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The Development of Spiritual Leadership for Church Growth

The Korean church had been faced the tendency of the decline of Church growth. fundamentally, the crisis was caused by the lack of qualified Christian Leadership for church ministry. Under this current situation of crisis this article tried to confirm and analyze those problems of the lack of Christian leadership. Generally the leadership means to lead members to the specific goals for the groups. There are many definitions for the leadership. But in the context of the church ministry, there are clear differences between the spiritual leadership and the secular leadership.Above all, the spiritual leadership emphasize on the Bible, church and the faith to the God. In the spiritual leadership, the purpose of the leadership is not ruling his group. In the Bible, Jesus told us clearly in that fact. Jesus said that who want to be a leader should become a servant first. And Jesus Christ encapsulated the gospel into two commandments. He said to love God with our total being and our neighbor as ourselves. Effective leadership should be follow those two commandments A future question that arises for the spiritual leadership is about how can we develop the spiritual leadership. For the future ministry, we have to consider radical changes in our society. It is said that in the twenty-first century, to limit church by area will be meaningless. And the influences of the computer and multimedia is stronger than before. People will seek more spiritual relief in the church. This article explored the spiritual leadership for the future ministry. When we face our circumstances we can notice easily that the future would be very different with all technical developments. We found already radical changes in our daily life. The future ministries confront severe challenge from the radical changes and high-technical society. How can the church survive under those radical changes? Therefore this article tried to describe about future changes. Our church needs to attempt new techniques for our future ministry. But the most important thing is even its methodology can be changed but not the essence of Gospel. We have to establish our future on the Word of God. Future ministries will claim more spiritual leadership than ever. Stronger spiritual leadership will be requested because of those rapid changes in our society. So in this article suggest some helpful tips it can help to develop effective Christian leadership for the future ministry and church growth .