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You need Stewards/Elders/Deacons (whatever your denomination calls
them) who will work with you rather than against
you. When you're looking to appoint new Stewards, pick the ones who
are growing fastest in the Holy Spirit: leaders reproduce the kind of
Christians they are themselves, so by appointing this kind
of person to leadership you are effectively giving permission to the
congregation to grow spiritually like them.
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Change is (usually) good: if you're not changing, you're vegetating.
You need new births to keep youth and vitality. Even if you've already
got an excellent team of church officers from last year - CHANGE
IT! It maintains freshness.
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3 things you need:
(i) the anointing of the Holy Spirit
and forget the other 2.
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Until you get to know people thoroughly, attach a question mark
(meaning 'well, perhaps') to everything everyone says. Some people
(even well-spoken, well-educated people) are fruit- and nut-cases.
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me, christopher@methodist.org ,
other tips and suggestions they would like to have known when they
started - for possible inclusion here.