Leadership
A Suburban Snapshot
A recent survey of 130 homes in a Melbourne suburb asked people (among other things) if they did anything to “nurture their spiritual side”, to which 50% responded that they did. Answers included going to church (about 40% of those who answered ‘yes’), going to a Buddhist Temple, yoga, doing social service, tarot cards. Some […]
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Good Hymns
Another great song from Iona: Christ’s is the world in which we move, Christ’s are the folk we’re summoned to love, Christ’s is the voice which calls us to care, And Christ is the one who meets us here. To the lost Christ shows his face; To the unloved he gives his embrace; To those […]
Being Christ’s Church In A Consumerist Culture
William Willimon writes: Being Christ’s Church In A Consumerist Culture Eugene Peterson is just about the best and most eloquent biblical interpreter that we have today. He keeps urging us to keep close to the theological purposes of the church and its ministry. We are not merely commanded to reach out to the world, we […]
Theology & Music
The sentiments of Soren Kierkegaard about music in worship: “How very trivial the things that have been written in the matter of the hymn book” (this was in 1847!). “For a hymn to be good demands a worshipping community that gives itself to God through heartfelt the singing of the hymns”.
Being Families and Being Clergy at the Same Time
When we were planning the worship services for Annual Conference, I was told that it was the custom in North Alabama Services of Ordination to have a spouse, a mother, or significant other, to stand beside the kneeling ordinand and to place hands upon the shoulders of the one being ordained while the bishop and […]
Hillsong-type songs: a response
First this: The problem aesthetes on the one hand and theological sophisticates have on the other with Hillsong-type songs is that they are mostly not very brilliant either musically or theologically (understatement of the year!). Online net-friend responds: As a worship leader, I do a lot of Hillsong music at our church. They touch people’s […]
Small churches find they must change or die
Written by Jeremy Gray, Religion News Service Monday, 08 May 2006 When Leonard Irvin became pastor of Mount Signal Baptist Church in Chelsea, Ala., in 2003, only about 10 people were attending its Sunday services. At its peak in the late 1960s, the church drew an average of 125. Attendance may never return to that […]
Modern Hillsong-type songs
From a pastor-friend, At the request of one of our dying parishioners I’ll play a couple of Hillsong songs at her funeral, namely Shout to the Lord and Jesus What a Beautiful Name. They brought her a great degree of comfort and strength. I get the impresssion that in some christian quarters that Hillsong songs […]
Pastors’ Accountability Groups
From a pastor-friend: If you want to set up an accountability group, I recommend you have a look at Gary Kinnaman’s Leaders That Last for some pointers. (The book’s subtitle is How Covenant Friendships Can Help Pastors Thrive.) Those who want a more intense accountability type group, might have a look, for example, at the […]
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