Leadership
Stations of Creation
“All Heaven Shouted for Joy” Job 38:7 There are two major celebrations in the annual church calendar … Christmas and Easter. These celebrations are shared with the wider culture and they address the mysteries that surround birth and death. We need a poetic language to address these mysteries. At St. Ives Uniting Church we have […]
Call to Priesthood
“Many claim to have heard a ‘calling’ to the priesthood, but what they don’t tell you is that it’s a small inner voice reminding them that it’s year-round indoor work with no heavy lifting.” – Terry Pratchett
The Future of the Australian Baptists
(From Steve Addison) (http://www.steveaddison.net/2008/11/03/the-future-of-the- australian-baptists.html ) I’ve just finished an unofficial report on the future of my denomination, the Baptist Union of Australia. The good news is the BUA has a future. The bad news is if that future is more of the same then the Baptist are headed for long term, gradual decline in […]
House Churches: 15 Theses. Wolfgang Simson
God is changing the Church, and that, in turn, will change the world. Millions of Christians around the world are aware of an imminent reformation of global proportions. They say, in effect: “Church as we know it is preventing Church as God wants it.” A growing number of them are surprisingly hearing God say the […]
To church or not to church
October 21, 2008 PC(USA) researcher studies the ‘spiritual but not religious’ by Jerry L. Van Marter Presbyterian News Service LOUISVILLE — One of the first and most frequent statements Americans hear when conversation turns to religion is “I’m spiritual but not religious?” Growing alienation of young people from organized churches and the general decline in […]
Give Attention to Reading
“Give attention to reading! For most of us, including people who have spent a lifetime in academic and church work, reading is the one thing we only allow ourselves to do as a kind of luxury when the urgent things are done. Part of the problem is that in modern Western culture reading feels like […]
Best Practices in a Healthy Church
The following was submitted to a Pentecostal Church with whom I’ve been consulting: Dear friends I’ve been asked to provide a report for the Board. I’d suggest looking at some or all of the following: 1. WHAT DOES A HEALTHY CHURCH LOOK LIKE? 100 Marks of a Healthy Church – http://jmm.org.au/articles/8825.htm Case-Study of a healthy […]
Spiritual Abuse
DECLARATION OF PURPOSE REGARDING SPIRITUAL ABUSE AIM & PURPOSE OF THIS DOCUMENT This document is an attempt by this church to identify, highlight and unreservedly stand against any form of spiritual abuse being practiced, permitted or tolerated within our community and/or influence, and to make a public declaration of purpose to this end before this […]
Church ‘Best Practices’
Submitted by a thoughtful pastor: 1. ensure that at least 10% of the church budget goes to the poor 2. ensure that at least 10% of the church budget goes to local mission initiatives 3. ensure that staff do not work more then 50 hours pw 4. ensure that all committees are disbanded 5. ensure […]
Churches and Change
Hi Rowland, Phyllis Tickle in her book “The Great Emergence’ states that every five hundred years the Church finds itself going through a ‘reformation’ the author says, “every five hundred the church has a giant rummage sale” now this can never be described as a practise as such, but more an ‘awareness’ this word is […]
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