Restoring The Broken Pillars of Pastoral Leadership

December 3, 2025

Restoring The Broken Pillars of Pastoral Leadership

Rhea Ahkeen Doswell | 2024

Abstract

“Restoring The Broken Pillars of Pastoral Leadership” presents a scholarly and biblical perspective for readers and pastoral leadership to critique. In recent years, scandals have plagued the office of pastors nationally and internationally, from comprising church budgets to unethical personal behaviors, and increased skepticism of the role of pastors. The manuscript defends a pastors need to observe ten key pillars, to contour desirable pastoral leadership. A brief description of the pillars illustrated in the manuscript includes transformational & transactional leadership styles, and accountability, which allows a pastor to receive positive feedback, such as listening attentively to peers while evaluating one’s decision-making for group growth. Delegation and management skills generate healthy boundaries for pastors to adhere to.

Ethics and ethical leadership when applied appropriately, can derive from standards and practices, generated from one’s terminal values and beliefs, and impel opportunities for pastors to make sound judgments situationally. Each pastor embodies a unique background geographically and demographically, therefore, when pastors have the flexibility to discover the foundation of self-efficacy, the occurrence leads to increased self-esteem and identifies skills and individuality. Individuality establishes layers of self-control required for effective church leadership. Self-control permits a pastor to implement persuasion principles to achieve organizational goals.

One of the stressors pastors endure relates to ministry burnout. Exploring the many facets of HRD effectiveness clarifies one’s duties and presents accessible resources to accommodate personal and professional development. Comprehending the layers of reward and coercive power develops interventive measures to avoid the abuse of one’s ministerial role.

Keywords: Transformational & Transactional Leadership, Accountability, Delegation, Management, Ethics & Ethical Leadership, Self-Efficacy, Self-Control & Power

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