Church Business: Making the Business of Church Easier, Simpler, and Much Less Painful

Your sermons and Sunday morning services are rock solid. You love being a pastor and everything during church is wonderful...until Monday morning comes. In the church office during the week, you feel woefully ill-equipped and unprepared to make certain decisions that are expected of you. You had no idea that pastoral work involved so much business and you weren’t trained for this in seminary. You have come to realize and dread that a significant part of being a pastor has nothing to do with being a pastor. CHURCH BUSINESS is about educating pastors and other church leaders how to effectively manage through the business and administrative aspects of church leadership. Covering topics such as accounting, staffing, insurance, facilities, donor management, technology, and other best-practices in a church setting, this book provides easy to understand, yet comprehensive examples on how to simplify and maximize the business aspects of church leadership.Nathan Freeland shares both humorous and painful mistakes pastors have made and compares them with thoughtful and detailed examples of how to manage church business better. This book is for every pastor and church leader who seeks to maximize business strategies without compromising ministry or Biblical values. This book is not about theology, how to grow your church, or fixing a stagnant ministry. Rather, it is about improving and making easier the work that goes on in the church office, Monday through Friday.