Leadership
The Leader As Teacher
Leaders are lifelong learners. This is not news but a fact of life in leadership. The fact that leaders are also teachers may be a new idea to some. The December issue of Fast Company arrived last week and has an interesting article on “16 Ways to Be a Smarter Teacher.” The magazine gave us […]
The Minister As Professional
— Martin E. Marty “The profession of ministry is too important in our culture and society for it to go unmonitored by and uncontributed to by universities.” That was the answer the late Edward H. Levi once gave me when I asked on what rationale he supported the inclusion of “ministerial studies” alongside “religious studies” […]
Strong Leaders
“For many are called, but few are chosen” (Matthew 22:14). “There are many reasons why God wouldn’t want to use many of us, but don’t worry. We’re in good company!” Moses stuttered. David’s armor didn’t fit. John Mark was rejected by Paul. Hosea’s wife was a prostitute. Amos’ only training was in the school of […]
Work At Ground Zero
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 1-180 (General) WORK AT GROUND ZERO by Toby Nelson [Yesterday] I spent hours at Ground Zero, or as Archbishop Egan of NY calls it, Ground Hero. This was my fourth day helping as a volunteer Chaplain. As I walked the many blocks from Penn Station toward Pier 95, the new site for […]
Does The Australian Church Have A Future?
Thoughts for reflection and discussion by Rowland Croucher In two major papers, Christendom, Clericalism, Church And Context[1] and Believing Without Belonging: Church In The Aftermath Of The 60s[2], New Zealand researcher Kevin Ward notes some challenging trends in church life: Church attendance * In New Zealand and Australia, as in all western countries, church attendance […]
Home Churches
Francis Schaeffer, The Church at the End of the Twentieth Century: “Paul continues, “Likewise greet the church that is in their house.” Aquila and Priscilla were then in Rome. But when they were in Asia, as we learn in I Corinthians 16:19, they also had a church in their home. Apparently wherever Priscilla and Aquila […]
Home Churches
Exactly what is meant by the phrase “Home Church?” Home churches, also known as house churches, describe small groups of believers – even as few as 2 or 3 – who gather in the name of Jesus Christ. They are very similar to the earliest churches which were customarily designated in the Scriptures as household […]
Death Of A Church
A new minister in a small Oklahoma town spent the first four days desperately calling on the membership, begging them to come to his first services … He failed. He placed a notice in the local newspapers, stating that as the church was dead, it was his duty to give it a decent Christian burial. […]
8 Ways To Encourage Your Pastor
Sometimes pastors are the loneliest people in the church. Often their hours are long, the pay minimal, the criticism considerable and constant. Feelings of disappointment, discouragement, and defeat may begin to plague the best of them. Paul’s admonition to “serve one another in love” (Gal. 5:13 ) should encourage us to remember our shepherds. Here […]
Belonging Or Believing
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 1-195 (Leadership Issues) Which will come first in the 21st Century . . . BELONGING OR BELIEVING? by Gil Cann Recent research amongst new Christians in the United Kingdom reveals a trend which 21st century churches must take very seriously. Most people who have become Christians there in the last five years […]
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