watching the Lone Ranger on television when I was younger with my father. The Lone Ranger was a fictional cowboy that alone fought the bad people and rid towns of illegal activity. Traditionally, the pastor in many cases was the solo leader of the church. He had mountains of responsibilities during those times, but he was able to handle most of the responsibilities on his own. The church of today needs multiple staff members to work along side the Pastor. The book on pages 12-16 gives reasons why there should be multiple staff members in the church.
The reasons listed for the need of multiple …show more content…
They may lack professional training.
2. They may be "without honor in their own country."
3. They may be difficult to confront and fire.
4. They may have tunnel vision.
All of these benefits and drawbacks seem logical, but there is one drawback I did not understand the meaning of. The drawback was number two: They may be "without honor in their own country." I could not even provide a guess of the meaning. The book does suggest that the information provided on Adding Team Members is only a starting point because all churches are different. Prayer should be the primary determining factor in deciding which direction to turn when adding new staff members. I think that that prayer is very important in any decision process. Chapter four is titled Recruiting Staff. I cannot give an opinioned summary other than what I provided in The Objective View of Staff Your Church. Chapter four opens with the following statement by William M. Easum:
Hire staff to equip the laity not to do ministry.
That is a very interesting quote because it seems as if you should hire staff to do both. What I think that this quote means is that if you hire staff members to equip the lay members of the church, then ministry will come through in a much more profound