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ANS: A leading management consultant advises clergy to concentrate on their commission to preach and counsel. Ministers should be relieved of management activities, says Peter F. Barrenstein, German director of McKinsey & Company.

He recommends that local churches hire an executive to take care of managerial and administrative tasks. Pastors should be free for theological reflection and evangelism.

Neither should they be restricted to serving a small “core congregation” of faithful worshippers. “They should develop a counter strategy to a shrinking church," Barrenstein said in an interview with a German evangelical news agency.

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