Leadership
Meeting and Being Met by God
Meeting and Being Met by God Two people meet one another on the sidewalk. Their eyes meet. Will they greet one another, encounter one another, or only pass by silently? One person extends her hand, the other responds. They shake hands, embrace. “How are you getting along?” he asks. “Fine,” she responds. “And you?” The […]
Purpose Driven Debate
Churches Debate Popular Purpose-Driven Model By Lillian Kwon Christian Post Reporter Fri, Mar. 09 2007 08:31 AM ET The widely popular Purpose Driven church model is causing a controversial stir among congregations in the United States. While the model is adopted worldwide across denominations, arguments around it go back to the age-old debate of Christian […]
Church Music
Chuck Swindoll’s response to Graham Kendrick RE: Church Music Thank you, Mac, for sending me a copy of this interview. I’ve read it carefully and I appreciate what he is getting at as he describes the broader need of today’s worshiper. I’m being told that there is a resurgence of theological truth in the music […]
Music and worship: it’s about time to get real
Sunday, March 4, 2007 Music and worship: it’s about time to get real ‘A lot of song-driven worship is shapeless and wanders around until you run out of energy, and then you sit down and do the next thing on the programme.’ By John McNeil of Challenge Weekly, New Zealand Special to ASSIST News Service […]
Pastoral Gifts
To the question: who educates our churches about the role of the minister/pastor in relationship with the church and the wider community? I replied: Just to respond to this one question amongst many, the short answer, I believe, is that we pastors do about… let’s see… 90% of the ‘educating’ on such matters in our […]
What’s the Point of Worship?
During the Season of Lent, for the next three weeks, I’ll focus my e-mail messages on worship as the central art of church. What’s the Point of Worship? Frankly, I just don’t get much out of the Sunday morning thing. A lot of the time, I like the music, particularly when it’s contemporary. But there […]
Mega-church downsizes, cuts non-essential members
Mega-church downsizes, cuts non-essential members WINSTON-SALEM — Julie and Bob Clark were stunned to receive a letter from their church in July asking them to “participate in the life of the church” — or worship elsewhere. “They basically called us freeloaders,” says Julie. “We were freeloaders,” says Bob. In a trend that may signal rough […]
Pastors’ ‘work’ hours
In response to the suggestion that a denomination should encourage its churches and pastors to define hours ‘worked’ by pastors… I replied: There are many questions here. 1. If a pastor has mainly a teaching gift rather than a pastoral one (in the sense of interpersonal pastoral conversations for example) that pastor will rate what […]
Pastors and churches
From a fellow-pastor: 1. The ‘rush from a good sermon’ is one side of the coin [about surviving in pastoral ministry]; the other side is the sense of discomfort, discouragement, anxiety, failure when your sermon lands without a splash and attracts no response or comment.and you hate yourself for wanting the applause of earth not […]
Review of The Forgotten Ways by Alan Hirsch
Review of The Forgotten Ways by Alan Hirsch Published by Brazos Press :: Purchase at Amazon.com or Amazon.ca 294 Pages Website: http://www.theforgottenways.org which also has an excellent weblog which is published by Alan Hirsch Disclaimer: Publisher (Brazos Press) sent me a free review copy but I would have purchased the book regardless. Before you start […]
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