ISBN: 9780217024297

This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1917. Not ill… Plus…

This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1917. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... XIII SETTING EVERY ONE AT WORK THE head of a factory employing 20,000 men declares, No greater question confronts us than the man question, which assumes two forms: first, to secure an adequate force of workers; and second, to insure their highest resultfulness. The pressure of these two questions is nowhere more serious than in the Church. When churches were small, without Sunday Schools or other organizations, with few changes in membership and little competition, the minister who had very simple tasks was able to do most of the work alone, just as could storekeepers and blacksmiths. But vastly enlarged modern churches, with great problems to solve in reaching and holding the people, with many new organizations and tasks, demand greatly increased forces developed and trained and handled with greatly increased skill, just as do modern department stores and steel corporations. Every minister should be enthusiastic and humble enough to do anything which needs to be done, but no efficient pastor can do half the work that needs attention today, even in the small church. Successful bankers, generals and merchants do not spend time on detail. They employ clerks and errand boys and lieutenants. Only a rare pastoral genius can attend to his necessary administrative and sermon duties when he spends half or three-fourths of his time on what others could do. Pulpit disaster and church bankruptcy often occur when a preacher tries to do what district, social, finance, missionary and other committees should do. The calamity of spiritual idlers is multiplied because much of even the simple church work must remain undone. Inactive church members lose their healthful appetites and respond only to sensational stories and statements, to special music and other spiritual... Albert Franklin Mcgarrah, Books, History, Modern Church Management; A Study In Efficiency Books>History This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Fleming H. Revell company in 1917 in 228 pages; Subjects: History / General; Religion / Christian Church / Administration; Religion / Christian Ministry / Pastoral Resources; Religion / Christian Church / General;<

ISBN: 9780217024297

This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1917. Not ill… Plus…

This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1917. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... XIII SETTING EVERY ONE AT WORK THE head of a factory employing 20,000 men declares, No greater question confronts us than the man question, which assumes two forms: first, to secure an adequate force of workers; and second, to insure their highest resultfulness. The pressure of these two questions is nowhere more serious than in the Church. When churches were small, without Sunday Schools or other organizations, with few changes in membership and little competition, the minister who had very simple tasks was able to do most of the work alone, just as could storekeepers and blacksmiths. But vastly enlarged modern churches, with great problems to solve in reaching and holding the people, with many new organizations and tasks, demand greatly increased forces developed and trained and handled with greatly increased skill, just as do modern department stores and steel corporations. Every minister should be enthusiastic and humble enough to do anything which needs to be done, but no efficient pastor can do half the work that needs attention today, even in the small church. Successful bankers, generals and merchants do not spend time on detail. They employ clerks and errand boys and lieutenants. Only a rare pastoral genius can attend to his necessary administrative and sermon duties when he spends half or three-fourths of his time on what others could do. Pulpit disaster and church bankruptcy often occur when a preacher tries to do what district, social, finance, missionary and other committees should do. The calamity of spiritual idlers is multiplied because much of even the simple church work must remain undone. Inactive church members lose their healthful appetites and respond only to sensational stories and statements, to special music and other spiritual... Albert Franklin Mcgarrah, Books, History, Modern Church Management; A Study In Efficiency Books>History, General Books LLC<