Leadership
A Suggested Pastor
First read http://jmm.org.au/articles/21674.htm **** Thanks, Rowland. I’d add Rodney Stark’s “The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History” to the church history section (from my NT perspective — many riveting insights into everyday life in the first century world, and especially the cities; has direct relevance for how we interpret and preach Paul’s letters, especially). […]
A Suggested Pastor
More on this: http://jmm.org.au/articles/21674.htm Another worthwhile angle when looking for some history books that belong on the list is to look for the ones where history overlaps with another discipline. So, to link to my pet discipline, I reckon that “A Brief History of Christian Worship” by James F White would be a worthy addition […]
Good books for pastors
September 2008 The following is designed as an aid to help recommend some thoughtful books to Victorian Baptist pastors. Of course anyone is welcome to use it. We admit it has gaps. In fact we are sure that it will have glaring omissions largely because we have intentionally tried to keep the number of books […]
Worship: Forward to Basics
Forward to Basics. I like that. It could become the mission statement of a the worship committee acting as curators of the worship space working on new approaches to doing worship. Someone in a book I read recently described his top 5 qualities of worship in a postmodern culture as authenticity, community, abandonment of dogma, […]
Leadership: Law and Grace
by Thomas Scarborough During the course of my postgraduate studies in Christian leadership (now four years), I have gradually come to see Church leadership in terms of LAW AND GRACE. The distinction between Law and Grace is of course one of the most fundamental distinctions in the Bible: “You are not under the law, but […]
How Important Is Church Membership?
by John Piper 1 Corinthians 12:12-31 12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body-Jews or Greeks, slaves or free-and all were made […]
Re-Marketing the Church
“Re-Marketing the Church” by John Koessler John Koessler Zondervan’s blog occasionally features essays from our authors. Today’s essay is by John Koessler, author of A Stranger in the House of God. USA TODAY recently published the results of a survey by LifeWay research which indicates that a majority of Americans who do not attend church […]
Young People and Today’s Church
Avoiding unChristian Preaching By David Kinnaman February 2008 Being a Christian in America is harder than ever. People are expressing more hostility, doubt, frustration and skepticism toward Christianity – and this is particularly true among young people. Their perceptions of Christians are filled with images of judgmentalism, hypocritical lifestyles and political activism. They also believe […]
Who Can You Trust, If Not Your Minister?
From my (Australian) Churches of Christ mate, Alan Matheson (who’s a better prophet than punctuator, but I’ve left it as it came): (My comment, FWIW: the secular press and entertainment industry have done an excellent job in skewing public perceptions about clergy). **** Hi Rowland Thought the following might be of interest. WHO CAN YOU […]
Welcoming homosexuals
Then there was a church which had a problem: Every Sunday people in wheelchairs from a local hospice came to church en-masse. The wheelchairs were untidy, they blocked up the isles, the wheelchair users took ages to get into position, stopping others getting to their seats quickly, then took ages to get out again at […]
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