Leadership
Leadership: Loose Coupling
Andrew Lack 47 Deptford Ave Kings Langley NSW 2147 email Personal Reactions In 1996, I moved from a conservative high school of 600 students, with a highly centralised organisation, to a risk-taking K-12 school of 900 students with a diffuse management structure. As a coordinator, I struggled with the feeling that my management role was […]
Why Some People Attend Church
NOT ALL AS IT SEEMS (EP News) Priests in a local Milan parish mistook a young couple’s frequent visits to the church as devotion to a Madonna statue as the two sat quietly in front of it for an hour on a regular basis. The couple had been visiting the church for about a month […]
The Future Of Work In A Changing World (Charles Handy)
Interview with Charles Handy by Maxim Jean-Louis If you put a frog in a pot of cold water and slowly heat it, the frog adapts its body temperature to that of the water until at 100 degrees centigrade it boils alive. Charles Handy uses this story to illustrate the dangers for people who do not […]
A Pastoral Survival Guide [7]
7. PROBLEM-SOLVING. Norman Vincent Peale used to pray, ‘Lord, give me ten man-sized problems today please!’ Smart leaders have the mind-set that no problem is so large that it can’t be solved. They are solution focused. (However, let’s be compassionate at this point, too: some people have enough problems already, and they aren’t inclined to […]
A Pastoral Survival Guide [8]
8. THE ‘VISION THING’. In 1897, an envoy from Western Australia was addressing the Victorian Baptist Union Assembly. He painted a graphic picture of a land with long distances, meagre rainfall, a scarcity of water, and a dearth of evangelical preachers. A young theological student, William Kennedy, felt that God was calling him […]
A Pastoral Survival Guide [9]
9. PROFESSIONAL GROWTH. Most mainline Christian denominations now insist that their pastors undergo continuing education, or submit ‘Personal Development Programs.’ This is good: all the professions where people interact with other human beings are expected to sustain a high quality of professional competence. These are reviewed every five years, usually. And, human nature being what […]
A Pastoral Survival Guide [10]
10. INSITUTIONS AND CREATIVITY People like our friend Joe, whose story began this paper, are disadvantaged here. He’s had to make it on his own. And he’s wary of authority-figures who push him around. Since the 1960s institutions have had a bad press. Sociologist Robert Merton says they generally inhibit creativity, and are inherently degenerative. […]
Leadership Insights
by Paul Arnott JULY 2002 BY PAUL ARNOTT STATE DIRECTOR CMS VICTORIA Accountability is a word we shy away from. It ties us down. It requires us to be transparent. Many of us duck it, sometimes subtly, sometimes blatantly. But at the end of the day we are all accountable. The time will come when […]
Obituary
Our church was saddened to learn this week of the death of one of our most valued members, Someone Else. Someone’s passing creates a vacancy that will be difficult to fill. Else has been with us for many years and for every one of those years, Someone did far more than a normal person’s share […]
Augustine’s Call To Ministry
Catholic Church.) One Newsgroup contributor: c/ A Church who uses rules about sin as set down by a medieval weirdo (St. Augustine) Another’s response: Augustine of Hippo was no wierdo. He was a sensualist who was fond of wine and women. He had at least one mistress. He took a mistress when he was 17 […]
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