Leadership
Alternative Churches And Home Churches
How do we begin to help people who have been hurt by the mainstream church? My name is Craig Frost and the above question applies to me in many ways. I am a person that meets for worship in a very small and very new home fellowship in Lilydale, Victoria Australia. In fact we are […]
Food For Thought…The Church
Food for thought…the church… “If you went to the airport and there were no airplanes landing and there were no airplanes taking off, you’d say, ‘There’s a problem!’ If you went to the train station and there were no trains coming and no trains leaving, you’d say, ‘There’s a problem!’ So why is it that […]
Structure Of The Church
From a friend in the Uniting Church of Australia When I was about eight years old my family would occasionally catch the overnight train from Sydney to Melbourne. Did you ever get to Albury (or another state border) and have to change trains in the middle of the night because of a different rail gauge? […]
Sermon-Length
“In early churches through medieval times, worshippers stood throughout services, said Duncan Stroik, an associate professor of architecture at the University of Notre Dame. Pews began appearing as sermons lengthened.” Maybe not such a bad idea. At least there was space to dance!
Comfort Pews Luring Americans To Protestant Church Services
Chairs with cup holders and space and padding are finding their way into some American churches where clergy say the seat can be as important as the message. “For many first-timers, the only way they make contact with the church is on their behind,” said Steve Korn, a teaching pastor at CedarCreek, a nondenominational Christian […]
Accountability
A godly leader will choose accountability. To be accountable means to be responsible to others, to allow others to call one to account. An unaccountable person, on the other hand, will answer to no one outside of himself. The word “accountability” in English comes from the fourteenth century word accounts, meaning a record of money […]
Leadership Insights
I recently heard an address The Leader as a Visionary by a man called George Savvides during an Arrow Leadership course in Victoria. George, who is 45, and a former CEO of the Sigma drug company is the new CEO of Medibank Private. So he currently has a few challenges on his plate. George is […]
Emotional Freedom Technique
From a friend: I spoke to you briefly about a healing aid called EFT – Emotional Freedom Technique. You asked me to email you some info and here it is. This technique skips over the normal counselling frameworks and timeframes. Certainly an experienced counsellor will find the cores issues quicker but once established what the […]
Report From Copenhagen (Bill Hybels)
Dear E-News Friends, Maybe the best way to describe what happened at the Copenhagen Conference is to begin at the end. Some of you Creekers who used to go to rock concerts remember that if a concert went over the top, everybody lit their cigarette lighters and waved them back and forth over their heads […]
Protocols For Door Stewards
Clare wrote Obviously, when I walk into a church I’m very guarded of my physical boundaries, but that also means I’m more aware of the issues/problems than many. Here are my comments. Another had written: I’ve been asked to spell out some boundaries for door stewards. This may involve me in some conflict (so what’s […]
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