Leadership
Witnesses and Marketers
Why Jesus didn’t say, “You shall be my marketers to the ends of the earth.” Mark Galli | posted 10/04/2007 09:20AM When we “market,” we try to make a larger audience aware of the value of exchanging a good or service. We assume both parties will benefit from the transaction. Marketing is a wonderful thing. […]
Christians who are honest
In his book Blue Like Jazz Don Miller tells the delightful story of how he and his friends dressed like monks and set up a confessional booth on their notoriously heathen college campus. But instead of hearing other people’s confessions, they were confessing their sins as Christians and the sins of Christendom to anyone who […]
Uniting Church N S W (October 2007)
Saturday, October 6, 2007 Stats show church must act now to build positive future Facing a 17 per cent decline in church attendance since 2001, the Uniting Church in New South Wales needs to shake itself out of its “business as usual” mentality and act strategically if it wants to make a difference to people’s […]
Functional & Non-Functional Christian Leadership
Review | Functional & Non-Functional Christian Leadership Reviewed by Thomas Scarborough During my recent postgraduate studies on Christian leadership in the USA, well over 90% of my seminary’s required reading originated in the Global North. Yet in my personal experience — loosely speaking — there are vast differences between Christian leadership paradigms in the Global […]
Sources and Uses of Power in Ministry (Tim Dyer)
Tim Dyer from John Mark Ministries addressed the sources and uses of power in ministry. The MP3 and powerpoint of it will be an the Whitley Website next week. Tim helped us discuss 4 sources of power in ministry, and how to build trust and maintain integrity in each of these areas: – Knowledge and […]
Youth and the church
Wake Up, Church! The youth are here. But will they stay? Reading an issue of the Presbyterian Record such as this one leaves me with such mixed emotions: joyous amazement at the vitality and accomplishments of youth in their church and community, and frustrated bewilderment that despite their proven abilities, some of them find their […]
Cries from the heart (rural ministry)
Cries from the heart An international meeting of representatives from rural churches has called for solidarity between rural producers and urban consumers to ensure the cooperative production of food and the shortening of the supply chain between producer and consumer. Eighty-one people from 12 nations gathered for the International Rural Church Association’s (IRCA) fourth quadrennial […]
Church Irrelevant
Obviously, rival Sunday attractions also hastened the process of change, but by the end of the century the Church of England had largely become a “members only” organisation. Go to any parish church and the notices (“See Sue for tickets”, “Tell Pamela if you can help”) indicate that everyone knows everyone and newcomers are not […]
Church Attendance – optional
30% of Australian Christians See Attending Church As Optional Reverend Dr. Phillip Hughes, the Senior Research Officer at the Christian Research Association, told Christian Today Australia that over 30 percent of Australian Christians do not see it as necessary to go to church every Sunday even though they identified themselves as Christian. By: Christian Today […]
Church growth keys
Church growth keys: Multiracial, happy, more males active Kirk Hadaway is a veteran church observer of mainline church growth and decline. Recently, Hadaway released the results of a study he completed on mainline churches. Congregations interested in increasing their weekly attendance would do well to make a plan for recruiting new members, become multiracial and […]
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