Leadership
Stress and Burnout Resources
MINISTRY FOR THE LONG HAUL – SOME RESOURCES (Updated October 2010) Dear Pastor and co-leaders Here ¢â‚¬â„¢s a quick guide to some wisdom/research on pastoral stress and burnout. The issues are sometimes not easily understood, and are widespread. In Australia alone there are somewhere between 12 and 14,000 ex-pastors, most of whom left pastoral/parish ministry in […]
Preaching and Politics
When Leaders Rock the Vote In this political season, how much should I say? by Gordon MacDonald In the faith community of my boyhood, our defining hymn could have been “This world is not my home, I’m just a-passing through.” We were relatively disinterested in any public issues except those that had something to do […]
Management
A manager is a person who thinks that if one woman can produce a child in nine months, nine women can produce a child in one month.
The 10 Deadly Sins of Preaching
by John Ortberg (Notes by a netfriend from a talk given at a National Pastor’s Conference) Note: This was originally going to be a list of seven deadly sins, but preaching offers so many temptations that this had to be expand to ten. 1. The temptation to be inauthentic We want to present an image […]
Pastoral Vocation – and another vocation (Wendell Berry)
Wendell Berry In a lecture at Duke University (to an audience of mostly clergy!), said, “It seemed to me that one of the most important things in ministerial training would be to teach them to do something besides be a preacher. Because it’s a bad thing to be professionally trapped and I can’t think of […]
Churches must change to survive the century
From Times Online December 19, 2007 Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent of The Times Britain’s country churches must change if they are to survive through the 21st century, according to the leading art historian Sir Roy Strong. Sir Roy, launching a £10,000 award for the best-adapted village church in tomorrow’s Country Life magazine, says village churches […]
Getting paid to go to church
From Times Online December 19, 2007 Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent of The Times Non-Christians are to be paid £30 a time to go to church under a new research programme to find out why more people do not practise the Christian faith. The new “mystery worshipper” scheme will be modelled on the “mystery shopper” schemes […]
Nine Proposals for Church Renewal
There is a book called ‘Going to the Root: Nine Proposals for church renewal ’ by Christian Smith, who seems to be a house-church Anabaptist type. One reviewer on Amazon comments: “In all his proposals, most readers will feel quite convicted by their dependence upon being a spoonfed benchwarming puppet on Sunday, their wasted resources […]
Ministry Leadership (Bill Hybels)
Leader’s Insight: Yes, Ministry Leadership Is Complex When business people offer free advice, we should say, “It’s not that easy.” by Bill Hybels, Leadership guest columnist My friend runs a company with about 3,000 employees. He says he wants to relax after retirement and lead a church. He said, “It doesn’t have to be a […]
The Small suburban church
One pastor wrote: A church consultant said “Small suburban churches are sucking people dry without producing the future of the religion.” I felt that he described a situation in our church that I am always desperately trying to avoid yet am never quite able to. There are so few people doing so much in the […]
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