Abstract
Pastors and congregations of 18 Grace Brethren churches were studied to see whether
there is a relationship between pastors whose leadership style is transformational, and
congregations who exhibit the seven practices of Transformational Churches. The
theoretical base for the study is transformational leadership theory, as developed
originally by James MacGregor Burns, Bernard Bass, and Ronald Riggio. Pastoral
leadership style was determined through administration of the Multifactor Leadership
Questionnaire short form (MLQ5X) and the level of transformational practices in the
congregations was determined through administration of the Transformational Church
Assessment Tool (TCAT). Statistical procedures were used to test the null and research
hypotheses for statistical significance. The findings did not indicate a significant
statistical relationship between pastors whose leadership style was primarily
transformational, as measured by the MLQ (5X) and congregations who were
transformational in character, as measured by the TCAT.
Keywords: transformational leadership, clergy leadership style, pastoral
leadership style, transformational churches, church leadership