SOCIAL CAPITAL SUPPORT ON PASTORAL COMPETENCE IN THE PERFORMANCE OF THE CHURCH

Competence is an essential thing in the development and growth of an
organization. The church is an organizational unit that requires pastoral competence.
Pastoral competence needs to be developed in improving church performance. A pastor
must be able to have the social capital to improve church performance. The population
of this study was pastors throughout Indonesia. The sample in this study were pastors of
the Pentecostal Church in Indonesia (GPdI) spread across several regions in Indonesia
as many as 42 pastors. The method in this study uses quantitative methods with SEM-
PLS. The results showed that the competence of the pastor affects social capital. It can
be seen from the analysis test showing that the variable considered to be significant if the
P-value is smaller than the predetermined significant value (0.000 < 0.05), thus
hypothesis H1 is accepted. The results of the study show that there is a relationship
between social capital and church performance. It can be shown by the results of the
SEM-PLS analysis showing that the P-value is smaller than the predetermined significant
value (0.000 < 0.05); thus, hypothesis H2 is accepted. The results showed that there was
a relationship between social capital and church performance. The results showed that
there was a relationship between social capital and performance. It shows that the P-
value is smaller than the predetermined significant value (0.000 < 0.05). Thus the
hypothesis H3 is accepted. The originality of this study is that the competence of a pastor
affects social capital, using several new dimensions that previous researchers have not
studied