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Seems that the Buck post is generating a little heat!! hahaha…

Allow me to clear up the code language….

What Grace has been wrestling with is by and large what most churches are wrestling with right now in the Western culture. In leadership, do you want one guy who has ‘trump card’ final authority. We can call it Senior Pastor, Directional Leader, Grand Pooh-bah of All Things Holy - it really doesn’t matter. The bottom line is - do you want one guy/gal who has the last word (and the word after that) on all issues.

OR do you want a team approach, a pluralistic approach to decisions and ministries. That’s the argument/wrestling match.

Minor note - I know a lot of Senior Pastors who have the title but refuse to function as the trump slammer. They think team is the deal and they keep the hammer in the back pocket and choose to not use it. So the ‘title’ of the position or polity has very little to do with this discussion. It’s the function of the entity that is important.

Like Deacons in a SBC church…we called ‘em deacons but they were elders. Slam us for bad vocab, not function.

That was the context I was speaking of. When we establish and lead ministries, we are going to lean to one of those ways. I lean toward the team way…because I think it’s biblical and I’m always right. hahahahahahah.

Now - comment away.