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Many lay leaders prefer it because it is easy to comprehend, to explain, and it eliminates many questions about accountability. " The laity, more than the clergy, appear to recognize the merits of placing both authority and accountability in the same person. ) Perhaps the chief disadvantage of this model reflects the fact that it is ideologically unacceptable to a growing number of highly competent, remarkably creative, and self-directed individuals who are far more comfortable in the role of ministerial colleague rather than subordinate.
Will It Be Different? It appears that a growing number of people are convinced that new models of staff relationships will evolve with the increase in the number of women holding the position of senior minister. (In mid-1987 this writer had been able to identify less than one hundred large multiple-staff churches in the United States served by a woman as the senior minister. ) Nearly everyone agrees that every social institution is affected by ideological considerations and values. The differences that will come in staff relationships with the increase in the number of women serving as senior ministers are yet to be determined.
Don escaped relatively unscathed. Six months after the farewell dinner for Sarah, the Larkins announced that Hank was retiring and they were moving to make their permanent home at a house on a lake they had purchased several years earlier. Two years later the entire episode was almost completely forgotten. The computer had another victim, two ad hoc committees had shielded Don from damage he did not deserve, and peace had come to the office at First Church. Earlier, on Pastor Johnson's second day as senior minister at First Church, the sixty-eight-year-old semi-retired minister of visitation caught Don for a few minutes and explained, "As you may or may not know, I told people here soon after I learned of Dr.