Leadership
Sins Of Leadership
MinistryHealth: Support and Resources For Pastors and Christian Ministry Professionals Thomas F. Fischer, M.Div., M.S.A., Editor Seven Deadly Sins Of Leadership Greg Morris Number 310 “True leadership means to receive power from God and to use it under God’s rule to serve people in God’s way.” Leighton Ford “First pride, then the crash. The bigger […]
How To Tell If Your Church Is Healthy (Even Though It Looks Sick)!
By Gil Cann No! This is not a repeat of an article you may have read in this magazine last year, (Issue 3, 2000). It was called ‘How To Tell If Your Church Is Sick (while it still looks healthy)! This sequel is written for two reasons. First, the response to the article indicates that […]
Should Churches Own Manses?
A friend wrote to ask whether their church should sell their residential properties… Briefly: 1. Healthy churches have a manageable debt (otherwise if everything’s paid off people get slack) 2. They don’t put money into residential bricks and mortar if they expect their pastor/s to stay any reasonable length of time. That money can be […]
How To Survive In Ministry In The New Millennium
———————————————— by Alan Nunn [Recently] the church presented me with a plaque that marked the completion of 40 years in the service of the churches. As I look back on those years I have a number of regrets and one of them is that no one gave me the kind of help which, I now […]
What Does A Healthy Church Look Like?
I began to write this on St.Patrick’s Day – 17th March 2001 – the anniversary of that great missionary’s death about 460 A.D. Patrick was one of the greatest Christians who ever lived – a man of prayer, a man of the Scriptures, and with incredible faith and evangelistic energy, and above all a deep […]
‘There’s Life In The Old Church Yet’
A NOTED 19th-century academic and prelate – it might have been Dr Spooner of Spoonerism fame; I’ve misplaced my source – once descended from the pulpit after preaching for an hour, stopped, turned, and climbed back up. “Of course,” he told his startled listeners, “every time I said Aristotle, I meant St Paul.” One can […]
Committees
The church congregation decided to build a new church. They asked the deacons to look into the cost of materials and land. After the deacons got price quotes, they realized they wouldn’t have enough funds to cover all the expenses without getting a loan. The interest rate was very high, so that was out of […]
Adolescent Preachers’ Kids
Ministry Health Those Adolescent Preacher’s Kids Thomas F. Fischer, M.Div., M.S.A. Number 317 Those Adolescent Preacher’s Kids Thomas F. Fischer, M.Div., M.S.A. Number 317 Adolescents: Run Amuck? Parenting isn’t getting any easier. Youth continue to be exposed to increasingly more things at increasingly earlier ages with increasingly worrisome results. Increased frequency and severity of violent […]
Pride Sloth And Loneliness
Thomas F. Fischer, M.Div., M.S.A., Director Ministry Health, LLC http://ministryhealth.net >>>>>>>From Where Does This Loneliness Come? Gilbert Meilaender in Faith and Faithfulness: Basic Themes in Christian Ethics (Notre Dame, IN, University of Notre Dame Press, 1991) perhaps best pinpoints the origin of loneliness. In chapter three, “Human Nature: The Sinful Human Being,” Meilaender relates loneliness […]
The Preacher’s Lament
This is what your Pastor really thinks… . If I express myself on a subject, I’m trying to run things. . If I’m silent, I’m dumb or have lost interest. . If I’m often at my office (preparing sermons or studying), why don’t I get out and learn what’s going on. . If I’m out […]
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