The Role of Leadership in Numerical Church Growth: A Case Study of Selected Deliverance Church congregations.
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2011
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Daystar University, School of Arts and Social Sciences
Abstract
Church growth is an important aspect of any church anywhere in the world. This was an attempt to interrogate, understand and describe the role of church leadership umerical church growth of the Deliverance Church Ministry. The study was carried a case study of 12 selected Deliverance Church congregations, namely Umoja Church, Wanyee Close Deliverance Church, Kasarani Delivennce Church, Cay Center Deliverance church, Pangani and Eastliegh Deliverance Churches. The study Zhzed questionnaires, personal interviews, intemet and library materials as the tools to quality and relevant dataTo select the respondents, the researcher selected all senior pastors, two associate cr assistant pastors in churches where they are more than one (with exception of Riruta three pastors filled in the questionnaires), two Ministry leaders, and two church elders were selected as part of the sample from each church and they all responded to the questionnaires. Also, 12 interviews were carried out with the senior *stors. Senior Pastors from six fast growing Churches and six from the churches with sJow growth were interviewed. Therefore, the sample size for this study was 79. Purposive sampling was used in the selection of senior pastors to interview. Deliverance Church Ministry is one of the first Pentecostal/Charismatic Churches in Kenya and it is also among the fastest growing charismatic churches in Kenya. Most of the strong Deliverance Churches are now broadcasting messages through electronic media as avenues of church growth. The findings revealed that the fast growing churches experience growth due to the leaders' participation in church ministries, the sound preaching of the word, financial capabilities and the virtues of good leadership. This calls
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MASTER OF ARTS in Christian Ministries.
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Church growth, Deliverance Church Ministry, Good leadership
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Manene, G. M. (2011). The Role of Leadership in Numerical Church Growth: A Case Study of Selected Deliverance Church congregations. Daystar University, School of Arts and Social Sciences.