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Pastors In Conflict

By and others ⋅ January 5, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Conference ministers to staff who’ve been through conflict By Stan May GERMANTOWN, Tenn. (BP)–The statistics are alarming. Over 100 Southern Baptist ministers are terminated each month. The numbers who leave under pressure swells that total exponentially. These facts awakened in the heart of Steve Wilkes a desire to do more than just bemoan the obvious. […]

Called To Serve: Affirming Church Volunteers

By and others ⋅ January 5, 2003 ⋅ One comment

Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-092 (Leadership Issues) CALLED TO SERVE: AFFIRMING CHURCH VOLUNTEERS Adapted from Jane Brewer Volunteers are a resource with great potential in any organisation, including our churches, if their contribution is managed and understood in ways which bring benefits to all concerned. Volunteering empowers individuals and enriches society in a rapidly changing world. […]

Re-Establishing Sexual Purity In Your Ministry

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by Rick Warren Based on a recent survey at Pastors.com, a significant number of ministers say they’ve viewed online pornography. I want to thank those who answered the survey. Even in a confidential poll, it’s often difficult to be completely honest. But I also want to encourage you to take the next step and get […]

Internet Pornography: A Briar Patch Of Sin

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by Jon Walker There was something God wanted me to confess to Rick Warren, but I was doing my best to avoid it. Rick and I had spent the better part of an afternoon together, and as the day came to a close, I started thinking I was off the hook. We’d just wrapped the […]

On The Road To Collaboration

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EXPLORER…field notes for the emerging church An e-publication of Leadership Network Number 58, March 25, 2002 The ad in the magazine caught my eye. The photograph was of a crowd of people with only one man holding a picket sign that said, “Collaborate or die!” The new skill set required for leadership in the 21st […]

Cardinals Develop Five Point Plan, ‘Zero Tolerance’ Policy

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Religion Today Summaries http://news.crosswalk.com Friday, April 26, 2002 ** Cardinals Develop Five Point Plan, ‘Zero Tolerance’ Policy The summit in Rome has ended, and American cardinals are returning home with a new zero tolerance policy towards pedophile priests. U.S. bishops will determine at their June meeting what action to take with priests who have been […]

Church And Ministry: Some Miscellaneous Notes

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# Churchgoer to pastor after the service: ‘Some Sunday, just for a change, could you please give us a word or two on what, if anything, we’re doing right?’ My calling is to collect the classical and modern wisdom about churches and pastors. Churches today are mostly static or declining, numerically. And when organizations are […]

Leadership And Goal-Setting

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Dear Colleagues, Sometime during my fifteen hours of seminar presentations on leadership last week I happened to mention a goal defining method that comes so natural to me, it wasn’t even in my notes. It caught the imagination of several participants and one even said, “If I do nothing else but practice this method, the […]

100 Marks Of A Healthy Church: Kim Thoday’s comments

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THE 100 MARKS OF A HEALTHY CHURCH Some notes by Kim Thoday. (See the article 100 Marks on this website for the complete list). 1. Accountability: Everyone should be answerable to someone. 2. Administry: Good organisation is like good digestion. 3. Aesthetics: God is the ultimate artist. We are perhaps all familiar with the work […]

Candidates For Ministry

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Here is a list of questions for a verbal one-to-one interview with a candidate for Pastoral Ministry used by a psychologist associated with one of the Baptist Unions in Australia. ~~~ Candidate Interview – Life Story Description of yourself: We have not met before so would you please describe yourself to me. What you look […]

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