CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
- Background to the Study
In recent decades, the term “planning and organizing” has become popularized widely in management circles. Most managers today, are at least familiar with this terms and its general application. With the increasing rate at which church is established and the teeming challenges that beset many of these religious institutions. Despite all, some thrives while some failed to thrive despite operating in the same environment. This has informed the motive for considering this topic in addition to the fact that many churches are administered without the proper tools that are required to build a fruitful and a church with an upward growth curve even in the face of the storm.
Hence, the subject in question is worth it as we know that these are fundamentals for any administrative operations in any organization or establishment with the church inclusive. Planning and organizing are critical to the success of any organization. The interest in this subject is however, to clearly and carefully look at the interplay of these administrative tools and how it impacts the growth of the Church as we have evidences all around.
The twenty-first century could be described as a world that is exploding with change – Fast, frightening change. It is a mega change. Many institutions – business, government, the schools and the Church – and it is occurring at a number of levels: national, corporate, and individual. The result is a revolution taking place all around us that is likely to be as profound as any in the past. Some wrongly advise us just to be patient, that in time it will all pass. The reality is, however, that there is no end in sight.
Drucker’s opined that “we are living at one of those rare points in time when an old worldview (modernism) and many of its trappings are dying and another (postmodernism) is struggling to be born.[1] Where is the Church in all this? How is she doing? The typical Church does not understand the full implications of mega change. Even when a church has some understanding of the implications, it doesn’t know how to respond in effective ministry to those immersed in the postmodern paradigm. It is imperative that pastor be able not only to preach to a congregation, but lead very well which involves planning and organizing to effect dynamism into the system of the Church.