Friday, August 17, 2007

Corps Officers - essential requirements

If there was a job description for Salvation Army Corps Officers I’d like to think the following would be listed under ‘essential requirements’
  • Leadership skills (how to make awkward decisions)
  • Administrative skills (how to organise your time rather than allowing it to organise you!)
  • Soul winning (how to close the deal)

  • Practical holiness (how to experience daily victory over the world, the flesh and the devil)

  • Spiritual gifts (how to acquire and use them)
  • Spiritual warfare (How to attack and defend!)
Corps Officers today have immense autonomy and are largely unmonitored – this lack of accountability and increased independence is a dangerous mix which can result in incompetent leadership.

When it comes to Officers shouldn’t quality matter more than quantity because quantity without quality equals decay whereas quality will always reproduce itself.

Love and prayers

A

1 comment:

Captain Andrew Clark said...

I agree with what you say - I for one would welcome an inspection from my Divisional Commander a)because I have nothing to hide and sufficient enough work to be inspected and b)it would settle my mind about our comrades who can sometimes be doing less for the kingdom than what they could me.

Still, there can be a culture of measuring where we've filed this and that and if we've sent such an such a form, but no or little interest in the kingdom results of ministry.

Lord help us.

AC

Hope you are healing well