Spiritual and relational vitality has numerous implications for churches. A couple of these are a. Leadership is a key principle in leading congregational change. Both individual leaders and, especially, the vision community, must shoulder tremendous responsibilities throughout a transformational journey. Individual leaders, however, must not hoard leadership.
Leadership is intended to be shared and to be empowering to other emerging leaders.
Creating and nurturing teams of leaders is a crucial challenge for leading congregational change. Change and transition bring inevitable conflict. In churches that have clear vision and spiritual strategic direction, such conflict will be life-giving . Where there is not vision, such conflict is life-threatening . Churches need to spend more time getting ready for a change and transition process.