Transformational Leadership
April 7, 2009
I have been going to God's House Ministries for the past three and a half years and I think this theory describes well the atmosphere of God's House. The biggest key indicator came from an interview I had with Pastor about preaching. He said: "I don't feel the need to add any new information to the world. The world doesn't need a lot of information. What it needs is inspiration. I try to ask myself 'would I be inspired by this?' as I am writing a sermon and even as I am preaching..." and he makes changes accordingly. The Transformational Leader is primarily characterized by a person who inspires other and is able to instill them with enthusiasm and energy.
Descriptions of the Transformational Leadership type include the description that the leader mostly gives back in intangible ways such as praise and responsibility. Pastor has told me he loves to give people a chance to take responsibility and nurture something themselves that they want to see happen. Also, Pastor is the only paid staff member (and he is bi-vocational) at a church of almost 500! Obviously, he tends to give more through intangible means than anything. Instead, he praises the good work people do through his sermons as it applies to the message and they have a periodic leadership lunch for anyone who wants to get involved and he brings up the leaders in the church, praising the work they have accomplished and the other people involved with those ministries.
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