The senior pastor, the pastors and candidates needs to have a personal orientation toward God which finds expression through a lifestyle based upon biblical principles. Key areas to encourage include a fervent prayer life, a servanthood spirit, ethical and moral practices, and exercising faith.
Pastors need to be encouraging, nurturing, and challenging people both individually and corporately toward spiritual and emotional maturity. Key skills needed include counselling, preparing and conducting worship, discipling, preaching, and building core group cohesiveness.
Church leaders need to demonstrate standards of performance that increase the likelihood of qualitative and quantitative expansion of the church-planting work. To aid in this area, mentors can help associates in the following areas: personal motivation, commitment to church growth, learning to adapt to growth of the new church, and developing a capacity for seeing a preferred future (a vision).
The senior and associates candidates need to utilise godly methods to direct people toward His purposes. They need to learn to create ownership among the emerging core group for the ministry, utilise the available (spiritual and natural) gifts of people, motivate new participants in the emerging church work, develop initial church leadership, and have appropriate authority and influence.
The church leaders needs to develop basic administrative skills appropriate to his culture.
He needs to coordinate activities and resources for
best results. This includes organising Administrative structures, goal setting and planning, time management, and tracking and reporting information to denominational leaders .
Church leaders and saccociates need to be able to apply theory, policies, and practices from a relevant body of knowledge, in order to conduct the functions of ministry. They should have a basic working knowledge of the Scriptures and theology,
as required by the denominational leadership. Also, they should have basic knowledge in financial and numerical skills, government and legal regulations, ministry training and certification, denominational policies and practices, and church growth principles.
Church leaders need to be able to convey and receive information, feelings, and concepts in ways that enhance relationships and understanding between persons. They should develop skills in listening, networking, relationship building and relationship maintenance, and conflict resolution.