Leadership
Belonging
From a friend: A good book – The Search to Belong. Rethinking intimacy, community, and small groups Joseph Myers Zondervan. Myers argues that people stay in churches because they feel they belong, but he sets out 4 levels of belonging.
Church Growth
COMMON QUESTION IN OUR JOHN MARK MINISTRIES SEMINARS: Why do some churches grow? Simplest answer: more people who come once come back again! A pet food manufacturer’s business was going bad, so he sacked all his staff. The new staff didn’t do any better, so he sacked them too. In a conference with the third […]
The Dream (of a Healthy Church)
The Dream (From a Facebook friend) I want to be part of a community that I love and that loves me. A place where we get past the polite niceness, beyond the pretence and the masks, and get really irritated with each other. And then stick at it, and stick together. I want to be […]
Pastoral knowlege/caring
“People don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you care” – John Maxwell
An Obituary For Someone Else
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 […]
Good Friday Service
(Here’s the excellent Good Friday Service some of us attended after Dawn Rowan’s Vigil. More on Dawn – http://dawnrowansaga.blogspot.com/ ). ***** Good Friday – 10 April 2009 Welcome and Call to Worship Jesus challenged the system, and the system amassed its powers against him. Jesus challenged the political leaders, and they used their wiles to […]
Child dedication liturgy
The liturgy that we used for our children, adapted from some of the Seeds (http://www.seeds.org.au) liturgies. As _____’s parents, we thank God for such a precious gift. In front of our family, we accept both the joys and duties of parenthood, promising to love and care for her, and provide a stable and loving home, […]
Another Child Dedication Liturgy
Here is a liturgy I have worked from with my and other children: Dedication Welcome & expression on our behalf of our appreciation to family & friends. This morning is special for ___ & ____ & child ___, together with members of their wider family, & friends – warm welcome. – ___ & ____ are […]
Leadership and Vision
Will Mancini, Church Unique: How Missional Leaders Cast Vision, Capture Culture, and Create Movement (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008) Summarised by Darren Cronshaw In the complexities of a fast-paced world, with overall church attendance declining, where “successful” churches are overbusy with programs, and when we tend to borrow not just sermons but whole vision programs from […]
Stephen Covey, The 8th Habit
Stephen Covey, The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness (New York: Free Press, 2004) Reviewed by Darren Cronshaw The 8th Habit to build around the 7 Habits Stephen Covey is internationally respected as a teacher of leadership and organisational principles. His most popular book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, has sold 15 million […]
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