Thom Rainer says there is a significant trend for churches to decentralize in two major areas:<\/p>\n
Facilities.<\/strong> \u201cJust 10 years ago, you could count on 99 percent of churches having a singular address. All the church\u2019s buildings were at one location. Most churches had their groups or Sunday School classes at that same location. Though it was biblically errant to say so, many people referred to the one location as \u2018the church.\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cToday, a growing number of churches have multiple locations. Among megachurches, those congregations with an average worship attendance of 2,000 or more, the move to the multisite model has been dramatic. Just 10 years ago, 27 percent of megachurches were multisite. Today the number is 62 percent! Such a massive change is breathtaking, but the multisite model is not limited to large churches. More and more medium and small churches are moving to this model as well.\u201d<\/p>\n Leadership.<\/strong> \u201cThough many churches have had a plurality of leadership for years, the trend toward decentralization of leadership has become more common. \u201cThe leader who was a senior pastor often was perceived to be at the top of an organization chart. \u2018Senior\u2019 thus referred to the person at the pinnacle of an hierarchal system. \u2018Lead pastor\u2019 is a move toward decentralization.\u201d [Read about the reasons for decentralization.]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Thom Rainer says there is a significant trend for churches to decentralize in two major areas: Facilities. \u201cJust 10 years ago, you could count on 99 percent of churches having a singular address. All the church\u2019s buildings were at one location. Most churches had their groups or Sunday School classes at that same location. Though … Continue reading “The Trend Toward Decentralization”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
For example, in multi-staff churches 10 years ago, the pastor was either known as \u2018pastor\u2019 or \u2018senior pastor,\u2019 but the label \u2018lead pastor\u2019 has become normative in a plurality of churches today.<\/p>\n