Scott Myers Model Of Leadership

This week Scott Myers came and spoke to our class about structures of leadership in the church. He has been at his position at McFarlan United Methodist Church for 22 years. That is one of the longest terms anyone has spent as a youth minister in one place. Since, he has been there for 22 years he has seen the church go through several different pastors and has seen the church change and grow as a ministry. In his talk today he discussed the different leaderships that he has worked under not only at McFarlan but at other churches as well. Since he is the youth minister, he is working as the second chair leader in these positions so he did not get to decide the type of leadership styles that the church worked under. I find that this is very helpful information because often times we view ourselves as leaders, and tend to forget that there is someone above us who is leading the way as well. One of the ways that he showed us was the corporate way of leadership. …show more content…
Scott says that he currently works under this style of leadership. In this style Scott does not report to the Sr. pastor directly but to someone bellow her who reports to her. I can see this working for big churches that have a lot of staff people, but not with churches that have a very small amount of staff people. One of the issues that I see with this model is that the youth director cannot decide anything that happens in the program that they are leading. Scott made it seem like he has no control over what it is that he teaches, or does through this program. It made me feel like Scott is a puppet and is not really a leader. However, he did say that the person he reports to basically just asks questions about what it is he is wanting to do. If the wrong person gets put into that position I feel like they might begin to be a dictator and control all the programs. I feel like this style of leadership would make me the most uncomfortable. The next style that he talked about was were each person would report to the pastor what is going on. This is the model that I am under right now. Ed just wants to know what we are doing in the ministry. Ed does not want to control what we do, but wants to be informed and bounce ideas and suggestions towards the plans. I feel like this is the best form of leadership because everyone has their own rolls, but at the same time work together to create new and exciting ways to make the programs flourish. However, at the same time I can see were this leadership style would not work. I feel like with this style you tend to have a lot of silo ministries and never one big ministry. Yet, I can see how one would have this leadership style without creating silo ministries. The way that I see this working is through communication and teamwork. If each ministry communicates with one another and talks about what it is that they are doing then, there is less conflicting of schedules that will happen. Teamwork in this method plays a big part. If teamwork does not happen then no one in one silo ministry will ever connect to another. This is why we tend to have lots of people