Every year I go on a retreat with administrative pastors from like-minded churches. And every year, Alex Duke (9Marks editor and my coworker at church) makes fun of me. “What are you guys going to do? Pull out your TI83 calculators? Look at a bunch of spreadsheets together?” Ha ha ha.
Jokes aside, the average member of my church (and I’d assume other churches as well) does not have a good idea of what an administrative pastor actually does. Vague thoughts of building maintenance or paying the bills are usually what people have in mind. Sure, we often handle those things or supervise someone else who does. But being an administrative pastor is much more than that. At the end of the day, good administration is necessary for a healthy church.
What’s Administration—and Who’s Good for It?
What is administration? Likely, one of the first things we think about when we hear the word administration is government: “Under my administration…” or “This administration has done….” Has the church today co-opted this word? I don’t think
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