A Correlational Study of Servant Leadership and Successful Church Planting: A Case Study of the Redeemed Christian Church of God

Multiple leadership models have helped to build the Christian Church across history. This thesis investigates the option which is relevant to Redeemed Christian Church of God in North America (RCCGNA). The thesis chooses the servant leadership model after reviewing historical and contemporary models. The literature analyzed were the pre-modern, modern and postmodern leadership structures that exist within the communities represented by RCCGNA. Using statistically driven research methods to analyze sociological facts, the thesis presents servant leadership as a critical leadership constructs in church planting and church growth.
ANOVA statistical tool, t-test, and z test were used to analyze a pool of four hundred questionnaires administered in three assessed layers in a gender-balanced format at eighty different locations. An f-value of 0.01 and a table value of 4.86 showed a distinct significance for ministerial ethics as prerequisites for ministerial leadership positions. In testing the servant leadership characteristics, the z-test was calculated for ten characteristics of listening, empathy, healing, awareness, persuasion, conceptualization, foresight, stewardship, commitment to growth and building community. The tests show the respondents as efficient in every context except the three categories of Listening, Healing and Building Community. This work has implication for church planters globally. A web tool and three books will evolve from this research and all of it is geared towards empowering those who send missionaries to the field and those who have missionary plans.