Rowland Croucher
Spiritual Abuse
DECLARATION OF PURPOSE REGARDING SPIRITUAL ABUSE AIM & PURPOSE OF THIS DOCUMENT This document is an attempt by this church to identify, highlight and unreservedly stand against any form of spiritual abuse being practiced, permitted or tolerated within our community and/or influence, and to make a public declaration of purpose to this end before this […]
Church ‘Best Practices’
Submitted by a thoughtful pastor: 1. ensure that at least 10% of the church budget goes to the poor 2. ensure that at least 10% of the church budget goes to local mission initiatives 3. ensure that staff do not work more then 50 hours pw 4. ensure that all committees are disbanded 5. ensure […]
Churches and Change
Hi Rowland, Phyllis Tickle in her book “The Great Emergence’ states that every five hundred years the Church finds itself going through a ‘reformation’ the author says, “every five hundred the church has a giant rummage sale” now this can never be described as a practise as such, but more an ‘awareness’ this word is […]
Healthy Churches
A brief resum © of my co-authored book ‘How to Close your Church without even Trying’! If I had to summarise ten churches’ best practices, I would include: 1. Handling diversity well 2. Encouraging shared, team ministry 3. Developing genuine, biblical servant leadership 4. Fostering good administrative practices 5. Having a vision for growth 6. Using […]
Churches’ Best Practices
Churches’ Best Practices: (From a thoughtful friend) 1. Encourage and practise openness and truth, even when it might seem to affirm those with a barrow to push, or ‘wash our dirty linen in public’. This means having well advertised processes of complaint and suggestions to the leadership. 2. Embrace diversity in ‘non core’ Christian theology, […]
Church Best Practices
From another thoughtful friend: “Best Practices” could mean several things, but I will voice a few which may not qualify as “practices” but certainly contribute to the culture of the church. **A tremendous greeting commonly practiced in India is “Namaste”….The Spirit in Me honors the Spirit in You. A great base for a church….or other […]
Healthy Churches
Another, from a retired pastor: When we retired we visited a number of churches, looking for one to become involved with. This experience was a bit of a shock. The following are the matters that were somewhat of a measuring stick of things we were looking for. These are not in any particular order. We […]
Best Practices in a Healthy Church
The following was submitted to a Pentecostal Church with whom I’ve been consulting: Dear friends I’ve been asked to provide a report for the Board. I’d suggest looking at some or all of the following: 1. WHAT DOES A HEALTHY CHURCH LOOK LIKE? 100 Marks of a Healthy Church – http://jmm.org.au/articles/8825.htm Case-Study of a healthy […]
New versions of the Bible
A few of you will be older enough to remember the red letter Bibles,where all the words of Jesus were printed in red. Well the UK Bible Society*** has come up with a new twist. First,THE POVERTY AND JUSTICE BIBLE Of the 31000 verses in the Bible,2848 are highlighted in the new publication,The Poverty and […]
Monotheism, Polytheism, and Violence
*Sightings* 10/20/08 — Martin E. Marty “Hindu Threat to Christians: Convert or Flee,” Somini Sengupta’s front page story in the October 12th *New York Times*, is part of one day’s additions to my bulging clippings file on religiously-inspired terror, war, and violence, in the name of…(fill in the blank). The file bulges as I prepare […]
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