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EMPOWERING UNITY: THE ROLE OF LEADERS IN MULTICULTURAL CHURCH COMMUNITIES

Adebayo Michael Oladipo·Nkechi Ifeoma Chukwu
Published 27 February 2025
Vol. 11, No. 4 (2023)
pp. 11-27
CC BY 4.0
  1. 1
    Adebayo Michael Oladipo
    Department of Religious Studies, Lead City University Ibadan, Nigeria
    NG
  2. 2
    Nkechi Ifeoma Chukwu
    Department of Religious Studies, Lead City University Ibadan, Nigeria
    NG

As vital as pastoral leadership skill is to the spiritual growth of a multicultural church, likewise it becomes a problem when leaders are not efficient in demonstrating skills in moving the church forward. The situation of some pastors or church leaders in multicultural churches who exhibited inefficiency of leadership skills which adversely affected both the spiritual growth and relationship growth of their local churches poses a challenge to this paper. It is expected of leaders in a multicultural church to preach and teach true scripture without bias for the spiritual growth of the members and also maintain biblical discipline, which is a predominant way of improving leadership skills in a multicultural church. Every church leader is expected to see him or herself as a member of all cultural groups present in the church, being as well a predominant way of improving leadership skills in a multicultural church. Leaders should avoid ethnocentrism in decision making within the church as a means of improving leadership skills in a multicultural church. Leaders should learn other languages and use them while communicating with his/her congregation as a way of improving leadership skills in a multicultural church, focusing attention on preaching and teaching true scripture without bias for the spiritual growth of the members, and also maintain biblical discipline; seeing oneself as member of all cultural groups present in the church; and understanding and respecting core value of other cultures. To achieve a desired goal, a leader is obligated to set up these goals right; reduce conflict, recognition of others, respect for cultural differences, and healthy interaction between cultures.

JournalJournal of Human Resource and Organizational Behaviors
ISSN3065-0542
Volume / IssueVol. 11, No. 4 (2023)
Pages11-27
Published27 February 2025
Access Open Access
LicenseCC BY 4.0 — reuse with attribution
PublisherKeith Publications
Oladipo, A., Chukwu , N. (2025). EMPOWERING UNITY: THE ROLE OF LEADERS IN MULTICULTURAL CHURCH COMMUNITIES. Journal of Human Resource and Organizational Behaviors, Vol. 11 No. 4, pp. 11-27

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