Leadership
A Wedding Vow
From a pastor-friend: “I … promise you … to love you with all my heart, mind and strength. I promise to be faithful to you, now and forever. I promise to be your lover, companion and friend. I promise to be your ally in conflict, your greatest fan and your toughest adversary. I will be […]
Brethren (Roger Shuff)
Roger Shuff’s Searching for the True Church: Brethren and Evangelicals in Mid-Twentieth-Century England (Paternoster, 2005) Argues that Brethren decline since WW2 attributable to a policy of introspection amid rapid social change, resurgence of pandenominational evangelicalism, nonrealisation of an imminent parousia, and a tradition of local church autonomy. I would add, re Australia, a lack of […]
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Wedding Vows…
Wedding Vows: My practice has been to encourage couples to create their own wording-of-vows and response to legal requirements, within three broad constraints: 1. I am not married to anyone else; 2. You (name) are the one I want to marry; 3. I will be faithful/loyal to/ love you alone as long as I/we live… […]
Pastoral faithfulness
Weekly Message from Bishop Will Willimon 10.16.2006 Earlier last week, the clergy of the North Alabama Conference met at Sumatanga in our annual Bishop’s Convocation on Ministry. Our theme was “More,” in recognition of our revised Conference Vision Statement that now includes, “growing more disciples.” Here were some of my opening comments to our gathered […]
Men and Church
Jensen plan to attract men to church Linda Morris Religious Affairs Writer October 17, 2006 MEN have gone missing from Sydney churches, but to ordain women as priests would flout scriptural authority and harm the church’s mission, according to the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, Peter Jensen. Opening the Sydney church’s annual synod, Dr Jensen said […]
Rethinking the System
Rethinking the System Lyle Schaller has done it again, has written another hard-hitting, utterly honest book that consists of the harvest from his great insights on church growth and decline. His The Ice Cube is Melting (Abingdon, 2005) is a provocative, evocative book. One of his seminal insights is that the United Methodist Church has […]
The Problem With Preaching
The Problem With Preaching By David Allis September 2006 Preaching is a big problem. After many years of preaching, listening to sermons, studying the scriptures, participating in ‘church’ leadership & studying the western church (in New Zealand), I’m becoming convinced that preaching often does more harm than good. Preaching, as it is practiced in modern […]
When Good becomes the enemy of the Best
When ¯ ¿ ½GOOD ¯ ¿ ½ Becomes the Enemy of ¯ ¿ ½BEST ¯ ¿ ½ By David Allis 16th December 2005 I have always thought that ¯ ¿ ½good ¯ ¿ ½ and ¯ ¿ ½best ¯ ¿ ½ were very close together. When I was at school, on the occasions that I got a ¯ ¿ ½good ¯ ¿ ½ result in a test or exam, it was usually very close to the ¯ ¿ ½best ¯ ¿ ½ result. In a […]
A Book For Pastors
Celia Bowring, ‘We’re in this Together’, Authentic Media, 2006. Here’s a book waiting to be written – a practical handbook ‘about, by and for women who are married to Christian leaders.’ Celia is one of those – for many years she coordinated a national leaders’ wives’ network in the U.K. Pastors’/leaders’ wives’ roles have been […]
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