An alternative structure for gift-empowered ministry: an emerging paradigm at Saint John American Lutheran Church

Stephen C Lien

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An alternative structure for gift-empowered ministry: an emerging paradigm at Saint John American Lutheran Church

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MLA citation style (9th ed.)

Stephen C Lien. An Alternative Structure for Gift-empowered Ministry: an Emerging Paradigm At Saint John American Lutheran Church. Luther Seminary. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/5647a008-423d-4e1f-9d4e-259afa4243dd?locale=de.

APA citation style (7th ed.)

S. C. Lien. An alternative structure for gift-empowered ministry: an emerging paradigm at Saint John American Lutheran Church. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/5647a008-423d-4e1f-9d4e-259afa4243dd?locale=de

Chicago citation style (CMOS 17, author-date)

Stephen C Lien. An Alternative Structure for Gift-Empowered Ministry: an Emerging Paradigm At Saint John American Lutheran Church. Luther Seminary. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/5647a008-423d-4e1f-9d4e-259afa4243dd?locale=de.

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Stephen C Lien

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This project explores the experience of a Lutheran parish as old forms of congregational structure are dissolved in favor of a more amorphous, organic system of discerning, developing, and deploying spiritual gifts of members under the direction of ministry team leaders. All boards and committees are disbanded. Team leaders administer spiritual-gifts inventories to discover resources of lay people and employ them in meaningful service. If the church is to survive into the twenty-first century, it must be free to employ new organizational paradigms of leadership by lay people who are empowered to use God-given spiritual gifts.

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