Leadership
Seminaries
‘STRESS’ AND ‘BURNOUT’ IN PARISH MINISTRY SOME IMPLICATIONS FOR SEMINARY TRAINING. Rowland Croucher (with Philip Hughes). Abstract. ‘As goes the seminary today, so goes the church tomorrow!’ We have examined what Australian 250 ex-pastors have said about seminary training – both in their spiritual formation and relevance in terms of vocational formation. Rowland Croucher, who […]
Statistics
According to statistician David Barrett (USA), the world population grew to 5.804 billion in 1996; 1.843 billion of those are under 15 years old. There are 1.715 billion poor people living in cities, with an additional 970 million living in slums. The church continues to grow rapidly: of the 1.782 billion church members, 1.302 billion […]
Christianity/Islam
(December 1996). (RNT) Growth in Christianity is keeping pace with world population growth. Christians comprise 33.9% of the world’s 5.89 billion people today, according to researcher David Barrett. That’s up slightly from 33.7% of the world’s 3.7 billion people in 1970. Barrett is compiling the figures for the next edition of the World Christian Encyclopedia, […]
Pastoral Care
as at Feb 1st, 1996 The Position. The Associate Pastor for Pastoral Care will be a mature Christian; an accredited/ordained member of the …. Denomination; and a member of the … Church; who, through their calling, example and experience will have demonstrated a high level of commitment to the spiritual, relational and personal growth of […]
Shattered Vows
(by David Rice, London: Michael Joseph, 1989) It is better that scandals arise than that truth be silenced. St. Gregory the Great The sexuality (or asexuality) and sexual practices (or celibacy) of holy people have always fascinated other mortals. When moralistic televangelists have their adulteries exposed, the news pushes superpower politics to page three. Morris […]
Preaching Evaluation
Most pastors get informal feedback about their preaching (3% – mostly li’l old ladies – will always say the sermon’s nice), but most do not initiate a formal performance appraisal to get wise/helpful suggestions. Bill Hybels asks his elders to do it: twenty minutes after the end of the service the chairman of elders gives […]
The Abc’s Of Effective Pastoral Leadership
The Australian weekly, The Bulletin, regularly searches for the ‘young executive of the year’. The winners will have displayed ‘success and flair in the broad range of skills required in business today. These include initiative, commitment, skills in managing people, planning and financial ability, grasp of opportunity and judgment. They will be men or women […]
Cult Suicides
This page came to me via Youth Specialties. Thought it may be of use to some – especially for your youth leaders. Rowland ….. Are your youth group kids asking questions as a result of the Heaven’s Gate suicides? Then here’s some material that you could use in a talk addressing this tragedy and cults […]
Leadership
At Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, are the carved figures of four great U.S. presidents – Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. Gutson Borglum was the artist and when asked how he did it, he modestly replied: ‘Well, those figures were there for forty million years. All I had to do was dynamite 400,000 tons of […]
Commandments For Pastors
Two ‘letters from the heart’ – one from a pastor, another from a deacon – in a state Baptist paper got me thinking. (Actually that’s my job -reflecting about, and running seminars on how pastors and church leaders relate. I’m also a pastor, married to a pastor, and I’m a ‘lay-person’ in my church, Heathmont […]
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