"Leadership"
Trust builds with openness. Are you truthful about yourself? About what is really happening behind the scenes of the organization? In trustworthy people, there is an absence of slickness, slogans, and strategies that do not offer the full message. People do not feel tricked or duped. Trust builds with a reputation for hard work. Sermons reveal a craftsmanship of serious study. The pastor gives the congregation just a bit more than what it thought it paid for. Board and committee meetings are marked with thoughtful presentations and explanations. There is a sense that the pastor is on top of the job of congregational leadership.
Trust builds with a belief that the pastor has an impartial pastoral eye for everyone. The rich (major donors), the attractive, the young, or the influential are not uniquely favored. The pastor engages with the children, with the weak and the struggling, with the old, and with the more common person who serves in the congregation in places where recognition is scarce.
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