Leadership
Is the Small Suburban Church Dying? (more)
A few random notes: I reckon there are three ingredients needed here: a missional one; a change in thinking functionally about the strengths and weaknesses of a small suburban church, and a change in thinking about leadership in the church – any church – vis-a-vis our clericalist history… I’ve only pastored two ‘small suburban churches’ […]
Excellent church leadership blogs
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Reaching Young Adults
In 1994, a commission convened by the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, with Joseph A. Califano, Jr. as chair, issued a rather alarmist report, “Rethinking Rites of Passage: Substance Abuse on America’s Campuses.” The report invented the phrase “binge drinking.” It noted that one in three college students drinks primarily to […]
On Not Reaching Our Culture Through Our Preaching
Recently I led a group of pastors in a discussion about our preaching. When I asked the pastors, “What areas would you like help with in your preaching?” most of them responded with, “I want help in making connection with my listeners, relating the gospel to their everyday lives.” “I want to preach sermons which […]
N C L S and your church
G’day Has anyone accessed National Church Life Survey (NCLS) 2006 data and/ or done anything with it in your church? I appreciated looking at the congregational summaries for two of the emerging church case studies I have been researching. It has provided helpful real data of how much and where the reality matches up to […]
The Willow Creek Seeker Sensitive model – a failure?
A friend sent me this link this morning. Some interesting comments which provide food for thought… http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BobBurney/2007/10/30/a_shocking_%E2%80%9Cconfession%E2%80%9D_from_willow_creek_community_church?page=full&comments=true Shocking “Confession” from Willow Creek Community Church By Bob Burney Tuesday, October 30, 2007 If you are older than 40 the name Benjamin Spock is more than familiar. It was Spock that told an entire generation of parents […]
Going to Church
It’s About God In our Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony (Abingdon, 1990), Stanley Hauerwas and I said that there was much a-theism in the contemporary church. Atheism? We go about evoking vague spiritual sensibilities in our listeners (preaching), soothing the anxieties of the affluent (pastoral care), keeping the machinery oiled (church administration) as […]
Seniors’ Ministry
A SENIOR’S MINISTRY !! It’s that time of the year again. Senior’s Week, where the aged challenged,pensioners and the silver surfers, gather together for free food,dancing and travel, has just concluded. It’s now the turn of politicians with pensioners being bowled over with truck loads of dollars. It set me thinking, about the church and […]
Stress/burnout Inventory For Pastors
STRESS/BURNOUT INVENTORY FOR PASTORS/LEADERS TICK ONE BOX 1 = YES/SERIOUS/BAD –> 5 = NO/NOT AT ALL/NOT EVER/OK ~~~~ BACKGROUND/FAMILY OF ORIGIN/UNDERLYING FACTORS 1. My family of origin was dysfunctional 1. [ ] 2. [ ] 3. [ ] 4. [ ] 5. [ ] 2. My mother was […]
Worship and Awe (Bill Hybels)
Dear Enews Friend, Every once in a while something happens that takes your breath away…(as recently as an hour ago, walking across the Willow parking lot, driving snow and 30 mph winds took my breath and half of my Seven Eleven coffee away…but I digress) This past weekend Willow held 6 Easter services on the […]
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