Leadership
Letter To Leaders 271202
Here’s an edited version of an email I’ve just sent to my co-leaders at the Glen Eira Christian Community Church, where I’ve begun an interim pastoral ministry: Happy New Year to you and yours! May 2003 be a growing, learning, or perhaps healing year for you! * From time to time – mostly weekly, I’d […]
Good-To-Great Companies (Jim Collins)
Web-Exclusive Interview: Good Questions, Great Answers I want to give you a lobotomy about change. I want you to forget everything you’ve ever learned about what it takes to create great results. I want you to realize that nearly all operating prescriptions for creating large-scale corporate change are nothing but myths. The Myth of the […]
Boreham On Preaching
From Rev. Dr. Geoff Pound [12 November 2002]: F W Boreham wrote many things about preaching. I am encouraging one of my students to write a thesis on the preaching style of FWB. He gave a series of lectures in South Australia on preaching. I have searched libraries but this magazine account is the best […]
In-Basket Time Management
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-221 IN-BASKET TIME MANAGEMENT From ‘Sunrise Sunset’ (HarperCollins/Harper San Francisco), Rowland Croucher’s book of daily meditations. Feel free to use or adapt it. Remember how short my time is! Psalm 89:47. A man on a horse was galloping along the road. An old farmer standing in his field called out, ‘Hey, William, […]
Fund-Raising Idea
From a netfriend: David’s comment about selling donated clothes prompted me to reply (not as a criticism of David – great idea!). West Melbourne was involved in the local community festival last month, raising over $1000 through a trading table and offering pony rides. What made this a little different was that we did not […]
Leadership In Christian Churches
History is littered with examples of the Church adopting models of leadership from its cultural contexts, which have often been at odds with the heart of the Gospel and the earliest church traditions. The development of autocratic styles of leadership which culminated in the institution of the Papacy is an obvious example and one that […]
Towards A Transformed Rural Church And Community
Brian J. McGaffigan Rural living is enjoying a new prestige and interest in these days. It may be because things rural are perceived to be cleaner, safer, more beautiful, caring, a good place to bring up a family, or simply a place to garden. Is there an idealization of rural life? Alex Sims brings some […]
Stress Is A Killer
ARE YOU FIGHTING BACK? Chronic stress is a serious health risk. It can lead to depression, decreased brain function and memory loss, high blood pressure, heart attack, stroke, depleted immune system, diabetes and other life-threatening health problems. However, studies show that some people seem to be more resistant to stress than others. They are less […]
Church Music
A bi-weekly e-mail from George Barna We were privileged to conduct research regarding worship for the Billy Ray Hearn Symposium on Christian Music recently. In this Update, I want to share some of the key findings about worship: * Despite widespread media attention to the “worship wars,” just 7% of Protestant churches have “severe” or […]
Worship For Sale, Worship For Sale
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-228 (Leadership Issues) WORSHIP FOR SALE, WORSHIP FOR SALE by Terry Mattingly In the beginning, there were the Jesus People. They had long hair and short memories and they emerged from the 1960s with a unique fusion of evangelical faith and pop culture. They loved fellowship, but didn’t like frumpy churches. They […]
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