Kingdom Administration

Andy Childerhouse

Administration in the church is concerned with providing wise counsel, knowledge and insight, direction and leadership. It makes things happen, planning, organizing, supervising and helping, and equipping and releasing others. The biblical model is one where the administrator (Kubernesis) supports the apostle to build and establish the church and in so doing to extend the kingdom of God. The administrator’s role, and the Gospel of Jesus, cannot be properly understood without an adequate understanding of the Kingdom of God. The kingdom of God was the topic that Jesus spoke most about. Without an understanding of the kingdom of God, an administrator may labour and build a work that is superficially impressive (e.g. with a smart, new building and a large congregation) but which fails in its mission of advancing the kingdom.