Leadership
Looking like Laura Bush
From the blog of a 19 year old female uni student: “I was forced to sit quietly (and very politely refrain from standing on my chair and yelling about false messiahs and made-up Gods) inside a BAPTIST church this evening. My bloody mother had some choir thing that I was informed was compulsory to attend. […]
Homosexuality and Church Conflicts
From an article I’ve just read in Christian Century (‘Explosive Issues’ by Carl Dudley & Hugh Halverstadt, March 3, 1999, p. 236): ‘Speed Leas, an experienced consultant in church crises, describes the highest level of conflict as an emotional condition in which one side wants to destroy the opposition… He identifies a slightly lower level […]
Pastoral Leadership and Trust
Pastoral Leadership and Trust Lovette Weems reflects upon pastors as leaders of change in the congregation. The prerequisite for leading for change is trust: The first thing that leaders must create is trust. People give out of trust. They must have leaders who are creditable to them. “A leader wins trust slowly, but can lose […]
Anointing With Oil
In the South Yarra congregation, we have three main times when we anoint with oil. 1. Accompanying prayers for healing, as per James 5:14. This can have at least three variations too. Sometimes we include a special rite of healing in the middle of our Sunday service. This is rare, but we did have one […]
The Church and delivery of public services (Part 1 of 2)
Soundings No. 40 24 July 2006 The church and delivery of public services – Part 1 of 2 by Wilma Gallet The past 10-15 years has seen the emergence of competitive tendering and the development of a market model in the provision of a range of human services including aged care, employment services, child care, […]
House Churches – the latest
“Statistic: U.S. House Church Movement Bigger than 2nd Largest Denomination” -by Jim Rutz, WorldNetDaily. The little guy is back. For the first time in 1,700 years, simple churches meeting in homes are once again a factor in human events. In many countries, they’re booming so strongly that critics and opponents can no longer brush them […]
Church of the higher tech
The Rev. Mike Laird has the church meet in a movie theater for the same reason he leads a theology discussion group in a nearby bar: People feel at ease in the environment. By G. Jeffrey MacDonald | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor DANVERS, MASS. – The Rev. Mike Laird is standing in front […]
Biblical Leaders
Weekly Message from Bishop Will Willimon 06.12.2006 In God’s Own Way, In God’s Own Good Time As Chair of the General Conference Commission on the Ministry, I’ve been reading lots of books on the crisis of leadership in the church today. I have been edified by the work of Lewis Parks and Bruce Birch in […]
Mainline Churches
Amplifying the mainline Over the past nine years, prominent Religious Right leaders have appeared more than 40 times on the major Sunday morning new talk programs. But the principal leaders of the UCC, United Methodist Church, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A), Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), American Baptist Churches, African Methodist Episcopal […]
Why pay the clergy?
Netfriend 1: Paul was a tentmaker. Why can’t modern clergy also have a real job like Paul? 2: I have been “full time” clergy and also a “tentmaker”. Rowland (3): So have I – and a combination of the two… 2: I currently have a “real job” and earn nothing from my work as clergy […]
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