Leadership
Healthy Church D N A
I came across this today…. Rowland. Church Check List: If your church can say, “yes” to any of the following, we can help! * Our church is growing but we don’t have a shared vision that most members support. * Our church is an older church and we are not keeping up to the changes […]
The Starfish and the Spider
Ori Brafman is co-author of one of the hottest selling leadership books on the market ‹ The Starfish and The Spider. About the book… If you cut off a spider ¹s head, it dies; if you cut off a starfish ¹s leg it grows a new one, and that leg can grow into an entirely new starfish. […]
Watered Down Christianity (Kierkegaard)
WATERED DOWN CHRISTIANITY I’ve said it before, I say it again. Few writers are as tough on us clergy as Soren Kierkegaard, that melancholy Dane. However, few writers better remind me of the high calling to which we clergy have been summoned. Kierkegaard, here in his Journals, notes that in his day clergy had moved […]
Great Managers
The Cabinet and I have read a book together. The book is published by the Gallup Organization and is the result of a massive study of middle level managers and how they contribute to effective organizations. Seen from one perspective, District Superintendents are middle level managers. First Break All the Rules is a guidebook for […]
Pastors as Visionary Leaders
Weems lists the phases of thriving and declining organizations: original vision, growth and building the organization, maintenance, decline, recognized decline, crises or death. I feel that in the United Methodist Church we are in the period of at last recognizing our decline. I hope this leads to a crisis that provokes change and growth. Vision […]
Church Attendance
*Sightings* 10/22/07 On Wuthnow — Martin E. Marty Demographers, statisticians, sociologists, and some theologians serve the culture and the religious institutions within it by measuring the stated beliefs and observable religious behavior of citizens. Church attendance is one of the most conspicuous and measurable of these behaviors. Yes, we know that counting church members and […]
Preaching feedback
GROWING AS PREACHERS THROUGH LAY FEEDBACK TO OUR SERMONS A few years ago, John McClure had a good idea for a useful book for us preachers. Professor McClure interviewed a group of master preachers and teachers of preachers, seeking their best advice on various aspects of the homiletical task. I was particularly struck by his […]
Top Urban Ministry Blogs
by Thomas Scarborough The name Ray Bakke is synonymous with urban ministry. “I want to tell stories”, he says, because it is stories which “helped revolutionize my theology of the city” (Bakke 1997:11). Many such stories, today, are told in urban ministry blogs (web logs). With this in mind, the purpose of this article is […]
Single Women and the Church
I read an article “Single Women and the Church” with great interest. I live in UK and am a 63 year old widow – fit and active, with many interests including research, photography etc. I belonged to C.E. church (have also been in R.C.) and in both churches have experienced exclusion, being treated almost like […]
Preaching
PREACHING: CHARACTER AND CREDIBILITY When Aristotle was offering, in his Rhetoric the “available means of persuasion,” including reason, emotion, and the character of the speaker, Aristotle listed the character of the speaker as the most important. In fact, a later rhetorician would define a good speech as, “a good person speaking well.” The credibility of […]
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