Leadership
Healthy Churches
A brief resum © of my co-authored book ‘How to Close your Church without even Trying’! If I had to summarise ten churches’ best practices, I would include: 1. Handling diversity well 2. Encouraging shared, team ministry 3. Developing genuine, biblical servant leadership 4. Fostering good administrative practices 5. Having a vision for growth 6. Using […]
Churches’ Best Practices
Churches’ Best Practices: (From a thoughtful friend) 1. Encourage and practise openness and truth, even when it might seem to affirm those with a barrow to push, or ‘wash our dirty linen in public’. This means having well advertised processes of complaint and suggestions to the leadership. 2. Embrace diversity in ‘non core’ Christian theology, […]
Church Best Practices
From another thoughtful friend: “Best Practices” could mean several things, but I will voice a few which may not qualify as “practices” but certainly contribute to the culture of the church. **A tremendous greeting commonly practiced in India is “Namaste”….The Spirit in Me honors the Spirit in You. A great base for a church….or other […]
Healthy Churches
Another, from a retired pastor: When we retired we visited a number of churches, looking for one to become involved with. This experience was a bit of a shock. The following are the matters that were somewhat of a measuring stick of things we were looking for. These are not in any particular order. We […]
Staff Retreats
Dear friends, Here’s a little thing I wrote some time ago for a church considering the regular practice of Staff Retreats: 1. Why go away on regular group retreats? In principle, because Jesus did (Luke 5:15-16), and encouraged his disciples to do the same (Mark 6:30-31). The first text suggests Jesus had sometimes something more […]
Public Preaching
*Sightings* 3/24/08 — Martin E. Marty *Public Pulpits* by friend Steven M. Tipton of Emory is a timely, historically-informed analysis of “Methodists and Mainline Churches in the Moral Argument of Public Life.” The “pulpit” is largely metaphoric here, because Tipton’s accent is on policy-making and headquarters’ involvements in politics, but these inform preachers. The book […]
360 Degree Feedback
360 Degree Feedback: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly What is 360 Degree Feedback? By Susan M. Heathfield, About.com Leadership DevelopmentBest Australian leadership training Most researched leadership coursehttp://www.theleadershipchallenge.com.au 360 Degree FeedbackA Little Team Building Goes a Long Way for Your Business. Find It Now!http://www.business.com 360 performance appraisalDone quickly and accurately! See for yourself. 14 […]
The Church Wrecker’s Guide
By Thomas Scarborough Christian leadership guru Bobby Clinton writes: “I have been particularly amazed at how much conflict there is in Churches… I would guess that most leaders spend the majority of their time and energy dealing with conflict” (The Making of a Leader, pg. 162). While I wouldn’t fit the profile of “most leaders”, […]
The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make
The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make: Hans Finzel Although leadership is the hot topic on conference agendas and book tours, most people who find themselves in positions of leadership have little or no training for the role. So they wing it, following examples set for them by others, and continue to make the same old […]
Baptist Union of Victoria Code of Ethics
Baptist Union of Victoria Code of Ethics Companion Guide Updated October 2007 Background In April 2004 the Executive Council of the Baptist Union of Victoria (BUV) established a Professional Standards Group (PSG) to examine processes related to the education of its pastors and congregations and to review the BUV’s complaints procedures. The PSG determined that […]
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