A good coach knows the game, has a creative approach to playing it, is able to recruit players and team leaders, then train them to function as a team. For clergy the game rules is the polity of one's particular denomination. It is essential to know not only what the different committees are, but why they exist, and how they all compliment each other. Without a financial foundation there will be no building, Church School material, salaries, or church utilities. The church building provides a place to worship, educate, have fellowship, and do the business of the church.
Property is important because it gives the church a place in which to function.
The property is also a strong symbolic statement of who and what the church is. Even though the property is important the church has to be more than buildings and and raising money. Every club and human organization possess both of these ingredients. When these two essentials become the primary reason for existence the congregation it ceases to be the Church. The church exists to preach the word, administer the Sacraments, convert the world, and nurture the community of faith.