Pastor church to Team church

I think Arlin Rothauge has lots to teach us about church size theory.

http://www.congregationalresources.org/article0132.asp

I can see we as a ministry are on the verge of the change from pastor
church to team church.

We have been in some ways operating as a team church but it most ways
operating as a pastor church.

In order to grow we need to become wholistically a team church.

Applications of this are:

1. Last Sunday the data projector had the top of the display cut off
meaning you couldn't easily read the top line of any of the songs. My
temptation (acting in the pastor church model) was to take
responsibility and get up and fix it. But acting under instructions
from Matt Lemsing (our executive pastor) I sat on my hands. He says I
need to train others to take responsibility for things by not fixing
the problems myself.

2. On Monday night we have a meeting of our new finance and property
committee (church council in Anglican speak). I am not going. This
is not because I don't care about what decisions are made, but the way
to train others to own the issues is to give them freedom to make
decisions by me not going, then others will step up and lead.

I am really excited about both seeing these areas of applying the
theory and us starting to live them out.

The church size theory says that it's hard to move from one size model
to another. The hardest is the change from pastor church to team
church. The difficulties are the pastor not letting go and the
members not stepping up (and the recursive pattern that develops).

Please pray for us that both I, our new elders (next post) and our
members would all make this change.